You just added leg press to your program. Here is where a strength metric is helpful. Keep your current program. As long as your leg press strength is increasing, stay with your program. If, and/or when your leg press plateaus revisit your recovery.
IMO, the only thing that matters is your leg press strength.
I do see much of @s.gentz concern. Considering that, one of your leg days of the week must be less intense. I felt my best progress was a single Leg Day per week, but every Leg Day was a full on leg effort. I wobbled out of the gym.
I should add that I always followed Leg Day with a Rest Day.
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How much do you weigh these days?
Too much volume is a social construct
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I just went back and took a look at your other physique thread. IMO you need to eat more if you trying to grow. You’re pretty close to stage condition. You’re not training to your potential and leaving a lot on the table staying that lean.
I think m more good and a bit less volume would go a long way.
Do you have a coach?
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I did bump up from 3140 to 3355 calories per day 3 months ago. I went from 179ish to 181-182
I can’t believe how much more you eat than me. Your metabolism must be crazy
This is some of why I am asking if I am doing to much in my training. If I were doing less, then I obviously wouldn’t get to eat as much.
Yes. 12k each day for the past almost 18 months.
Do you make that a goal to achieve, or is that just what your average is?
Oh never mind, you walk a ton more than me. That makes sense. I average about 2k steps a day lol
I feel like THIS is more working against your gaining goals than the training is. Daily activity tends to be far more a player in bodyweight vs the hour or so of time we spent in the gym. This is why sedentary people are encouraged to move around more, and, consequently, why John McCallum advised “living the fat cat life” in his “softening up” article written in the 60s, and why Super Squats said “don’t stand when you can sit, don’t sit when you can lay down, don’t lay down when you can sleep”
You are still engaging in the habits of someone looking to lose weight when you are trying to gain it. Why is that?
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I’m not sure. I just like to stay active, I guess. I don’t feel like I’m one to put on a bunch of weight and eat a ton to gain quickly then turn around and lose it again. I’m alright with gaining slowly.
IMO, slow and steady is fine. Just make sure that you are gaining.
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It’s not about the rate of gain but about the compromise of recovery resources and, as @s.gentz pointed out: being in a state of bodyfat conducive to anabolism.