Hi Doctors
today I thought about caloric surplus.
If I ask Powerlifters in Germany whats the key to getting stronger the answer is mostly train harder, eat more.
I am currently at about 93 kg down from about 109 kg in October '21 and got stronger in all the Big 4 (training with PB I, PB II two times and currently on PB III)
Believing in the calculators the internet provides I should be eating about 3000 cal/day to get to my estimated ideal weight of about 89kg. (1m76cm height).
I do want to lose the love handles that are still there although I have visible abs, but I dont want to lose much of my strength. So I figured I could try to eat in maintainance mode to not lose too much strength but lose the last 4-5 kg over a longer time is the possible?
I got a little bit lost here.
Back to my first question. Would just eat say 5000 calories make me so much stronger than eating just about 200-300 cal surplus?
I mean there must be a limit to how much energy my body can put into strength without just adding fat to my body.
Thanks as always and sorry for spaming the forum but I find it hard to get such good advise anywhere around me.