Char-Dawg, the thing that makes T-Mag the incredible resource it is, is the the different/opposing opinions of those who post. If everyone approached things the same way and said the same things, I’d probably want to go somewhere else. Feel free to disagree with me anytime. (grin)
A lot of women are afraid that lifting heavy will cause them to get big. I make the point that all they have to do is control scale weight (TWB) and that getting strong doesn’t require that they get big. In fact, I know of a little girl (105 lbs.) that can deadlift 349 pounds. She’s not big, just strong as an ox. In her case it’s got to be more of a CNS-muscular adaptation, rather than a hypertrophy adaptation.
If volume is high, I would imagine caloric intake would have to increase to maintain weight, but that would still maintenance, right?
At a certain point, I would imaagine that if the goal is to lift ever increasing weight that TBW would have to increase.
What really makes it interesting (a complicating factor) is what a person wants to do with their body composition while trying to increase strength.