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Am I consuming enough calories?

Male - 20 - 6ft 1in - 165lbs

I was very skinny in high school and I have started to try and bulk up this past summer. I did a body weight fitness routine every other day and ran 30-40 minutes every day that I wasn't doing the bwf routine. I consumed about 3500 calories almost everyday over the summer and I didn't gain any weight.

I have recently started lifting weights and stopped running in hopes that that will help me to gain more mass at a faster pace. My fitness pal says that I should be consuming about 3800 calories everyday in order to gain one pound per week. Does this seem right or am I more than likely just going to become fat and not very muscular?

Posted Aug 2, 2015, 12:43 AM UTC

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haterbaterade69Bodybuilding•

Roughly 3000 calories should be good enough for you to gain weight at 165. 3800 is excessive. If you aren't gaining weight at 3000 up your calories by 100 each week till you do. Restrict yourself from massive surpluses to minimize fat gain.

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_fitlegit•

If you gain at about 1 pound a week you shouldn't gain too much fat. Just try 3500 a day for a week or so with your new routine, if your weight goes up a pound, then you're right where you wana be, if it's less than a pound, add a couple hundred more calories, if it's more, cut back a little bit. Repeat this every week

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