If you're using diabetes or weight-loss drugs like semaglutide, adding personalized strength training can help you lose fat while keeping your muscle.

If you keep your muscle while losing weight with certain diabetes or weight-loss drugs like semaglutide, you might be less likely to gain the weight back after stopping the drug — muscle could help keep your metabolism healthy long-term.

If you keep your muscle while losing weight with certain diabetes or weight-loss drugs, you might be less likely to gain the weight back after stopping the drug — because more muscle helps you burn more calories even when resting.

In untrained young men, doing resistance training for eight weeks with consistent effort and workload leads to a reduction in body fat by about 5–8%, no matter how the exercises are grouped into sets.