🧬 20 y/o UK-based Gym Bro Looking to Run Retatrutide for Shreds

[adamenk17]

Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well

I’m Adam, 20 years old, amateur bodybuilder currently planning out my next cutting phase and interested in retatrutide to make life easier

Been natty all of my training career but lately I’ve been looking into GLP-1s as tools, not shortcuts. I’m especially interested in retatrutide because of its triple agonist effects. I’ve done my fair share of research, but I’m here to learn directly from the people actually using it and to gauge real results, side effects, and protocols

Not diabetic or overweight, just tryna get dick skin shredded without wrecking my muscle mass. I care about doing things right though, so I’m fully on board with the harm reduction approach

Appreciate the welcome and looking forward to learning from all of you 💪

 

[indolent]

Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well

I’m Adam, 20 years old, amateur bodybuilder currently planning out my next cutting phase and interested in retatrutide to make life easier

Been natty all of my training career but lately I’ve been looking into GLP-1s as tools, not shortcuts. I’m especially interested in retatrutide because of its triple agonist effects. I’ve done my fair share of research, but I’m here to learn directly from the people actually using it and to gauge real results, side effects, and protocols

Not diabetic or overweight, just tryna get dick skin shredded without wrecking my muscle mass. I care about doing things right though, so I’m fully on board with the harm reduction approach

Appreciate the welcome and looking forward to learning from all of you 💪

Welcome!

I have no experience with the use-case you describe, but the first thing you should know is that GLP-1s are associated with loss of muscle mass. The stat usually thrown out is that 1/3 of weight loss is non-fat tissue (but not all of that portion is muscle tissue). It's also been observed that this happens in all cases with rapid weight loss, not just from incretin mimetics. And finally, it refers to an initially overweight/obese population ... not clear what that means for your situation.

 

[adamenk17]

Welcome!

I have no experience with the use-case you describe, but the first thing you should know is that GLP-1s are associated with loss of muscle mass. The stat usually thrown out is that 1/3 of weight loss is non-fat tissue (but not all of that portion is muscle tissue). It's also been observed that this happens in all cases with rapid weight loss, not just from incretin mimetics. And finally, it refers to an initially overweight/obese population ... not clear what that means for your situation.

Thanks for the heads-up, appreciate it! Yeah, I figured muscle loss might be part of the deal


I’m actually not overweight, just wanting to experiment with retatrutide to make the process easier and kill cravings.


I’m staying on top of my protein intake, resistance training 5x a week, and staying away from high impact cardio to help keep muscle on. So hopefully I can dodge the worst of that lean mass loss

 

[slowsixstang]

Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well

I’m Adam, 20 years old, amateur bodybuilder currently planning out my next cutting phase and interested in retatrutide to make life easier

Been natty all of my training career but lately I’ve been looking into GLP-1s as tools, not shortcuts. I’m especially interested in retatrutide because of its triple agonist effects. I’ve done my fair share of research, but I’m here to learn directly from the people actually using it and to gauge real results, side effects, and protocols

Not diabetic or overweight, just tryna get dick skin shredded without wrecking my muscle mass. I care about doing things right though, so I’m fully on board with the harm reduction approach

Appreciate the welcome and looking forward to learning from all of you 💪

Fellow gym guy, technically overweight but I can understand where you're coming from. Tirz is FDA approved and has been around longer so I have been on a small dose (3mg) just for the appetite effects. Depends on your long term safety tolerance. The glucagon agonsism is interesting, but when I tried reta I felt flushed and heart racing, and as I take stimulants, I didn't like that. Still might switch someday and start lower.