Why I'm starting to track my Macro's (After 5 years, and 63lbs gained)

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I'm finally tracking my Macro's after 5 years of lifting.

That was after 5 years, becoming a National Level Athlete, getting to 110lbs pullups for reps, gaining 63lbs of mostly muscle (90lbs to 153, same height).

I genuinely have made pretty sick fuckin progress, especially since I never took actual weightlifting seriously until about 3 years ago.

Tracking Macro's didn't "change my life", or setup a new standard of progress. In fact, I keep getting stronger and stronger.

I used to think if you just ate healthy, and you used the special stomach expansion strategies I learned about, which isn't in this post (I did a lot of work to not have to track macros haha), I thought I could make permanent progress without having to do that step.

And the thing is... I wasn't wrong. Mostly.

I still firmly believe that if you manage to gain 2-4lbs a month, you learn to eat a lot, you eat healthy food, you don't need to track your macro's.

The thing is, I stopped making progress, and I was doing all of this.

And here's a lesson I've learned with training, but not with diet (until now).

"The better you get, the more it takes to get better"

Sounds simple as fuck right?

It is. So now I get to go through the annoyance of using the apps haha, which I talked shit on for so long (the advice I've always given is to do what works best for yourself, so I don't think I've given bad advice).

Cheers,

Brandon

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