I see no reason to get mean about it. But it takes a wee bit less than 300 cubic inches of muscle to weigh 10lb. Measure one of your thighs for surface area. If that one thigh grows one inch, I have gained just shy of 300 cubic inches on my one leg. NO they would not do that evenly, but I have two thighs and they are same size. One inch of growth is far from out of line. Now I have no idea how I could get that much growth out of my thighs without adding to the old gluteus maximus and what about my calf muscles?
I have yet to tough my upper body. Which by the why Im pretty sure was all you you guys were thinking about. Dudes do not forget your legs next time. Do you guys want to just admit you are fucking wimps if you can not gain ten pounds of muscle in a reasonable amount of time? I was thinking three months. Assuming you are not already close to your natural max. If you are, why are you even in this discussion? You know how long it took you to gain your first 10 lbs. And it was not years was it? Maybe you never did legs and yes 10 lbs all upper body is a lot of meat. Lower body not so much and both. Dudes it is not that hard, quit patting yourselves on that back for doing it.
What did you weigh when you started, what was your BF%, what did you weigh at the end, and what was your BF% at the end?
You make a lot of pronouncements without a lot of evidence. I’m willing to give you the fact that you may have been a fat bastard when you started, that it is easier if you are a fat bastard, but you still have not provided any quantifiable proof - just insults and glittering generalities…in other words, nothing new.
Bottom line, I’m pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about. You played high school football for some podunk town in the middle of bumfuck and you consider yourself an expert on nutrition and training.
I’m just asking you to prove me wrong - should be easy, right?
No one was mean until you just started name calling. No one said it can’t be done, just that 10 pounds of actual muscle is huge. Your math for your thigh is terrible. It would depend on length, shape of cross section and a number of other factors. And even then, you are refusing to discuss muscle and instead are reverting back to total body weight. Measuring your thigh would include fluid retention, veins, bone, ligaments, est.
To again put this in perspective, at one point when CT was at his most muscular he estimated he’d added about 35 pounds of muscle all together over his lifetime vs. being untrained. Adding almost 1 3rd of the amount of muscle CT has added is an enormous amount.
Fat free mass is a very transient thing and includes everything in your body that isn’t fat. Muscle is only one small part of that. I can add 10 pounds of fat free mass in an hour by drinking 1.25 gallons of water. And I’ve lost 15 pounds of it in a day cutting weight. All of that without adding or losing ANY appreciable muscle.
It is entirely clear by your last paragraph that you aren’t going to listen to what anyone else has to say and are going to keep talking about body-weight instead of muscle. It’s pretty clear you don’t understand the difference, so I’ll try one more time. Again, yes, 10 pounds of bodyweight isn’t that hard. However, not including fluid retention, to add 10 pounds of actual muscle you’d have to gain over 33 pounds of body-weight WITHOUT adding any fat at all. If you factor in ligament, bone growth ets you are probably in the 40 pounds of bodyweight range. And that’s if you can do it WITHOUT adding any fat. Now if we factor in that you are going to have to gain fat to add 40 pounds of lean weight, and you do a good job of bulking that probably puts you in the 60 pounds of bodyweight range.
Yes, for 10 pounds of muscle (like what you would buy from the butcher) for a hardworking intelligent bodybuilder, you are roughly looking at something like a 60 pound change in bodyweight. No, that isn’t easy.
