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3400 Calorie Meal Plan
for Muscle Building and Weight Gain
Here's a 7-day sample week with three meals and a snack a day, averaging 3,378 Calories.
Build your own day below, or jump to the full week.
This 3400 Calorie Meal Plan gives you three meals and a snack a day for seven days. It averages 3,378 Calories, with 241g protein, 131g fat and 350g carbs (including 61g of fiber). Protein is high for a general plan, at 29% of Calories.
How many Calories you need depends on your age, sex, size and how active you
are. Here's what 3,400 Calories a day would mean for four example
people, using the same Mifflin-St Jeor estimate as our Calorie calculator.
Example person
Maintenance Calories
At 3,400 Calories a day
Woman, 35, 5'5", 150 lb, desk job
1,650
About 1,750 Calories over maintenance, or roughly 3.5 lb gained a week. That's faster than most people want to gain.
Same woman, works out 3 to 4 times a week
1,890
About 1,510 Calories over maintenance, or roughly 3.0 lb gained a week. That's faster than most people want to gain.
Man, 35, 5'10", 180 lb, desk job
2,110
About 1,290 Calories over maintenance, or roughly 2.6 lb gained a week. That's faster than most people want to gain.
Same man, works out 3 to 4 times a week
2,420
About 980 Calories over maintenance, or roughly 2.0 lb gained a week. That's faster than most people want to gain.
These are estimates, and everyone's different. Treat them as a starting point,
and adjust based on how your weight changes over a few weeks.