Muscle-retention workouts

Recompose offers guided resistance sessions aimed at keeping the muscle you already have rather than building new size. Each day it suggests a session scaled to your stage: light and short on suppression days, your hardest session on return days when energy is back. Sessions work with bodyweight, dumbbells or a full gym.

Last reviewed 10 September 2026 by the Recompose team.

Why resistance training specifically

Research on weight loss consistently finds that cardio alone does little to protect lean mass, while resistance training during a calorie deficit is generally reported to preserve more of it. If you are only going to do one kind of training while losing weight quickly, the evidence points at lifting.

Scaled to the day, not to an ideal week

StageWhat is offered
Injection daySomething easy: a walk, mobility, or a short full-body circuit
SuppressionOptional. If you train, short and light, with the ring not required
ReturnThe main session of the week: full effort, compound movements
Pre-shotA second solid session while appetite and energy are highest

What a session looks like

A short list of movements with a demonstration for each, sets and reps, and a duration. You log it in one tap when you are done, which closes your movement ring. No video course, no 60-minute commitment.

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