Add muscle without gaining too muach weight?

I've reached my goal weight, and have been maintaining for over 2 years now.  My body still doesn't look the way I want so I've decided to try to pack on a cople punds of muscle to see if it helps.  The idea of cutting my cardio down to 30 mins, increasing my calorie intake, and adding pounds of muscle terrifies me.

Has anyone done this and not ended up looking worse?  I don't want to gain fat!  I've worked too hard!

You want to add muscle without gaining weight?
How's that even possible???
Listen, when you start to weight train, you're going to have to eat more than you are to gain muscle. Otherwise, after lifting weights, your body has nothing to build new tissue with because it needs to use the food that you ARE eating just to maintain regular life functions and such. You won't gain fat, but you will gain weight, not clothes sizes though, so don't worry. Just muscle weight.

I went throught a one month muscle building cycle a few months ago.  Yes you will gain muscle, yes you will gain A LITTLE fat.  When you trim your calories back the fat will come off in about the same amount of time it took to put it on, like a month.  JUst don't be surprised when you end up being 3 pounds heavier than before, that's the muscle, not extra fat sticking to you.

I say ignore the scale while weight training. It's only a number! Pay attention to the changes in your body and the areas you are toning. Of course you dont want to fluff back up, but the scale is going to show you muscle weight. You'll have less fat tho. Dontcha worry :)

Throw the scale in the closet. Pick up some weights and feed your body well. Eat protein and healthy fats and stop counting calories because you won't build muscle with a deficit. You will feel and look so much better after strenght training. The scale only measures one dimension of your physique remember that. You might wind up losing inches and gaining a litte weight but you can have gorgeous sculpted muscles. Don't be afraid. Just do it!

I found a simple strategy for this problem. Instead of lifting weights I do cardio excercises that build muscle like kick boxing, tae bo or any advanced cardio workout that foces you to do kicks, squats and intesive ab work. This way I don't gain wait but loose weight very quickly. I get a six pack of abs and some killer quads while slimming down at the same time. Tae bo actually helps me shed the layer of fat on my abs so your natural muscles (believe me they are in there) show through. Before I discovered kickboxing I used to gain weight from weight lifting, but now I actually lose weigh and gain some curvy muscles at the same time.

I do a "Body Pump" class three times a week. This is free weights to music.  This is from the Les Mills program, franchised in thousands of gyms all over the world.  It is a high repetition weights class... very popular.

I've been doing this almost two years. I am still lean looking... BMI of 19.5.  I'm 52 next month, but at the lowest body weight of my adult life. I am definately more toned. Definately stronger.   Like any class, you get out of it only what you put in.  High repetition is more for endurance strength, doesn't build bulk.