Hi! I've been watching a bunch of the videos and have been going to the gym consistenly for the last 6 months. I was happily losing fat and gaining some muscle but I've hit the point where I want to start a bulk (preferrably a clean bulk). The problem I'm having is that I am very active outside of the gym, which is making the nutritional aspect very difficult for me. I know that in order to gain muscle I need to have a surplus of 250-500 calories in my diet. My resting BMR is about 2100 Kcal and most of the calculators online have indicated I should probably be eating around 36-3800 calories a day in order to be in surplus. That would be totally fine (though its quite a lot still)... but that doesn't generally include my sports!
For example, there was a day last week where I worked out, played volleyball for 3 hours, and an hour of racquetball. The calculators online/fitbit were telling me I need to eat over 5000 calories that day!
I'm wondering if this is a normal situation, is it possible to offset my heavy cardio (read: sport days) with more food on my non-sport days? Or should I just be eating like crazy? I'm also confused on how to get a good calculation of how many calories I should be eating to offset sports in general.
Any help would be SUPER appreciated. Thanks so much for all the information!!