Semaglutide and exercise performance — my results so far

rick_sfbay said:

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible.

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

rick_sfbay said:

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible.

Coming at rick_sfbay’s question from a different direction. Training does two things here and only one of them is on the scale. It protects lean mass — which is the reason to do it — and it contributes modestly to the deficit, which is the reason people start and then quit when the arithmetic disappoints them. In a deep deficit, resistance work is the priority and high-volume cardio competes with recovery.

One concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

Following on from rick_sfbay — and this may be the naive question:

What training is actually for during a large deficit, because framing it as calorie burn sets people up to quit when the arithmetic disappoints them?

BethLabQueen said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.