kimchee411
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After spending about 14-15 weeks going from 22% BF down to 10-12% I started bulking, and with some rough estimates I calculated that I'm burning about 2800 calories/day. I'm 5'9" ~175-178 (now... was 168-170 3-4 weeks ago) and I lift 4 days/week (2 muscles/day, 9-12 sets/muscle). So being paranoid about getting fat after having spent so much time to cut, I decided to target my daily calories at about 2800. In the last 3-4 weeks I have made some gains, but not as good as I have in the past when I just ate "a lot" of food.
Anyway, there were a couple of days this past week when I ate huge meals and my workouts have been a helluva lot better. e.g. Today I did overhead DB tricep extensions @ 85x10, 90x9, and 95x7, when I usually only get up to like 85x7. This obviously tells me that I just wasn't eating enough in the past weeks. But yesterday I ate like 4000+ cals (I had an entire medium pizza w/the works over just a few hours, lol) and I know that's way overboard. So how many excess calories do y'all (who don't balloon up) usually take in when you're bulking? Today someone told me you should eat at least 500 cals extra when bulking, so ~3300 for me -- that doesn't sound too unreasonable, although I would like to able to get away with 3100 or so. Is that too few?
I don't mind adding a little bit of fat, but I just don't want to erase all of my previous work from cutting. I guess I don't want to exceed like 16-17%. I will be bulking through the end of April.
BTW, I don't normally eat pizzas and the like, so no need to flame me there. I just eat 5-6 meals/day, try to take in as much protein as I can, and watch the high GI carbs except for PWO and in the morning.
Thanks in advance bros.
Anyway, there were a couple of days this past week when I ate huge meals and my workouts have been a helluva lot better. e.g. Today I did overhead DB tricep extensions @ 85x10, 90x9, and 95x7, when I usually only get up to like 85x7. This obviously tells me that I just wasn't eating enough in the past weeks. But yesterday I ate like 4000+ cals (I had an entire medium pizza w/the works over just a few hours, lol) and I know that's way overboard. So how many excess calories do y'all (who don't balloon up) usually take in when you're bulking? Today someone told me you should eat at least 500 cals extra when bulking, so ~3300 for me -- that doesn't sound too unreasonable, although I would like to able to get away with 3100 or so. Is that too few?
I don't mind adding a little bit of fat, but I just don't want to erase all of my previous work from cutting. I guess I don't want to exceed like 16-17%. I will be bulking through the end of April.
BTW, I don't normally eat pizzas and the like, so no need to flame me there. I just eat 5-6 meals/day, try to take in as much protein as I can, and watch the high GI carbs except for PWO and in the morning.
Thanks in advance bros.