Nick Bare

If that, it's a slight surplus.

And to be honest, I don't know exactly how much of a slight surplus because I'm not tracking my calories.

So maybe asking yourself, Nick, how do you know you're in a slight surplus then?

My surplus might be a few hundred calories, if that, and it ranges from day to day.

My goal is to be on a weekly basis in a caloric surplus, but from day to day, I might not be.

One day I might have run more and lifted more and expended more calories, not consumed enough, and I might've actually been in a deficit, but I'm not looking at this caloric surplus

on a day-to-day, but more so from a week-to-week.

And I'm judging that surplus based off of a few things, subjectively and objectively.

Because the question is going to be, how do I know I'm in a caloric surplus if I'm not tracking?

Well, I assess, how do my workouts feel?

Do I feel strong?

Am I performing?

How's my recovery?

Am I able to recover from these workouts?

How am I sleeping?

How is my energy?

How's my appetite?

And what is the scale doing?

So I'm looking at all these things.

I'm assessing how I subjectively feel