What % of calories should be fat?

cck

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Right now I'm trying to bulk... going at ~3000 cal/day, usually about 175g protein and 80g of fat (~25%). Is there some general consensus as to what % of calories should be fat for maximum gains? Thanks.

Chris
 
As long as you're getting EFAs and a minimum amount of other monounsaturated, polyunsaturated or even saturated fat (30-40gr ?), I really think percentages have muche less importance than what we are used to believe. Same with protein, take 1gr per lb and don't worry about percentages. Even carbs, you want as much as it is necessary to support a good workout and a fast recovery. The rest of your calories can be anything, unless you want to try macronutritient cycling.

For example, when I cut with 1800 kcals, I may get 50gr of fat per day, that is 25%. The same amount of fat on a 3000 kcal bulking diet is 15%. It doesn't really matter since in both cases I'll be taking adequate fat.
 
This is why I like amounts per lbkg bodyweight for estiamting calories

I havent really seen much around set figures, but 0.8-1g/kg is a nice area for fat to go.

Yaaay the metric system
 
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