The weight's coming off, but so is the muscle — building a strength coach for women on GLP-1s, looking for a few testers
Hey! I'll keep this real. I'm a software engineer and I own a women-only gym, and the thing I keep hearing from women on GLP-1s genuinely worries me: the weight comes off, but so does a chunk of muscle and strength — and when energy's low, training is the first thing to go, which only makes it worse.
I'm not on a GLP-1 myself, so I won't pretend I know exactly what it feels like. But I've spent years coaching women through every stage, and "I'm getting smaller but also weaker and more tired" comes up constantly. Most fitness apps either ignore the meds entirely or hand you the same generic plan regardless.
So I'm building Elvara — a training coach for women that adapts to how you actually feel day to day (energy, recovery, where you're at) and keeps strength the priority, specifically so you hold onto muscle while the weight comes off. It's built on research into women's physiology, not guesswork. To be clear: it's the training side only — your doctor handles the meds, and there's no calorie-counting or macro-policing. That's not what this is.
It's an early beta on iPhone (TestFlight). Free to test, and everyone in the beta keeps it free for life as a thank-you for helping me get it right. I read every signup myself.
If you've been worried about coming out the other side weaker, I'd genuinely love your help shaping it — drop a comment or grab it here: beta.elvara-app.com
Tell me what's useful and what's nonsense. 🙏