Calorie requirements depend on your personal goals which may be to:
- Gain fitness (e.g. strength, speed, endurance and / or agility)
- Gain weight:
- By gaining muscle, which may also include losing fat as muscle tissue is heavier than fat
- By gaining fat, and perhaps also gaining muscle
- Lose weight
- Maintain weight
- Modify body composition
Calorie requirements can be estimated by the following formula: