Sport The dealio on caloric surplus needed at my weight.

[Iwillgetripped]

I weigh 151 lbs. and am 6 feet.

I probably take in 2800-3100 calories a day.

Now I am worried that when I reach 160 lbs.+ (I am having a hard time gaining mass now even) that I'm gonna have to be taking in 4000+ calories.

Then I thought about 170 lb.+ and I was thinking to myself, how am I going to pull off 5000-6000 calories a day?

Do I have it all wrong? I remember going to a positively supported link topic here where it lead to me a site where a person was giving examples that for a 180 lb. person would just need around 3600 calories to bulk etc, but then I ran into a site that told me to eat 4000 calories now....

I am lost and just need simple recognition on estimated amount of calories needed at different intervals like 150 160 170 for bulking.

I have an office job 5 days a week, I am not active outside of my house on the weekends. I workout 3 times a week, 1 hour each, full body workouts.

Someone also said that I may be gaining muscle mass and losing fat in the process due to my diet.

 

[malkore]

To bulk, take your ACTUAL maintenance calories (not an estimate from a calculator) and add 10-20%.

so if your maintenance is 3000, bump to 3300 to 3600 cals to bulk up.

and yes, as you increase muscle mass, you increase the calories needed to maintain that mass.

so you are right, that big pro-bodybuilders like Ronnie Coleman will eat 6,000-7,000 calories a day to bulk up.

5,000 for a non-enhanced trainee is likely going to be the most you'd ever possibly need to consume...and that is years away.

 

[Iwillgetripped]

Cool, I will probably need to add 300 more calories in my diet again as if I am still the same weight tomorrow then that will be 3 weeks with no weight increase.

Thanks.