Steps hurting gains?

HvymetalMG

I'm in the process of trying to gain muscle. Eating at a very little surplus. Lifting 4x a week and one week of kickboxing. I don't do any other cardio, but I do walk an average of 12-13 steps a day.

Is that hurting any gains?

pbryd

Only if you can't enough calories to compensate for what you burn while walking

sardelsa

Are you gaining weight? As long as you can fuel and keep up with your surplus, it's fine

Davidsdottir

As long as you're eating to compensate, you're fine. I bulk and average 18k steps a day.

HvymetalMG

My target cals is about 3000 a day. After factoring in lifting and my walks the app says I have about 500 or so left each day. But I wasn't sure if k should really factor that in seeing I'm meeting my daily goals

jdog022

HvymetalMG wrote: »

My target cals is about 3000 a day. After factoring in lifting and my walks the app says I have about 500 or so left each day. But I wasn't sure if k should really factor that in seeing I'm meeting my daily goals

maybe maybe not. suggest you wiegh daily and taking a weekly average. that average needs to be slowly increasing to the tune of approx 2 ibs per month. Track lifts too. the core compounds should be very slowly increasing too.

If not up calories 200-300 and rinse and repeat

sardelsa

HvymetalMG wrote: »

My target cals is about 3000 a day. After factoring in lifting and my walks the app says I have about 500 or so left each day. But I wasn't sure if k should really factor that in seeing I'm meeting my daily goals

Are you gaining? If you are then that's fine. I bulked while nursing my baby.. just make sure you are gaining over time.