Triathlon training while on tirzepatide — my season prep

EndoResFellow said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Coming at EndoResFellow’s question from a different direction. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

Happy to go further on any of that.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

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?

TrialTracker_MD said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

TrialTracker_MD said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.