Starting Strength Workout and Caloreis

Hello,

I just started the starting strength workout and wondered what I should up my calories by to stay at a 500 deficit.  My workout schedule right now is gym 3 days a weeek and steady state cardio 2 days a week for 30 minutes.  Jogging and gym days are not the same days.  Also, I would like to encourage anyone starting a lifting program to read the Starting Strenght book.  It is a great resource for learning lifts.

Mark

I think keeping at most a 500 cal deficit would be a good idea.

Everyone has such great things to say about SS - I think I'll try it after I'm done with NROLFW.

You had an old post about lifting with dumbbells - did you find a place to use a barbell for SS?

Amethystgirl,

I did end up joining a gym.  My gym at work only has dumbbells and I didn't feel I would be able to do Starting Strength or New Rules without a barbell.  Actually, I initially bought the New Rules book but was afraid of doing the lifts wrong.  I bought the Starting Strength book as a resource to learn the lifts but ended up going with the Starting Strength program instead. 

Mark

That sounds great, Mark - let us know how it goes

Like I mentioned earlier.  I just started the Starting Strength workout at the gym.  I have about 2 weeks under my belt.  The alternating workout is Squat/Press/Deadlift and Squat/Bench Press/Clean on MWF.  It usually takes me about 60 - 90 minutes to do this workout.  I do a warm up set with light weights then a work set of 5 sets with 5 reps per step.  On TTh I jog for 30 t0 40 minutes at a 9 to 10 minute pace.  I am 5' 9" tall and wiegh 205.  My main goal for working out is to lose weight.  Right now I am eating 2426 per day and add calories for working out.  I am able to calculate the number of calories for jogging easily using duration and pace.  What is a reasonable number to use for calories burned when I workout at the gym? Thanks for your suggestions.