What should my calories be when bulking?

2750 at least. I’m basically the same as you and when I hit that consistently I can see gains

Depends on how much exercise you get. Assuming a desk job and no cardio, I’d probably eat closer to 2400 to start off with. Should be gaining close to a lb a week. You’ll be lucky if 1/2 of that is muscle. 2700+ I think you’d be adding quickly and will not be happy in 3-5 months

ETA: how many calories have you been maintaining at? I’d add 500 to it

Aren't you the guy that said you lost like 40 lbs this year? If so I'd say 2700 is too high. Your metabolism probably slowed down from your cut and your body is going to want to put those 40 lbs back on quickly. I'd go slow and just keep an eye on the scale. Maybe add 100 cals a week until you start gaining weight too fast. Look into reverse dieting out of a cut

Discover your maintenance caloric level.
-500 for losing weight. You will lose a pound a week.
+500 for gaining weight. You will gain a pound a week.

Track your progress. if you aint gaining enough weight but you swear youre working out hard enough, increase calories.

Inverse goes for losing weight. If you aint losing weight but swear youre tracking your calories correctly, decrease calories.

I just want to point out that the BMR calculator is good for calculating the energy expenditure for the masses but for anyone that does any kind of training it's wildly inaccurate. Just to give an example, when I punch my info in it gives me a BMR of 2200 kcal/day when in reality I burn upward of 4500 kcal/day.

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You are in a most enviable position. With that height and weight.

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how so?

maybe for a 15 year old

I was that size at 19 before starting to lift, i looked like a cross country runner


It took years of hard training to get where I am now, it isn't a quick transition to go from that type of build to muscle filling out that frame.

I around 180 now and 12-14% body fat