[Pro Cycling’s Secret to Staying Lean?? | Ozempic / Semaglutide Not Banned by WADA for Athletes] Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsys, and other forms of Semaglutide drugs (including Tirzepatide) are insanely popular and effective at helping people lose weight. Studies show Semaglutide causes an …

Interesting! I take 1 mg/week. I’m OK on the bike, certainly not as fit as I’d like; but more to the point, not as fit as I feel like I should be. I wonder if the Ozempic could be one of the culprits (in addition to other things within my control). I guess that’s just one more motivation point to tr…

That’s actually an interesting anecdote. GLP1-RAs are known to impair hepatic gluconeogenesis… and hepatic gluconeogenesis is quite important in higher intensity endurance exercise. I wonder if the experience your friend had is related to that effect. Also, I forgot to mention it previously, but th…

[image] cnidos: But many (most?) people still lose muscle mass while on it. Isn’t that because the population is mostly sedentary? Wouldn’t the same population also lose the same muscle mass if they calorie restricted an equivalent amount? A friend is on Ozempic and he has been losing around …

TLDR: Wegovy was a horrible experience, you couldn’t pay me to take that drug again. Figured I would share my experience with everyone here. Starting in ~ Aug 2019 my health started to deteriorate even though I set 2 70.3 PR’s that summer and was training really well. In 2020 I started having back …

With all the side effects that I’ve heard about and users are experiencing has made me just stunned at the stuff people will submit themselves to to ‘lose weight’. Users of those drugs are on the treadmill (no pun intended) for life. You go off it, and BOOM it’s back… The horrific symptoms are just…

Some folks the trade-offs are worth it. I don’t know that sample set includes pro cyclists though.

The side effects are overstated. A lot of the people you with major side effects are going into starvation mode, trying to lose weight as fast as possible. I don’t care what drug you are on, if you don’t eat, you will have major issues. Since I posted last, I’ve seen two local cyclists go on Wego…

Do you think I could use this to get back to sub 150lbs?

People that need to lose 40-80+ pounds are probably the target patient for these drugs. Elites have never seemed to have much problem being lean so semaglutide isn’t going to make Pogacar faster. [image] lee82: I would bet a low dose wegovy or tirzepatide would be very effective at helping red…

[image] AJS914: Elites have never seemed to have much problem being lean so semaglutide isn’t going to make Pogacar faster. That’s not entirely accurate. They’ve certainly used drugs like corticosteroids in the past to get lean while retaining muscle mass.

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