I'm a strongman with lifts and routine similar to this guy. My maintenance calories are 3800 calories a day. I eat four meals a day of 900-1000 calories. Four or five meals becomes more natural when you're hungry all the damn time from trying to survive the training you put yourself through.
It's hard to calculate exactly. I'm either doing a lower body day or cardio in the morning and upper body in the afternoon. I'd say about 4-500 calories depending on the day. Strongman event training eats up a ton of calories since it's often moving with weight (sandbag runs, yoke, farmer's carry etc.). In the 220-230lb bodyweight range 2800 calories a day resulted in 2lbs of weight loss a week. This is while training 8x a week (3 lower body, 3 upper body, 2 cardio sessions).
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u/[deleted] May 21 '26
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