Bulking to 200 pounds

[ANDYMAYNE]

Weighing at 140 pounds and 5ft6, how many calories is recommended for a clean bulk? What should my macros be like?

[Josefff]

500 more than maintenance, at the least

Macros:
Protein, and healthy fats
Avoid carbs unless it's your pre workout meal

[Ka0s]

500 more than maintenance, at the least

Macros:
Protein, and healthy fats
Avoid carbs unless it's your pre workout meal

wat

dont do this

carbs>>>

[Oxyuranus]

500 more than maintenance, at the least

Macros:
Protein, and healthy fats
Avoid carbs unless it's your pre workout meal

there's absolutely no reason to avoid carbs you goddamn idiot, especially for a 140lb kid trying to bulk.

[PortugeeWarrior]

Weird, I'm actually trying to do the same, well to an extent. I'm currently 5'3'' and weigh 158 and want to bulk to around 185 before the summer starts. Basically I just eat everything I can but try to take in a lot of carbs, proteins and fats.

[KrazyKrautWop]

Weighing at 140 pounds and 5ft6, how many calories is recommended for a clean bulk? What should my macros be like?

Haha doing the same thing (well actually bulking to 220). Got to 210 lbs last winter but I looked like crap. I would suggest definitely counting calories and macros. If you see that you are getting way too much fat (for me, more than 115 g) then you should find alternative foods. Last fall/early winter, that's what I did and I gained way too much fat. At 182, I try to get in at least 3200 calories with minimum of 200g protein, 400g carbs, and no more than 120g of fat. On this, I have gained about 10 lbs in 2.5 months and with very little fat gain. You will have plateaus (I have been in one for the past 2 weeks) but you will come out of it eventually. It seems to be every 10 lbs your body wants you to slow down. You just gotta be patient.

[bodybuilder17m]

speaking for myself i am currently 190lbs and 5'11 with 9%bodyfat. and my goal is to reach 210 by the end of march then get ripped for summer. i am curretly eating on average about 4500 calories daily in good foods, with a minimum of 180 grams of protein (10eggwhites, couple cans of tuna, etamomi beans, homemade shakes) you get sick of eating the same
foods over and over, but the only way ur gonna get there is by eating Carbs! eat eerything in sight that isnt junk food!

[JHarden]

500 more than maintenance, at the least

Macros:
Protein, and healthy fats
Avoid carbs unless it's your pre workout meal

Actually for a clean bulk it should be 500 over maintenance at the MOST. Going over 500 would be a dirty bulk.

But I guess as long as you're avoiding carbs there's no way you can put on fat, right?

[MichaelBb6]

Actually for a clean bulk it should be 500 over maintenance at the MOST. Going over 500 would be a dirty bulk.

But I guess as long as you're avoiding carbs there's no way you can put on fat, right?

calories in vs calories out, carbs do not put fat on you.

[ANDYMAYNE]

What is my maintenance?

[CanaDURP]

Having a goal set for 200 pounds is a good thing, but a better thing to keep in mind is what you look like in the mirror not what your scale says. What everyone else is saying, stick to about 500 above maintenace, dont listen to buddy saying dont eat carbs, if ur bulking carbs are your friend. Cheers and goodluck, as for your maintenace just go online and search up a calculator takes 3 seconds. This site is handy but dont be scared of google.