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@syd If you are in a deficit, you'll lose weight. But you actually want to lose fat (and at least keep your muscle), this is what resistance training helps with. Cardio is very good for you if you want to live long and healthy. Ideally you eat healthy (on a deficit only when you want to lose...

@velocity What if your knees hyperextend by themselves (hypermobility)? I don't even like standing with locked knees because of that.

@woollybear Maybe not. But you would lose less muscle than if you didn't even resistance train.

@woollybear Not sure how high your protein goal is, most small women would not really miss any gains with like 80g. It's all just different stimuluses: deficit makes your body want to eat up muscle, resistance training makes it want to increase it, protein also signals that it should build. If...

@woollybear But your workout is not going to waste if you don't hit your protein goal for the day. Your muscles still got stimulus to get bigger. Protein helps maximize thr effectiveness, but if you got 80% of the effect and don't force yourself to eat stuff that you don't even want and is over...