Nov 3 • General discussion
Weight spike after upping calories
Hi all! Today’s discussion that I find pretty commonly talked about with my athletes is Weight spike after increasing calories. Many of my athletes (lifestyle athletes who don’t go on preps) are on a weight loss phase or body recomp for long periods of time are used to seeing the weight go down and as we know the scale is just a tool and we can’t solely base measurements off that since something the scale doesn’t say what the mirror does. Once the goal has been achieved or when we have reached the goal weight I slowly make them increase there calories as there maintenance has also adopted and changed and what they’re maintenance might have been at 160 pounds and 15% Bf won’t be the same as when they drop 140 and 10-12% bf. What happens if after that increase the scale tends to go up and we can’t forget that one gram of glycogen binds with approximately 3–4 grams of water. We also increase the calories from higher carbs which then leads to increase in weight not body fat and that’s what my athletes mistaken thinking they have gained fat which isn’t true. Introducing higher carbs will lead to slight water gain as from from the data I talked about above. Hope this helps ash would love to hear your thoughts :)
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Weight spike after upping calories
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