It's been 40 days since I started my first proper bulk. This was after I spent about a year losing 20 kgs of fat.
BUT in those 40 days my weight has shot up by 5-6kgs. It went up a lot in the initial 2 weeks, but I ignored that thinking its because of huge change in diet, exercise and also I'd started taking creatine.
But I anyway cut down a bit on my calories to keep the weight in check. If I analyse my weight data from last 15-20 days though it still looks like I'm on track to put on 2kgs a month. And from whatever I've read you can't really put on more than 1kg of muscle a month. So I'm still quite worried.
Its quite confusing. On the one hand, if the gains are mostly muscle then I should be super happy. But if they are mostly fat then I'm doing something wrong and need to fix it. But which one is it?
I'm guessing this is the fine balance that most of you must be facing while bulking. The one thing that could solve this mystery is being able to measure small changes in body fat. Do you guys have any reliable methods to do this?
I've started measuring my waist (which fortunately hasn't increased!) and going to buy a skin fold callipers as well. But please advise on how to deal with this mystery.
The funny thing is, I'm actually eating only 2200-2400 Cals at this point, and I'm 6' tall! I know this is wayyy lower than what most of you guys eat. But I still seem to be putting on more weight than I should be?
BUT in those 40 days my weight has shot up by 5-6kgs. It went up a lot in the initial 2 weeks, but I ignored that thinking its because of huge change in diet, exercise and also I'd started taking creatine.
But I anyway cut down a bit on my calories to keep the weight in check. If I analyse my weight data from last 15-20 days though it still looks like I'm on track to put on 2kgs a month. And from whatever I've read you can't really put on more than 1kg of muscle a month. So I'm still quite worried.
Its quite confusing. On the one hand, if the gains are mostly muscle then I should be super happy. But if they are mostly fat then I'm doing something wrong and need to fix it. But which one is it?
I'm guessing this is the fine balance that most of you must be facing while bulking. The one thing that could solve this mystery is being able to measure small changes in body fat. Do you guys have any reliable methods to do this?
I've started measuring my waist (which fortunately hasn't increased!) and going to buy a skin fold callipers as well. But please advise on how to deal with this mystery.
The funny thing is, I'm actually eating only 2200-2400 Cals at this point, and I'm 6' tall! I know this is wayyy lower than what most of you guys eat. But I still seem to be putting on more weight than I should be?
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