Squats raise test levels??????

Ok I think I read somewhere on this site in a thread , that certain exercises built or raise the amount of testosterone you produce??? Well what are the major exercises to do these? I know squats are one of them , But could you please tell me all of them.

squats and deadlifts are the major ones, to some extent all of the basic powerlifting movements will boost test but you're not going to get the same benefits from say bench press as you do for squat because when you squat and DL you are incorporating your entire body and CNS to a much more extreme degree

Mikeswift has it. Squat, Deads and Bench, but squats are the best. There was a study that showed that if you do squats, your arms will get bigger because of this effect. (Or at least the skinny dudes in the study gained.)

Bump Mikeswift and doctorwill, squats really are the king.

Well at school there was a personal trainer as the substitute for my metals tech class , and he was talkin and all this stuff. Well from what he said im going to try to get 200 pushups everyday regardless of what I do in school. Because we dont really even workout that hard at school. Plus ive already posted what our workout is

this is not accurate information...

This is a widely spready misunderstaing that exercise increases testosterone levels. Actually, prolonged exercise decreases the production of testosterone by about 10% or so. There have been numerous studies that have reported post-exercise increases in serum testosterone levels, butr, what they're measuring is only a temporary false increase in test levels. The reasoning behind this is because exercise causes significant decreases in plasma volume, hepatic plasma flow and the metabolic clearance rate of testosterone. For this reason alone one should always measure testosterone levels in a rested state during the early morning as opposed to post exercise. A large percentage of the testosterone secreted daily occurs during sleep and levels peak during the early morning and decrease throughout the day by 25% to an evening minimum. This is just a short term effect of exercise and test levels.

Sorry to burst your hopes ladies and gents but its not that easy.... :fyi:



Mr.Huge

damn... Thats one I've kept around for years.- thanks for the myth buster mr.huge.

interesting I just read and article that clearly stated that squats increased test levels. The study you're quoting seems to be referring to the amount of test in the system following the exercise, what we're referring to is the overall increase of test in the body after subjecting it to including squats in your training regimen verses not including them. I'd be curious to hear some others reply...