Training through a GLP-1 block without losing the muscle
Appetite drops, so intake drops, so lean mass goes with the fat. Here's the protein floor and the lifting rule I hold everyone to.
The failure mode on a GLP-1 is not the drug. It's that eating becomes optional, and then it becomes rare, and eight weeks later you're lighter and weaker and calling that a win.
Protein floor first. One gram per pound of goal bodyweight, taken in the two windows where your appetite still works — usually morning and immediately post-training. If you can only get two real meals down, make both of them protein-anchored and stop pretending about the third.
Lifting: three full-body sessions, heavy enough that the last two reps are honest. Not five. Three. On a caloric deficit, volume is what you cut and intensity is what you protect. The stimulus that keeps muscle is load, not sweat.
Cardio stays at a conversational pace and under 40 minutes. If you're doing intervals in a deficit on a peptide that's already suppressing intake, you are borrowing recovery you don't have.
Pair it with the growth axis if you can. Sleep depth is the whole reason that pairing exists — it's the difference between losing fat and losing the year.
You don't need more sessions. You need the same three sessions you actually show up for.
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