haneks
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I'm 50 years old and have only been lifting since age 48. Aside from the fact that I'm having my second rotator cuff surgery next week, I'm in great shape at 177 lbs with about 12%.
I normally eat around 3200 (clean) calories per day while training. In order to minimize the muscle atrophy which is sure to occur with six weeks in a sling and no upper body workouts for three months, what changes would you recommend I make to my diet? Should I back down significantly on the carbs while boosting the protein? I don't want to gain fat, obviously, nor do I want to lose more muscle than necessary. I'm thinking that since I can't even do cardio for the first 10 days or so that I drop the calories down to about 2200, then bring them back up to about 2800 when I start doing cardio, but try to get about 225-250 grams of protein per day instead of the 175-200 I normally get, until I can resume weight training in the third or fourth month.
What do you think? Thanks in advance.
I normally eat around 3200 (clean) calories per day while training. In order to minimize the muscle atrophy which is sure to occur with six weeks in a sling and no upper body workouts for three months, what changes would you recommend I make to my diet? Should I back down significantly on the carbs while boosting the protein? I don't want to gain fat, obviously, nor do I want to lose more muscle than necessary. I'm thinking that since I can't even do cardio for the first 10 days or so that I drop the calories down to about 2200, then bring them back up to about 2800 when I start doing cardio, but try to get about 225-250 grams of protein per day instead of the 175-200 I normally get, until I can resume weight training in the third or fourth month.
What do you think? Thanks in advance.