Attn: Prof, AA, HELP

Training Bodybuilding
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Hey dude

I’m 6ft 3in and 242lbs. I’m probably at about 20% body fat. I’m a few months away from 30. I remember being in your shoes. I didn’t start gaining until I started stuffing my face like a madman. My stomach was constantly bloated. A typical day did and still does look like this.

Breakfast
4eggs with cheese
2pieces of toast
Big glass of whole milk

Snack
Apple
Big glass of milk

Lunch
varies but could be
Two cheese burgers
2 cans of tuna
Big glass of milk
veggies

Dinner
Lots of meat
veggies
milk

snack
Milk
2 cans of tuna

Sometimes it varies with more food or less. When I was younger I’d eat two 20oz steaks at dinner and have milk and a sweat potatoe.

You may try adding a poptart for breakfast.

Many times if I wake up to go to the bathroom I’ll go have another glass of milk.

I also contribute squats and really focusing on deadlifts to a lot of the weight gain. I did a lot of other lifts but once I added deadlifts something “magical” happened for me. That was me and it doesn’t happen for everyone but you may give it a go. I’m not even close to my goals but I’m getting there.

Take care and happy lifting.

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I’m your height and know how frustrating all of the “your sooo skinny” comments can be, even comming from people with good intensions.

I’d say that another 15lbs will get you to the “he trains” look with your shirt off.

Another 35lbs untill you get to the “he trains” look with your shirt on.

And another 50lbs untill you get to the “he’s jacked” look.

I second the notion of focusing on your deadlift. It really does do amazing things for development. Of course, keep doing the other compounds and isolation arm work too.

Don’t train more than 4 days a week. I’ve lost more mass due to overzealous burnout than I have gained by those extra workouts. I feel that guys with our build burnout way easier than the traditional mesomorphic built guys.

Also, once I stopped going to failure on a regular basis my gains jumped up. this falls in line with the burnout thing.

I’d lower direct ab training to only once or twice per week. This leaves more “fuel” in your tank for more constructive training (get it!).

Natural peanut butter is our friend while gaining. Also, since your funding is low, start ordering the big 5lb tubs o’ whey.

Don’t waste any money on anything but the basics at this point. I found out the hard way that untill you’ve built a solid foundation none of the “upper-level” supplements really do much of anything. In order of importance after food: basic protien powder, Surge, fish oil, creatine, multi/ ZMA.

Hope this helped.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
TDog305 wrote:
conwict wrote:
looks like your scapulae are a bit winged and the humeri rotated internally maybe, I recently fixed those problems on myself and my shoulders are much wider looking, and my lats (which are really developed for my size) also seem wider.

just keep it up man, you DEF dont look 17% bf

How do you make that assessment based on two shitty pictures?

Exactly. This has been discussed before so much I wasn’t even going to respond before this. I get tired of seeing complex diagnosis of someone’s skeleton based off of a crappy pic on the internet.
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I realize I’m dragging this up from over a year ago, but I think it bears a response. I missed it before.

I didn’t tell the guy he had osteoporosis, I didn’t tell him he had scoliosis, I didn’t tell him he had muscular dystrophy…

I basically said his posture looked a little bad, and used some slightly technical terms.

I didn’t tell him he had to go get surgery, or do anything specific…I told him to look into the possibility.

I didn’t diagnose him with anything.

More people have the two problems I mentioned than don’t. Seriously.

I just don’t see what the difference is between me saying “Yo Bra u have shitty posture in that pic, put on 20 lbs and improve your posture and the gurls at the beech will want you, it werked for me” and using more technical terms.

At any rate I’m sorry I offended your sense of morality, Professor X and other dude. Get off your high horse, his posture did indicate those problems in the pictures.

His genetic capacity to build muscle, and look good at a given height/weight, is much more individual than whether or not he has bad posture. It’s so obvious his posture is bad…is it a diagnosis? Hell no.

I made it clear that he “looked” that way in the pics, and might want to look into it.

Conversely, giving him a recipe to “add X amount of weight and you’ll look like my friend who is jacked” is idiotic.