Still skinny, but if 145lbs thats all you want, then you gotta eat CALORIES, whether is putting on 100lbs or 1lb you gotta eat more calories than what your body burns in a day.
STEROIDS!!! you fucking cheater!
[quote]Paul1234 wrote:
I’m dead after this. [/quote]
you’re right.
It’s just like watching a train wreck.
Ah so I got the 30 pound dumbbell, it’s heavier than I figured but I can still pull off 7 bicep curls. I’m quite happy with that. 
[quote]Paul1234 wrote:
roybot wrote:
Paul1234 wrote:
I’m tiny compared to you, maybe. However in general, no I’m not. Plenty of people at work are smaller than me. I don’t see how where you live could be that different.
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Look, facts!!!
You are small. Even if you gain 15 lbs, you’ll still be below average weight. On a side note, you don’t really care what you weigh, you care how you look. I’m assuming you want to look lean and muscular, and everyone on here is telling you that if you want that look, you need to gain at least 25lbs of muscle, probably more.
As other posters have pointed out, if you hope to build muscle, you need to eat more. On the off chance that you aren’t a troll, I’m going to explain calories to you and try to point you in the right direction for nutrition.
A calorie is a measure of energy. Your body consumes energy to function. There are two sources of energy your body has access to are food or body tissues such as fat, muscle, and bone. In both cases, the fuel source is broken down to provide energy. Of these two sources, the human body prefers food to body tissue for survival issues. However, if food is not present, the body will start to break down tissue to obtain the nutrients needed to survive. Also, the metabolism will slow down to reduce the energy needed for survival, increasing the chance of surviving until food becomes available again. If excessive food is consumed, that body will store the extra energy as tissue. In sedentary individuals, this tissue tends to be fat, but if stress is placed on the body, the nutrients will be used to rebuild and re-enforce tissue damaged by that stress. Some of the extra nutrients may still be stored as fat, but not very many.
So, if you are lifting heavy weights in a caloric deficit, a few things are happening. 1. Your body is consuming tissue in order to meet its energy requirements. 2. Your body is attempting to rebuild and re-enforce your muscles to compensate for the stress placed on them. In heavy beginners, it is possible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, due to the overabundance of spare fat tissue and the lack of muscle. In general though, the best that can happen is that your body doesn’t consume as much muscle tissue as it would without lifting. 3. Your metabolism is slowing down to try to adjust to your new intake level. Eventually, you’ll stop losing weight, and will need to reduce your intake even further in order to continue.
Now lets look at the behavior of the body while lifting heavy weights in a caloric surplus. 1. Your body is attempting to rebuild and re-enforce your muscles to compensate for the stress placed on them. It does this by taking the energy you get from food and using it to build new muscle tissue. 2. Your metabolism is increasing, due to the increase in lean mass. 3. Extra energy not used to build muscle is stored as fat.
Now, the amount of fat gained is going to be determined by many factors. If you look, you can find a lot of threads about clean bulking verse “dirty” bulking. In general, if you are interested in maximum muscle gain as soon as possible, you want to overestimate the number of calories you need, in order to assure that you always have enough fuel available to build muscle. This is the “just eat it” school of thought, and while it does lead to more fat gain, a whole lot of really big guys got that way by getting ignoring body fat % for a while and eating 5,6,7 thousand calls a day. Often times, this means eating foods that may not be the healthiest choice in order to get enough calories. The clean bulk school doesn’t want to get heavy, and would rather take slower muscle gains then put on large amounts of fat. By eating solid food choices is slight excess, they are able to build muscle without significantly increasing their bf%. I’m not going to get into the debate about which is a better approach here, although in the interest of disclosure I will say that I’m in the “just eat it” crowd. While I do try to eat clean, I have my fair share of burgers, pizzas, etc.
So, if you’re actually interested in making progress, accept that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and that you are small. Then go to the beginners forum, read the stickies, and read the thread titled “Starting Strength: The Guide”. Start with the bar for weight on the exercises, follow the program for at least 12 weeks, and eat a minimum of 3000 cals a day. Ask questions as much as you need to, but remember that compaired to most of the people on here, you are small, inexperianced, and uneducated. Put in the time and effort, and listen to what the older guys have to say, and you will eventually be big, experianced, and well educated.
my left arm- not as strong as my right but coming along nicely :]
[quote]Paul1234 wrote:
Okay so I workout every two days, and I’m skipping lunch at work. I eat a fair breakfast and supper though, so I estimate my calorie intake at 1,500 daily, and with the added burning of 4 miles a day walking, I’d say I’m burning at least 2,100 calories a day. So that’s a very good calorie defecit right there.
I only want to lose say, 3-4 pounds of fat. That will get me down to about 8-9% body fat. Then it’s just about gaining a little more muscle mass and I’m golden, woohoo.[/quote]
Wow,1,500 calories a day? I’m cutting for a figure competition and I eat more than that. Of course I also could also walk on stage at 8-9% BF and I would still weigh more than you. Let me guess, you routine currently consists of chest/arms/chest/arms?
Good luck with trying to gain those 15 lbs…
if you last any longer than march o this year training you will look back at what yuou have said on this forum and cringe
[quote]ninjaboy wrote:
Paul1234 wrote:
roybot wrote:
Paul1234 wrote:
I’m tiny compared to you, maybe. However in general, no I’m not. Plenty of people at work are smaller than me. I don’t see how where you live could be that different.
Look, facts!!!
You are small. Even if you gain 15 lbs, you’ll still be below average weight. On a side note, you don’t really care what you weigh, you care how you look. I’m assuming you want to look lean and muscular, and everyone on here is telling you that if you want that look, you need to gain at least 25lbs of muscle, probably more.
As other posters have pointed out, if you hope to build muscle, you need to eat more. On the off chance that you aren’t a troll, I’m going to explain calories to you and try to point you in the right direction for nutrition.
A calorie is a measure of energy. Your body consumes energy to function. There are two sources of energy your body has access to are food or body tissues such as fat, muscle, and bone. In both cases, the fuel source is broken down to provide energy. Of these two sources, the human body prefers food to body tissue for survival issues. However, if food is not present, the body will start to break down tissue to obtain the nutrients needed to survive. Also, the metabolism will slow down to reduce the energy needed for survival, increasing the chance of surviving until food becomes available again. If excessive food is consumed, that body will store the extra energy as tissue. In sedentary individuals, this tissue tends to be fat, but if stress is placed on the body, the nutrients will be used to rebuild and re-enforce tissue damaged by that stress. Some of the extra nutrients may still be stored as fat, but not very many.
So, if you are lifting heavy weights in a caloric deficit, a few things are happening. 1. Your body is consuming tissue in order to meet its energy requirements. 2. Your body is attempting to rebuild and re-enforce your muscles to compensate for the stress placed on them. In heavy beginners, it is possible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, due to the overabundance of spare fat tissue and the lack of muscle. In general though, the best that can happen is that your body doesn’t consume as much muscle tissue as it would without lifting. 3. Your metabolism is slowing down to try to adjust to your new intake level. Eventually, you’ll stop losing weight, and will need to reduce your intake even further in order to continue.
Now lets look at the behavior of the body while lifting heavy weights in a caloric surplus. 1. Your body is attempting to rebuild and re-enforce your muscles to compensate for the stress placed on them. It does this by taking the energy you get from food and using it to build new muscle tissue. 2. Your metabolism is increasing, due to the increase in lean mass. 3. Extra energy not used to build muscle is stored as fat.
Now, the amount of fat gained is going to be determined by many factors. If you look, you can find a lot of threads about clean bulking verse “dirty” bulking. In general, if you are interested in maximum muscle gain as soon as possible, you want to overestimate the number of calories you need, in order to assure that you always have enough fuel available to build muscle. This is the “just eat it” school of thought, and while it does lead to more fat gain, a whole lot of really big guys got that way by getting ignoring body fat % for a while and eating 5,6,7 thousand calls a day. Often times, this means eating foods that may not be the healthiest choice in order to get enough calories. The clean bulk school doesn’t want to get heavy, and would rather take slower muscle gains then put on large amounts of fat. By eating solid food choices is slight excess, they are able to build muscle without significantly increasing their bf%. I’m not going to get into the debate about which is a better approach here, although in the interest of disclosure I will say that I’m in the “just eat it” crowd. While I do try to eat clean, I have my fair share of burgers, pizzas, etc.
So, if you’re actually interested in making progress, accept that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and that you are small. Then go to the beginners forum, read the stickies, and read the thread titled “Starting Strength: The Guide”. Start with the bar for weight on the exercises, follow the program for at least 12 weeks, and eat a minimum of 3000 cals a day. Ask questions as much as you need to, but remember that compaired to most of the people on here, you are small, inexperianced, and uneducated. Put in the time and effort, and listen to what the older guys have to say, and you will eventually be big, experianced, and well educated. [/quote]
Ha, well, thanks for at least being serious about this. Why not, it’s not like I’m in a huge rush.
[quote]Paul1234 wrote:
Ha, well, thanks for at least being serious about this. Why not, it’s not like I’m in a huge rush. :D[/quote]
Fair enough, although you should still aim to make progress. There’s no reason why you couldn’t add those 10-15 of muscle in the next 4-6 months if you follow a good program. Also, looking at your profile pic, do you do any sort of martial art, or are you just goofing around?
How has the OP got 3.6? Has the world gone mad?
OP read the articles on this site. And forget the nonsense you believe is fact. Whether you want to gain 10 lbs. or 70 lbs. you have to do the same exact thing, just for different periods of time.
[quote]Intersweat wrote:
How has the OP got 3.6? Has the world gone mad?[/quote]
He started out with a 10.
What is more distressing is the fact that someone like this actually posts on a formerly-serious-bbing website, and no one treats its a troll post. That or we officially have NO standards as of this point.
What is EVEN more distressing is that someone is wasting time giving this guy advice.
Speaks volumes about the quality of posters on here of late, those asking for help as well as those dishing it out.
[quote]Intersweat wrote:
How has the OP got 3.6? Has the world gone mad?[/quote]
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
What is EVEN more distressing is that someone is wasting time giving this guy advice.
Speaks volumes about the quality of posters on here of late, those asking for help as well as those dishing it out.
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What I do with my time is my business, so bite me. Or do you disagree with any of the advice I’ve give? I’m well aware that I may be feeding a troll. Worst case scenario, I’m wasting my time in an amusing manor, best case, this guy actually learns something.
Dude, my post wasn’t a dig at you.
However you are feeding a troll, and I hope you realize that.
[quote]ninjaboy wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
What is EVEN more distressing is that someone is wasting time giving this guy advice.
Speaks volumes about the quality of posters on here of late, those asking for help as well as those dishing it out.
What I do with my time is my business, so bite me. Or do you disagree with any of the advice I’ve give? I’m well aware that I may be feeding a troll. Worst case scenario, I’m wasting my time in an amusing manor, best case, this guy actually learns something.
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[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Dude, my post wasn’t a dig at you.
However you are feeding a troll, and I hope you realize that.
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Ah, sorry, my bad. I know he’s probably a troll, but hey, it’s either this or freecell, so…
[quote]Intersweat wrote:
How has the OP got 3.6? Has the world gone mad?[/quote]
I gave him a 10. There isn’t an option for an 11, what was I supposed to do??
EXCELLENT PROGRESS!
try different variations of pushups as well…
on your knees
elevated feet
on a crowded highway