This question is for successful hard gainers that have managed to increase their lean bulk. I am wondering how hard it is to maintain your lean weight gain. Do you have to keep the exact same diet and exercise, or can you change either?
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Maintaining Weight Gain
- Thread starter gbpackerfan
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Be sure to decrease your calories slowly after your bulk, adjusting them by 300-500 a day for 1 week at a time. Monitor your weight, and increase your activity level. If you diet too drastically you will lose a good deal of your gains if the muscle is not mature yet. Everyone is different in this regard, but this has what has worked for me. It takes a lot of tweaking and learning what works for you personally to gain mass and stay lean while doing it, then keeping it is a whole other process.
You also need to continue exercising. Use it or lose it, is a true statement. I had worked my way up to 185 lbs from 165 and had 8% BF. When I stopped exercising and eating the extra calories, I dropped to 175 pretty quickly. I then maintained 175 but I gradually started losing muscle and gaining fat, so I wasn't a 'good' 175 lbs, I was 165 lbs with 10 lbs of 'insulation' around my middle.