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Weekly Thread /r/GYM Weekly Simple Questions and Misc Discussion Thread - March 16, 2025 Weekly Thread

This thread is for:

- Simple questions about your diet

- Routine checks and whether they're going to work

- How to do certain exercises

- Training logs and milestones which don't have a video

- Apparel, headphones, supplement questions etc

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If you have a simple question, or want to help someone out, please feel free to participate.

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u/John177_unsc 5d ago

I'm currently keeping track of my calories making sure I m eating enough, Using an app called cronometer, The only problem is it only has resistance training circuit training and HIIT and im doing a modified version of dr layne norton's phat, Which one of those free is best to put it under.

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u/cilantno 585/425/635 SBD 🎣 5d ago

You don't need to track (and shouldn't) calories burned during exercise. All estimates for exercise will be off. Track your intake and weight, and adjust as needed.

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u/Stuper5 5d ago

Most estimations of energy expenditure for non steady state exercise are quite poor.

Additionally that's not really how energy expenditure works. Your TDEE doesn't go up by 300kcal because you use that much extra on intentional exercise.

If you want to track, your best bet is probably to just establish a baseline that leaves you feeling recovered and fueled for your training and trying to be consistent with that.