As long as you can eat enough calories, you can gain weight/muscle/strength while IFing leangains style (seen it with myself and other I know). There seems to come a point (though you are no where near this) that I’ve seen with some bigger, more advanced guys I know, where they simply cannot eat enough calories in that 8 hour window to gain weight (over 5000/day).
I’ve been “mainta-gaining” for the last few months and gained strength and a little size eating this way.
Useful tool I found: Leangains / Lean Bulk / Bulking Calculator: Calculate Your Calories & Macros | Musclehacking
Enter your information and then select one of the mass gaining options and it’ll give you a pretty accurate breakdown of the calories and macros.
[quote]ethanwest wrote:
Useful tool I found: Leangains / Lean Bulk / Bulking Calculator: Calculate Your Calories & Macros | Musclehacking
Enter your information and then select one of the mass gaining options and it’ll give you a pretty accurate breakdown of the calories and macros.[/quote]
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[quote]ethanwest wrote:
Useful tool I found: Leangains / Lean Bulk / Bulking Calculator: Calculate Your Calories & Macros | Musclehacking
Enter your information and then select one of the mass gaining options and it’ll give you a pretty accurate breakdown of the calories and macros.[/quote]
I weight train for 60 mins 4 days per week…work a relatively physical job on average 4 days per week. (Stock clerk at grocery store…I stock laundry detergent and pet food bags).
I tend to use smaller multipliers just to be on the safe side…but, would you say I should atleast put moderately active as the multiplier?
[quote]facko wrote:
[quote]ethanwest wrote:
Useful tool I found: Leangains / Lean Bulk / Bulking Calculator: Calculate Your Calories & Macros | Musclehacking
Enter your information and then select one of the mass gaining options and it’ll give you a pretty accurate breakdown of the calories and macros.[/quote]
I weight train for 60 mins 4 days per week…work a relatively physical job on average 4 days per week. (Stock clerk at grocery store…I stock laundry detergent and pet food bags).
I tend to use smaller multipliers just to be on the safe side…but, would you say I should atleast put moderately active as the multiplier?[/quote]
I work at a desk, so I typically consider myself sedentary, however when looking at the results from the calculator mine most closely resemble “lightly active”, so I would say you should go with moderately active, if not higher depending on what your goal is.
You CAN gain on IF. I did it over summer and succesfuly gained 10 lbs of mass
You need to find your maintenance
eat at your TDEE on rest days, and eat 300 over your tdee on workout days
that should give you around .5 lb s gained a week.
questions?
[quote]amatella wrote:
You CAN gain on IF. I did it over summer and succesfuly gained 10 lbs of mass
You need to find your maintenance
eat at your TDEE on rest days, and eat 300 over your tdee on workout days
that should give you around .5 lb s gained a week.
questions?[/quote]
Any noticeable fat gain to speak of? And did what did you use as an activity multiplier for calculating your TDEE?