End of cut now building muscle?

dave_in_ni
dave_in_ni Posts: 533 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm at the end of a 6 month cut, I have been lifting during them 6 months but I lost a lot of muscle and strength so the plan now is to build some muscle but I want to get it right and not gain fat.

So my plan is to up to maintenance from 1500 by increasing 100 cals per week until I reach maintenance which is supposedly 2050 cals

I will try and eat 1 gram of protein per lb of body weight so thats around 175 grams of protein per day

Anything I have missed or anything else I need to be doing?

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  • DresdenSinn
    DresdenSinn Posts: 665 Member
    100 calories a week?! It'll take you 5 1/2 weeks just to get to maintenance! Forget that...I'd add 100 calories a day and wouldn't worry about gaining fat, you can't add quality muscle w/out gaining some fat..well you can but it's soooo slooooow!
  • alexnosleeves
    alexnosleeves Posts: 4 Member
    If I am honest, your maintenance seems incredibly low my man.
  • dave_in_ni
    dave_in_ni Posts: 533 Member
    DresdenSinn wrote: »
    100 calories a week?! It'll take you 5 1/2 weeks just to get to maintenance! Forget that...I'd add 100 calories a day and wouldn't worry about gaining fat, you can't add quality muscle w/out gaining some fat..well you can but it's soooo slooooow!

    Yeah thought that but didn't want to rush things. Should I go over maintenance slightly? I hear some say a small surplus say 100 cals
  • dave_in_ni
    dave_in_ni Posts: 533 Member
    alexnosleeves wrote: »
    If I am honest, your maintenance seems incredibly low my man.

    That was some random calculator I found online, how do I work it out? Are maintenance and TDEE the same thing?

    Going by this https://tdeecalculator.net/result.php?s=imperial&g=male&age=35&lbs=177&in=72&act=1.55&f=1 My TDEE is 2753
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Go by your own numbers not some online calculator.
    You know what level you have been eating at and you know what rate of weight loss you have been having.

    If you were losing muscle and strength you were doing it wrong. Don't make the same mistake at "maintenance".
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    Why so much protien? I'd go 1 gram per pound of lean body weight and make room for some carbs and fat.

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