hey, is it possible for me to gain 1.5lbs/week?
I’m new to lifting also.
It’s been 3 weeks since i been on a mass gain diet, and gained 3 lbs. Is it possible for me to eat more to gain 1.5lbs/week? or is that too much and the extra food would turn to fat?
right now:
200g of protein
250-300g carbs(mostly veggies,bean,rice,bread)
fish oil
can i up it to:
250g protein
300-350g carb
Is that too much?
It’s possible though rare for novice and intermediate lifters to have spurts of even 5 lb retained added muscle in a week.
Aside from actual (that is to say, long-term retained true increase in muscle) unusually rapid growth such as that, it’s possible to add LBM that is in fact “just” glycogen and glycogen-associated water well over 3 lb in less time than a week from higher carb intake when having been flat. It’s not growth but in terms of measurement, it’s higher LBM.
If your above proposed diet has no fat (none is mentioned) besides the fish oil, then unless you are very small it is too low in calories (about 2200-2400 cal) and surely too low in fat. It is not necessarily too much protein and carbs, in fact, probably not.
measure gains over a longer period of time.
You can gain/lose significant amounts of weight due to factors completely unrelated to progress from your lifting.
Measuring weight under similar circumstances (Sunday morning, first thing after you piss) will help alleviate a good deal of this static.
I’d go for Dave Tate’s prescribed target of 30-40lbs in the first year.
It’s really gonna depend on genetics, how close you are to an optimal diet and training for your genetics, and how much of a beginner you are. I started at 200 in august and I just hit 230 last night (without water weight though i’m probably around 224ish, pure muscle gains are probably around 20lbs), but this is my first bulking period ever.
That’s roughly around a 1lb/week gain, although my diet could be more optimal - I give myself a lot of leeway with it. If I really had my diet nailed down, who knows, maybe it could have resulted in 1.5lbs/week gains or more.
I personally though would not set my sights that high since I know people who really have their diet nailed down but can’t make gains like that - genetics does play a factor although you should not let it limit you. Train hard and eat a lot, I would definitely up your carbs and definitely the protein - maybe even 300g or so.
Only when you start seeing fat gains are you gonna know if you’re eating too much. If you always are so worried that you are gonna eat too much and it’s gonna go to fat, then you’re definitely not gonna hit that goal.