Help with Starting Calories

TrevorJSanders
TrevorJSanders Posts: 5 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
Stats:
Male
5'11"
120 lbs
18 years old

I generally weight train 6 days a week and do 35 minutes of cardio everyday. I want to start putting on some lean muscle mass and was wondering if 3000 calories a day is a good place to start. Any recommendations?

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Did you enter your stats into this site and tell it you wanted to gain weight? What number did it give you?
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Set MFP to whatever your daily non-exercise activity level is.

    Sedentary BTW is less than 4K steps each and every day. That's bump on a log outside of exercise daily.
    Most people discovery they are Lightly Active with household, yard, family, social stuff going on too.

    The eating goal given is on days with no workouts.

    Log that lifting as Weights, which isn't a huge calorie burn, which is true, but log it.
    Eat it back.

    Log your cardio accurately for time spent, intensity if there is an option.

    And you can't gain Lean Muscle Mass - you can't decide how the muscle is put on.
    You gain Lean Body Mass (other name is Non-Fat Mass), everything not fat, which includes water weight.
    And with LBM gained will be some FM (Fat Mass) - inevitable.

    But since you are underweight - set MFP to minimum amount to gain weight.

    Eat all those calories, reach your goal.

    If you'd rather have a daily eating goal that doesn't change, let me know.
    What is daily activity level though - it does matter if planning on bulking.

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