I've dieted, exercised and lifted myself to a weight where I look good (185 down to 168) and bought a whole new wardrobe of clothes. I still want to gain a little more muscle mass and improve my definition, but I'm afraid to eat more because at my age (65) the weight might tend to go to my waist. Don't know what my body fat is, but if I work hard and stay at this weight (I've been super motivated for a year now) will I be able to gain muscle? Or do I need to eat more to make gains?
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07-27-2011, 10:43 AM #1
Can I maintain weight and still build muscle?
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07-27-2011, 10:51 AM #2
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07-27-2011, 11:38 AM #3
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07-27-2011, 11:43 AM #4
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I get you don't want to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe. Well, no I don't. I love shopping for clothes when I like how I look. It's when I'm a fatass that it's a less pleasurable activity.
Who cares what you weigh? If you recomposition your body by shedding even more fat and gaining some lean mass, you may weigh a few pounds more...but so what? Your clothes will still fit; they'll look better actually.Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I don't know
Every time I plant a seed
He said kill them before they grow
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07-27-2011, 11:47 AM #5
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07-27-2011, 11:51 AM #6
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07-27-2011, 12:27 PM #7
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07-27-2011, 12:35 PM #8
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07-27-2011, 12:49 PM #9
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Congrats on your weight loss! What you have to do now is start lifting heavier, eating slightly over your maintenance and walking the fine line between calorie surplus and deficit. You also need to decide how strict you want to get. Are you happy at the weight you are? Will you freak out if you start to gain weight back just to look a little more "defined"? If you're happy where you are, do you want to take the chance that your new clothes will stop fitting if you start eating more hoping to make muscle gains? Will you lose your motivation?
Just my 2¢.If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humor or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing sane affections. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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07-27-2011, 12:58 PM #10
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07-27-2011, 12:59 PM #11
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07-27-2011, 01:44 PM #12
Pretty much this. You will always gain some amount of fat while bulking, there's just no way around it.
The only question I have for the original poster is this: do you want to be physically larger or just simply stronger? Cuz you can gain some strength without gaining weight.** KNEE DRAGGERS UNITE **
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07-27-2011, 03:08 PM #13
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