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What to do when you have met your goal?

mjroche17 Posts: 10 Joined: 2004/03/26	2005/12/30, 08:10 AM Hey this is hypothetical question as I have not yet achived my goals. But I was wondering when youve reached your ideal size how do you maintain this. I mean do you just lift the same wieghts. You will i guess have to continue wieghts but would you increase the weight which surely would lead to you increasing your size? thanks matt
mikencharleston Posts: 1,585 Joined: 2002/01/09	2005/12/30, 08:18 AM Hey Matt - If all you're wanting to do is maintain where you are, the easiest way is to keep tracking your diet but more importantly switch out your workout every so often so your workouts don't get boring. I like to stay on 3 or 4 week cycles which is where a training log (nothing fancy) comes in. I just finished a 4 week cycle of doing nothing but complex movements trying to put on a bit more mass as a cut overshot. I'll switch now to more isolation work and a few less sets of the complex moves. -------------- Mike in Pensacola Now.
fighting_london Posts: 89 Joined: 2005/12/25	2005/12/31, 01:33 AM The logical thing to do is to burn the same amount of calories daily as you take in. I mean, you're not gaining nor losing that way - maintaining. If you're one of those lucky people whose BMR is close to your daily caloric intake, then you don't have do much more. I suppose the ideal thing is to keep your workout, but increase your intake to match what you're burning to maintain it. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/12/31, 04:27 PM When you reach your goal, simply staying at maintenance calories will maintain your weight. Maintenance will be the amount of caloric intake that keeps you the same, no loss, no gain with your current activity level. -------------- Strength and Honor!
Lonegirl Posts: 446 Joined: 2002/11/13	2006/01/02, 11:31 AM set new goals.... even if the goal is to maintain size/weight
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/01/02, 12:14 PM Excellent post. ============ Quoting from lonegirl: set new goals.... even if the goal is to maintain size/weight ============= -------------- Strength and Honor!
	2006/01/02, 05:00 PM There are always new goals to set and new highs to reach....fitness is a lifetime commitment and I would find new things that i could do...run a mile under certain time, swim X distance under Y time, cycle , learn to play a new sport, lift more weight, try new exercises, go hiking, climbing, rafting, etc.... Also lifting more does not necessarily lead to more size gains....size gains are more a reflection of your nutrition than your training per se....if you keep calories constant then it will be very difficult to add any new size...especiallly if u have been eating healthy all along....I wouldn't be afraid to try to lift progressively heavier....just do so safely....this is one of the things that keeps me coming back....because numbers don't lie...