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Originally Posted by gazmatrix Thanks for the advice m8, believe it or not I was bulking with 2800 cals and maintaining at 2400 cals. I was training on a 3 day split for around 45-60min, I wasn’t doing any other exercise at all though. I work from home building computers so I don't burn many cals at all... |
I used to be the same way - I would maintain on about 2200-2400 calories. I now maintain on 4000 calories, and my weight is not THAT much different. When I was cutting at the beginning of last year, I was using 2000 calories. This year when I begin cutting, I'll be shooting for 3500 calories. On the 2000 calories I plateau'd at 10% and couldn't get lower, as I couldn't eat any less than that! Since I'll be cutting at 3500 this year, once I plateau, I'll just drop calories slightly as I'll have that flexibility. That's something I couldn't do at 2000 calories, and I'm sure that you'll struggle to do that too when you inevitably do plateau.
How I sped up my metabolism so much is a combination of getting half of my calories from protein (yes, 500g a day), 45-60 mins of VERY low intensity (walking) cardio every day (even when bulking) and cutting out carbs completely from mid-afternoon onwards. All of my fats (25-30% of my calories) come from flax, olive oil and fish oils.
Just food for thought (no pun intended!)
