Muscle Repair & Water Weght

Urbancowbarn

I know that when a beginner starts strength training that there can be some water retention after a workout. Is this something that continues as your body gets used to working out? Or should I anticipate water weight every time my muscles repair from strength training?

AnnPT77

Urbancowbarn wrote: »

I know that when a beginner starts strength training that there can be some water retention after a workout. Is this something that continues as your body gets used to working out? Or should I anticipate water weight every time my muscles repair from strength training?

It doesn't keep increasing and increasing, or quick-cycle on and off (for me), if that's what you're asking.

Some years, I weight train in my rowing off season, keeping the workout progressive enough that repair is pretty constant: Start lifting in late Fall, stop in Spring.

I did this while logging meticulously during weight loss. I saw a couple of pounds of otherwise unexplained weight gain after I started, and a couple of pounds of otherwise unexplained weight loss after I stopped. For me, it seems to stick around while I'm training regularly/progressively, but not cycle on and off on workout days vs. non workout days or anything like that. (I weigh every day in the AM, BTW.)

I can't speak to whether it would stick around for 10 years of solid training, though, nor whether others' bodies behave differently.

sardelsa

For me it usually comes on if I increase my workout volume or after a break, about 2-3lbs. It stays on until I stop training, but I wouldn't say it keeps increasing.

SonyaCele

it comes and goes for me, depending on the intensity of my training. But its no big deal. Dont worry about water weight, its just our body doing what its supposed to do.

RoxieDawn

It comes and goes for me as well. Its not just from training/muscle repair, its from my diet as well. When we eat carbs we retain water, additional sodium on top of my normal causes me to retain as well; being female adds another variable to water retention/fluctuation.

I trend my weight daily using an app so I don't worry about it too much.

100_PROOF_

Comes and goes for me