Hey all.
As we all know, success leaves clues.
To look like a bodybuilder you must train like a bodybuilder hitting all muscle groups hard and heavy.
I started this journey as an underfed 140lber and have gained 40 pounds in less then a year. Granted all of it is not muscle but I can still see all of my abs and all of my lifts have gone up.
During this time I had no access to supplements. No whey, no creatine, no fish oil.
I had to eat my heart out.
Were talking
8 eggs with cereal and half a gallon of milk for breakfast
a sandwhich 3 hours later
burgers and more milk for lunch
milk and cookies post workout
steak and pasta for dinner
I grew and all my lifts sky rocketed. A few months ago I could not squat or bench 135lbs. I now man handle 225 bench pressing and rep 315 on squats.
As you all know this is not what bodybuilders eat like so after I have began making some money I have began supplementing with whey protein and much cleaner foods and have cut out the milk.
All my lifts have stalled. My weight has stalled and I look fatter then I did when I was downing milk. My muscles are flat and no matter how much rice steak and protein powder I eat I dont feel the same in the gym as I did when I was eating more like a 300 lb lineman lol.
I have begun eating the way I used to and my lifts are all increasing again and my pumps in the gym are a hundred times better.
Although idolizing the pros is a sure way to learn a few things. I urge all skinny dudes who are in the same boat to start thinking more in terms of eating like a pro lineman then a bodybuilder.
It has made all the difference in the world in my training and physique.
Whole foods > supplements. That’s why they are called supplements. Implement them when your diet is in check, although there is nothing wrong with something like Surge Workout Fuel to get that extra boost pre workout.
Edit: I don’t count things like vitamins, minerals, and fish oil as supplements. Everybody should take those.
Ideally if you can afford to eat lean meats and complex carbs, or lean meats and healthy fats every meal I think that would maximise your results…A shake with some whey, eggs, natty PB and whetever else isn’t a bad meal replacement option but in a perfect world, I would be eating chicken/lean cuts of beef, brown rice/yams, mixed vegs, 6 or so times per day.
OP, I think you’re confusing a bodybuilder’s CONTEST diet with their “normal” diet. BIG difference there man. But good work thus far, keep it up.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OP, I think you’re confusing a bodybuilder’s CONTEST diet with their “normal” diet. BIG difference there man. But good work thus far, keep it up. [/quote]
Not a contest diet by any means. I was eating steak and rice about 4 times a day and oatmeal for breakfast and shit like that but honestly their is no way I can get in enough calories for my body to have a reason to grow that way. I would literally have to eat every 1 hour. Drinking milk helps a ton. Eggs and steak are still a huge part of my diet but adding in things like milk and some crap has made a major difference.
Cookies post workout? Even pizza is better than that, much better.
[quote]Elite0423 wrote:
As you all know this is not what bodybuilders eat like [/quote]
It’s not? Short of the cookies (empty calories are a waste of fucking time) Mike Mattarazo wrote he ate pretty much just like that to gain most of his initial size. Cedric McMillan just wrote similar in MD magazine.
Like H4F wrote earlier, there is a HUGE difference between how a bodybuilder eats to gain that initial mass and how they eat when trying to lean up for a contest.
Most really big guys ate just like you wrote or more to get big in the first place.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Elite0423 wrote:
As you all know this is not what bodybuilders eat like [/quote]
It’s not? Short of the cookies (empty calories are a waste of fucking time) Mike Mattarazo wrote he ate pretty much just like that to gain most of his initial size. Cedric McMillan just wrote similar in MD magazine.
Like H4F wrote earlier, there is a HUGE difference between how a bodybuilder eats to gain that initial mass and how they eat when trying to lean up for a contest.
Most really big guys ate just like you wrote or more to get big in the first place.
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Really? I guess I was thrown off by all the info when I joined. The difference has been night and day. Hitting the gym six days a week really wore me out when I was eating the way I was before. Thank god for steak and milk. the cookies post workout werent a regular thing but honestly i can probably eat an ice cream truck post workout on leg days haha. my new thing post workout has been chipoltle. 2 double steak burritos. if i cant grow off that then i might as well just quit. 190 here i come.
only I like lamb over beef
and burritos over burgers
burgers are sick!!!