On: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

[timr]

It's a bummer to be terribly misinformed, but I'll take my own muscle mass gains as a consolation prize. We can't have everything, I guess.

[enraged_camel → timr]

It's good that you got stronger (for the reasons I explained). But unless you are doing some hardcore yoga, it is extremely unlikely that you actually gained muscle mass. (As proof, you can look at any long-term yoga instructor who wasn't muscular to begin with.)

[timr → enraged_camel]

Or, you know...as proof, I can use the gains I've measured in my own body.

No, that can't be it...

[enraged_camel → timr]

I addressed this in my original post:

"unless you were so unfit when you began yoga that even simple poses worked the hell out of your muscles."

[timr → enraged_camel]

I was not unfit when I began yoga.

[enraged_camel → timr]

Okay, so let's get down to specifics. Two questions:

1. How did you measure your lean muscle mass? 2. How did you conclude that it increased due to yoga and not something else?

[jacques_chester → timr]

Which are? Genuinely curious.