IF YOU’RE TAKING a GLP-1 drug, you probably have questions about everything that comes along with your weight loss. These medications can make exercise—particularly the type of training meant to build and maintain muscle—more challenging. But if you have the right plan, it’s not impossible to stay strong and lean.
That’s why we designed the new Men’s Health program, the GLP-1 Muscle Growth Plan. The 4-week workout series is informed by experts to provide you with a roadmap to keep your gains while considering the unique needs that come with weight loss drugs, because you can’t just let the meds do all the work. Rather than pushing for huge gains, though, your goal will be to keep what muscle and strength you’ve already got.
That can’t be achieved through marathon weight room sessions that push you to beyond the brink of exhaustion—since you’re working with a lower calorie intake, you need to be more strategic than that. Here’s what you need to know about the program that will give you the blueprint. GLP-1 DRUGS HELP to make users feel less hungry, get full faster, and have fewer cravings.
That means you’re probably eating less and in a caloric deficit, which is essential for losing weight—but not the best for consuming the high-protein diets people typically associate with strength training. You’ll need to make these four adjustments to your workouts to have success. Lower calories in means less energy out.
You won’t be able to push the same types of daily training programs than you would if you weren’t on a GLP-1. In this program, you’ll train three days per week, with two to three working sets per movement. Since you won’t be doing a ton of reps, you’ll need to make them count.
When you take on these workouts, you’ll do so with an aggressive reps-in-reserve (RIR) approach. Even though you’re taking your foot off the gas pedal compared to standard training plans, you should still aim to make gains throughout the program. That means adding more reps, weight, or time under tension from one week to the next.
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