Coming back from an injury

darkguardian419

I'm 25 year old male, 70" tall, around 260lbs, ~27%BF. Roughly 2200 BMR with ~3000 TDEE. Logging has been on and off, but I was losing at a nice easy pace around 2600/2700 with 3 days of cardio a week.

My question is not necessarily about weight loss, it's lifting.

I've been out of lifting for 4 months thanks to a wrist injury. I'm an 'overweight beginner' again, and I know that this is the niche where it's possible to build strength and lose weight, but would I be better off starting off in a bulk to take better advantage of "newbie gains"? I'm not overly concerned with weight loss, if it means that I can build back up to where I was pre-injury faster, I can always go into a cut down the road.

I am well aware that I'm at risk to re-injure myself, and am taking precautions against that

SideSteel

If I were you, I wouldn't bulk.

darkguardian419

Fair enough :bigsmile:

Wasn't sure if there would be any appreciable benefit to bulking during 'newbie gains' or not. I did get to where I was before eating below maintenance, so I'll just do that again.

Thanks for the response :bigsmile:

Sarauk2sf

I agree with SideSteel that it would not be a good idea to bulk.

You will get 'returning lifter' gains on a deficit, and while this is more of an 'educated guess' than something I can point to, I doubt the gains related to this situation will be appreciably more while on a surplus than on a deficit, and even if they are, they will not be to any degree that it is worth eating at a surplus while at a relatively high BF% (in fact, you will probably get any additional benefit just from that fact without you having to eat more).

danimalkeys

What caused your wrist injury- was it lifting related? Maybe you could look into some good powerlifting style wrist wraps (they are about 18" long and go around your wrist several times to really stiffen it up) to use as a preventative?

4 months off- just start over at the beginning. You'll get back quick enough, but starting slow/light will help your joints and more important, your wrist, get used to holding the weight again.

darkguardian419

Sara thank you for your response as well, it completely reinforces the decision (I'm pretty indecisive about things like this). Thank you.

Danimal my injury was actually due to slipping on a wet gym floor doing cardio, which made it that much worse :grumble:

I'll definitely be looking into good wrist wraps, hadn't considered those yet... thank you