I want to lift, but I get too big

mstaser
mstaser Posts: 657 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Doesn't really sound like a problem, but when I lift a lot, I tend to gain quickly. I know its muscle and I can't complain about that, but its not really what I want. But I do love lifting weights, I love lifting heavy weights and I love going to the gym. Do I need to take days off the weights and just do cardio style workouts or something else?
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  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    Doesn't really sound like a problem, but when I lift a lot, I tend to gain quickly. I know its muscle and I can't complain about that, but its not really what I want. But I do love lifting weights, I love lifting heavy weights and I love going to the gym. Do I need to take days off the weights and just do cardio style workouts or something else?

    Moderate your calorie intake so that you are not in a surplus. Problem solved.

    Or do a low-volume routine something like 3 days a week of 3x3 @ 85-90% of 1RM for more neurological adaptations and less hypertrophy.

    Or do a grease-the-groove routine 5 days of push/pull/hinge/squat @ 60% with varying reps: 2x5, 3x3, 5,3,2 and 6x1. That's Dan John's Easy Strength, btw.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    No really, tell me more...
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    No really, tell me more...

    ^^^This
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    Just eat less.

    Problem solved.
  • Kita328
    Kita328 Posts: 370 Member
    No really, tell me more...

    And... Muscles are hott...
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    I require pics.
  • mstaser
    mstaser Posts: 657 Member
    My cal intake is normally 1800 or less and I am a stickler on sodium and protein.
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    On 1000 calories a day?

    Man I hope you just don't log well. :noway:
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    I want to run but I get way too fast at it when I decide to do it. How can I run slower and still run?
  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    Poor attempt at trolling....
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    It looks like you don't fill out your diary completely. How do you know you are eating 1800 (which is kinda low for a man, to begin with)
  • mstaser
    mstaser Posts: 657 Member
    On 1000 calories a day?

    Man I hope you just don't log well. :noway:

    1000 calories, what do you mean? 1800 is probably on the low end of what I should be doing.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    My buddy has a problem with his legs where they just get too big, too quick. The only way he was able to get them proportionate to his body was to not train them for 6 months prior to competitions. That helps you none, but I wish I had that problem...
  • DYELB
    DYELB Posts: 7,407 Member
    I know its muscle

    No, it's not.
  • mstaser
    mstaser Posts: 657 Member
    It looks like you don't fill out your diary completely. How do you know you are eating 1800 (which is kinda low for a man, to begin with)

    I have been on MFP for many years and pretty much know what I am eating and where I am thru a day.
  • KseRz
    KseRz Posts: 980 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:

    You.

    You get me.
  • Laurenloveswaffles
    Laurenloveswaffles Posts: 535 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:
    :love:
  • rachelrb85
    rachelrb85 Posts: 579 Member
    Doesn't really sound like a problem, but when I lift a lot, I tend to gain quickly. I know its muscle

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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:

    :drinker:
  • JGonzo82
    JGonzo82 Posts: 167 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:

    ^^^ perfect.
  • W31RD0
    W31RD0 Posts: 173 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:

    You are a kind and generous soul.

    Sometimes my gains go to my penis. Lately it's been a problem when I take a poop and my manhood starts touching the water. It's horrible, man. Horrible...
  • LotusAsh
    LotusAsh Posts: 294 Member
    ufockingwut?
  • mstaser
    mstaser Posts: 657 Member
    Nevermind, I forgot what website I was on. Thanks for your help.
  • katro111
    katro111 Posts: 632 Member
    I want to learn, but I just get too smart. I stopped reading books because I almost built a time machine in my garage one weekend; which could have totally screwed up the time-space continuum for everyone.

    You are all welcome. :flowerforyou:

    I rarely comment on these kinds of thread, but gottdam, that was some funny shizz!
  • LotusAsh
    LotusAsh Posts: 294 Member
    there is no way you are gaining muscle and eating 1800 calories a day. you aren't even logging correctly. .. troll fail
  • LotusAsh
    LotusAsh Posts: 294 Member
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  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    It looks like you don't fill out your diary completely. How do you know you are eating 1800 (which is kinda low for a man, to begin with)

    I have been on MFP for many years and pretty much know what I am eating and where I am thru a day.

    You've been on MFP for "many years"...

    ...and yet you still believe that this problem of eating in a deficit and gaining too much muscle actually exists?

    :huh:
  • waxon81
    waxon81 Posts: 198 Member
    I would be very interested to know how much muscle you can gain. Obviously it's nigh on impossible to be accurate here but humour me... In lbs how much muscle (lbm) do you believe you can you gain in let's say, a month . (As in you gain 5lbs but X lbs of this is muscle)
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    Nevermind, I forgot what website I was on. Thanks for your help.

    What do you honestly expect to get as an answer? People gain muscle in a surplus. You don't track religiously. You're insisting you "know what you eat."

    Substitute the "I keep getting big from lifting" to "I don't know why I'm gaining weight!" and you'd get the same answers. I'd add that, outside of the very real issue of not tracking consistently, your "big" issue could be water retention like all the other posts of people claiming to be at a deficit but "gaining muscle," regardless of sex.

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