I worked out your calorie intake of 3k by doing bodyweight in pounds x 18 which is around about what you aim for in terms of a lean bulk. x16 is maintenance and x 14 is weightloss.
Aslong as your foods are clean which they are, fat gain will be minimal, if any, especially as you still have noob gains to come. There are other ways of doing it, such as carb cycling, intermittent fasting, higher and lower calorie intakes, but when your just beginning i think its all to complicated. To be honest, there really isnt much wrong with how you look now IMO, bulking will allow you to add muscle mass, which will eventually lead to lower fat levels, and you will have extra muscle on your frame too.
If your really worried about fat gain, drop your calories by 500 on non workout days, and have 3k on workout days. This way your weekly calorie intake will be closer to maintenance, leading to very very small fat gain, but probably slowly muscle gain too.
Being skinny and lean is less appealing IMO than having some muscle structure with a little fat on top. If you start bulking now, you wont regret it come next summer, but by next year if you start cutting now, you will have wished you had bulked, which I can almost guarantee will be the case as robbie explained on the last page
Its totally upto you, if you want to cut then taper your calories down to about 2k over a couple weeks and do a HIIT routine, its only what I would do in your shoes.
Aslong as your foods are clean which they are, fat gain will be minimal, if any, especially as you still have noob gains to come. There are other ways of doing it, such as carb cycling, intermittent fasting, higher and lower calorie intakes, but when your just beginning i think its all to complicated. To be honest, there really isnt much wrong with how you look now IMO, bulking will allow you to add muscle mass, which will eventually lead to lower fat levels, and you will have extra muscle on your frame too.
If your really worried about fat gain, drop your calories by 500 on non workout days, and have 3k on workout days. This way your weekly calorie intake will be closer to maintenance, leading to very very small fat gain, but probably slowly muscle gain too.
Being skinny and lean is less appealing IMO than having some muscle structure with a little fat on top. If you start bulking now, you wont regret it come next summer, but by next year if you start cutting now, you will have wished you had bulked, which I can almost guarantee will be the case as robbie explained on the last page
Its totally upto you, if you want to cut then taper your calories down to about 2k over a couple weeks and do a HIIT routine, its only what I would do in your shoes.
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