Strength Training and Weight Gain

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  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
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    I'm just wondering about the diet too. I was told to eat 20% above your maintenance on lift days and eat back 50% of your workout calories, and then 20% below your maintenance on run/rest days and eat back any exercise then too.

    So this puts me at 2000 calories for lift days + exercise and 1350+ exercise on rest days. Make sense?

    (Also, I follow 1g/lb of LBM on lift days for protein as well.)

    I don't like changing from day to day, it's too much to keep track of. I eat the same whether it's a lift day, cardio day, or rest day
  • Sinope82
    Sinope82 Posts: 108 Member
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    Bumping as i'm in the same boat and i'm hoping this may keep me sane until the scales hopefully start moving again
  • NoelleED
    NoelleED Posts: 148
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    I gained like... 4 pounds over the last week! Could that all be muscle or water retention or... something else from weight training?

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