HIIT vs LISS cardio on GLP-1 — anyone have experience?

julia.endo said:

Training does two things here and only one of them is on the scale.

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 5K last month.

My fitness journey alongside GLP-1 therapy:

• Month 1-2: Walking 15 min/day
• Month 3-4: Walking 30-45 min, started bodyweight exercises
• Month 5-6: Joined a gym, started resistance training
• Month 7+: Running, lifting heavy, yoga for fun

The weight loss made movement possible. The movement made more weight loss possible. Virtuous cycle in action.

Following on from Dr.SportsMedIN — and this may be the naive question:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

Dr.RaviCardio said:

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 5K last month.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

Closing the loop on my own question.

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction. Correcting it here rather than editing it away.

PeptideChemSF said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.