On a GLP-1, the weight that leaves should not take your strength with it.
Semaglutide and tirzepatide lower body mass faster than tendon, bone and balance adapt. About a quarter of the mass lost is lean tissue, the same fraction as any rapid loss. In the one trial that added exercise to the medication, hip and spine density held where the medication alone reduced it. The prescription usually arrives with an instruction to exercise and nothing else. Alodaptive pairs it with a licensed physical therapist who programs progressive loading by dose phase, sets effort by reps in reserve rather than heart rate, and times your sit-to-stand every four weeks, so the quality of the loss is measured rather than assumed.
Illustrative reads. Your plan is generated from your own intake, and a licensed PT tailors the clinical calls.
How Alodaptive is tuned to GLP-1 medication.
The medication is on the record
Agent, dose, the date of each step, the weeks that were rough, and your weight trajectory as you logged it, in one record your therapist reads before every answer.
Loading leads the week
Progressive resistance work two to four times a week, effort set by reps in reserve, with loading for bone. On a low-intake day the volume is cut by a set amount; the session is not dropped.
Reassessed every four weeks
Timed five-times sit-to-stand, grip where you have a dynamometer, and your own functional scale, each compared with your prior capture. Your therapist signs any change to the plan.
Your scale and watch are context
Weight trend, resting heart rate and walking speed are read against your own baseline, which resets at each dose step. They inform your therapist. They never change the plan on their own.
What a week feels like.
One move a day
One movement each morning, sized to that day's energy and appetite, with the reason stated.
Strength, walking, recovery
In the proportions the dose phase calls for, reviewed by your therapist each week.
Questions answered from your record
Is this fatigue the medication or the training. Should I lift on a nausea day. Answers come from your whole record, with general published guidance on the medication where it helps; anything about your own dose goes to your prescriber.
Alodaptive works alongside the physician who prescribes your medication. We share general, published information about GLP-1 medications and exercise, always as general information and never as medical advice. We do not prescribe, adjust or advise on your own dose, do not set protein targets, and route anything outside a physical therapist's scope back to your prescriber. General wellness movement never treats a condition; condition-specific programming is built and approved by a licensed physical therapist.
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