Lifting / Cardio (Still needed?)

P

Pelican

0
First off, i'm 16, 5"11, 150lbs.

I eat really healthy all around, and I used some method out of a nutrition book to figure how many calories I needed a day, it said about 2000 to stay at my weight, up it to bulk, decrease it to go down.. I generally get 1500 - 2000 a day at present.

I'm getting a incline bench, decline bench, leg bench, and a inclined sit up bench from my school which they no longer need.

I'm going to start lifting ALOT more then I do at present, which is alot of dumbell and bodyweight excersises.

I'm starting track tomorrow, which will be 4x days a week of an hour cardio after school, then I will be coming home and weight training.

Now, my question is 1, doing both, how many calories should I consume?
Second, if I were to eliminate essentially all cardio out of my workouts(quitting track, and jogging), and just did weightlifting, would I gain significant fat weight, or have to decrease calorie consumption?

Right now, I don't need to lose weight.. I'm fairly fit, but i'm not all that into track, and I enjoy weight lifting more so I figured it would be nice to dedicate most of my time to that instead of doing track.

Thanks.
 
Either way, you're going to have to eat a significant amount more. How much you should consume total changes from person to person, it's not one specific number for everyone.

Start off with trying to add 500 calories (per day) to what you are eating now.

If you are lifting and eating well and eating enough, you won't gain "fat weight," you'll gain muscle weight.

But do you have a goal right now? Or do you just wanna maintain and be healthy overall? If you are trying to gain muscle mass your caloric intake is gonna have to go way up, especially with the cardio 4 times a week, even if you do end up doing track and focus more on the lifting, your caloric intake will still have to increase a significant amount, if you are looking to add some muscle, that is.
 
Alright, great.

My goal is to not be huge, but well defined, and built/ripped. Muscle MASS is not a huge importance to me, although not really undesired.

If I don't do track, and don't do really any cardio whatsoever, I won't gain FAT weight just lifting, it'll just turn into muscle, correct?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top