Gaining One Pound a Week for a Year?

Training Bodybuilding
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I think it’s stupid to make absolutes on something like muscle gain. It is highly individual and I think it varies a great deal for the same person. I hate it when people try to be all sciency and say “no you cannot gain any more than ½lb of dry muscle per week… because I know everyone’s genetics”. Not to mention it’s dumb as shit to try and actually base your whole diet around ‘optimising’ the amount of muscle you’ll gain in a week.

You simply cannot accurately predict the exact quantity of something as non linear as muscle. Putting hard and fast rules like that only serve to limit potential progress, imo.

Also, I will admit I don’t know the details here (and please correct me if I am wrong), but I doubt most of the pro’s gave a shit exactly how much muscle they could build in a week or even a year when they started training seriously. It seems like they put most of their attention on just getting their poundages up and eating enough to fuel that kind of training and get the physical growth from it.

I think agonising over exactly how much muscle can be gained ‘optimally’ is mostly for the people who can’t seem to eat enough or train hard enough to make a whole lot of progress in the first place.

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18 inch arms in 5 years is “gifted”? lol on someone 5’8 maybe.

lol and im the genetic defect?

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you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
18 inch arms in 5 years is “gifted”? lol on someone 5’8 maybe.

lol and im the genetic defect?[/quote]

Do you have arms over 18"?

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that. [/quote]

Quoted, for bull.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that. [/quote]

So, I’m checking my weight log, and exactly 1 year ago, I weighed 63lbs less than I do now. Are you telling me that I gained 10lbs of muscle, and 53 of fat? This is my 2nd year I’m talking about, if it matters.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
18 inch arms in 5 years is “gifted”? lol on someone 5’8 maybe.

lol and im the genetic defect?

Do you have arms over 18"?

[/quote]

no theyre 17 cold, which even still seems small. ive been training 2 years seriously. by the time i hit 5 they better be a shitload bigger especially considering ill be jucing before the 5 year margin anyway.

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[quote]Zund wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that.

So, I’m checking my weight log, and exactly 1 year ago, I weighed 63lbs less than I do now. Are you telling me that I gained 10lbs of muscle, and 53 of fat? This is my 2nd year I’m talking about, if it matters. [/quote]

you mustve made a mistake. or youre on steroids. you probaly dont even lift though.

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This is getting ridiculous.

I used to believe “you can only do this or that”. I used to believe you could stay lean and bulk, gain muscle and lose fat. I used to be a small bastard too. No coincidence there.

For the first two years of my trained life, I stagnated in the gym and didn’t gain shit. Maybe a few pounds here or there. Newbie CNS strength increases of course, but no muscle volume. Plateaus kicked in early and hard.

I was just skinny and weak, afraid to eat cause I might lose my definition, unable to think clearly that there in fact was no definition without muscle, no growth without growth!

Two years to learn one lesson.

Seven months ago, I saw a picture of Frank Zane that kicked my ass into gear. I have gained more than 40 pounds in seven months. If you do the math, I’m on pace to surpass 52 pounds in a year. Oh noes but that’s impossible!!!

7-site caliper measurements put me at 190 @12% in March. I’m currently at 234@18% in October. Do the math, that’s 25 pounds of muscle, 19 pounds of fat. OMG fat eww!!! Look, if a strong old guy like Dan John can drop 19 pounds of flab in a month, can’t a young guy with skinny genetics do it even easier?

I’ve also added 100 pounds to my bench, 140 pounds to my deadlift, and vastly improved my cardiovascular health thanks to the stairmill. What, but fat makes your cardio health worse?!! Sure in the long term, for sedentary people! Look, I’ve gained more muscle in seven months than I would have gained in seven YEARS by actually eating!

I’m just sick of it. It makes me extra sad that I used to think this way. IF you want to get bigger, lift heavy and eat all the damn time. I eat at the desk, in the car, in the bathroom, all the time. If you haven’t thrown up from overeating, you don’t really know how much you can eat.

THAT’S a rant for you.

-Sab

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Zund wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that.

So, I’m checking my weight log, and exactly 1 year ago, I weighed 63lbs less than I do now. Are you telling me that I gained 10lbs of muscle, and 53 of fat? This is my 2nd year I’m talking about, if it matters.

you mustve made a mistake. or youre on steroids. you probaly dont even lift though.[/quote]

No mistake, no steroids, I’m 17 and lift/eat my ass off. Still saying 10lbs muscle, 53 fat?

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
18 inch arms in 5 years is “gifted”? lol on someone 5’8 maybe.

lol and im the genetic defect?

Do you have arms over 18"?

no theyre 17 cold, which even still seems small. ive been training 2 years seriously. by the time i hit 5 they better be a shitload bigger especially considering ill be jucing before the 5 year margin anyway.[/quote]

So, you don’t have 18" arms yet you think getting 18" is “average”?

I know people with genetics that are decent who can’t get their arms that big. I also know mine were that size before 3 years had past.

Yes, if someone can build arms larger than 18" early on in their training, they are generally considered “gifted” when it comes to bodybuilding.

It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t know this. Most people should be able to get their arms to 17". Very few are going to get them past 18" and even fewer could get them past 20".

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I gained 50lbs in a year, went from 180 to 237,and kept a 34in waist although they are a little snug now. I now have a 600 pull and 500 squat, my bench still lacks though.

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[quote]Sabastian525 wrote:
This is getting ridiculous.

I used to believe “you can only do this or that”. I used to believe you could stay lean and bulk, gain muscle and lose fat. I used to be a small bastard too. No coincidence there.

For the first two years of my trained life, I stagnated in the gym and didn’t gain shit. Maybe a few pounds here or there. Newbie CNS strength increases of course, but no muscle volume. Plateaus kicked in early and hard.

I was just skinny and weak, afraid to eat cause I might lose my definition, unable to think clearly that there in fact was no definition without muscle, no growth without growth!

Two years to learn one lesson.

Seven months ago, I saw a picture of Frank Zane that kicked my ass into gear. I have gained more than 40 pounds in seven months. If you do the math, I’m on pace to surpass 52 pounds in a year. Oh noes but that’s impossible!!!

7-site caliper measurements put me at 190 @12% in March. I’m currently at 234@18% in October. Do the math, that’s 25 pounds of muscle, 19 pounds of fat. OMG fat eww!!! Look, if a strong old guy like Dan John can drop 19 pounds of flab in a month, can’t a young guy with skinny genetics do it even easier?

I’ve also added 100 pounds to my bench, 140 pounds to my deadlift, and vastly improved my cardiovascular health thanks to the stairmill. What, but fat makes your cardio health worse?!! Sure in the long term, for sedentary people! Look, I’ve gained more muscle in seven months than I would have gained in seven YEARS by actually eating!

I’m just sick of it. It makes me extra sad that I used to think this way. IF you want to get bigger, lift heavy and eat all the damn time. I eat at the desk, in the car, in the bathroom, all the time. If you haven’t thrown up from overeating, you don’t really know how much you can eat.

THAT’S a rant for you.

-Sab[/quote]

I’ve been saying this for 8 years on this site. When is everyone else going to figure it out?

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that. [/quote]

Wow…seriously are you retarded or just really really slow? Everything you have written is so uneducated. I feel ashamed to be from the same state as you. I feel even more ashamed that your a member on this great site!

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
18 inch arms in 5 years is “gifted”? lol on someone 5’8 maybe.

lol and im the genetic defect?

Do you have arms over 18"?

no theyre 17 cold, which even still seems small. ive been training 2 years seriously. by the time i hit 5 they better be a shitload bigger especially considering ill be jucing before the 5 year margin anyway.[/quote]

So that means that using your math, in the next 3 years you will add around 16lbs. Good luck with that.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that. [/quote]

I don’t normally poke my head in the BBing section, though I read voraciously, as there are so many people here with much more experience and knowledge than myself.

But L? I think you’re retarded. As in, pants-on-head. I started lifting in 1999, when I was 115#. By 2004, I was 200#. Same BF (~12%ish). Took a year and a half off while being crippled, dropped to 190 at 22% fat. Got up to 210 at 8% while pulling double BW deadlift.

The vast majority of the time, I was doing 12-14 hours a week of karate and using either full-body or upper/lower splits.

I have trained, and currently work with a few clients, who have in their first years of training added around 30-40# with little fat.

As for me, my weight fluctuates over the course of year, sometimes down and back 20 pounds. Various back injuries and other . . . issues are what I have to thank for that.

I’ve yet to do a gear cycle, but I have used PH (two cycles of MAG-10), AFTER I had achieved my 210/8% mark.

Perhaps you should click the “reset” button instead of the “submit” when you have a brain-fart of that magnitude.

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Good luck with that.

[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
no theyre 17 cold, which even still seems small. ive been training 2 years seriously. by the time i hit 5 they better be a shitload bigger especially considering ill be jucing before the 5 year margin anyway.[/quote]

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you can only gain 10 lbs a year, and after your 3rd year you can only gain 2 pounds. you can quote me on that. [/quote]

Good thing you didn’t become a trainer, because you’re just down right retarded.

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I gained 40 lbs in 6 months eating clean and a lot of it. Of course it is my first 6 months working out like crazy. I’m not ripped or anything but I am happy with my results so far there are pics in the profile.
I see no reason to limit yourself at all.

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That depends on who you are, or rather, who you turn out to be. A question that won’t be answered until you try to find out who the hell you really are by becoming what you can be.

Make any sense, youngblood?

[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
From what I have been taught, you can only gain, naturally, a 1/4 to 1/2 pound of DRY muscle per week and that is if you do everything right.

You can gain 52 lbs of BODYWEIGHT in a year - no problem! Shit, you could do that in a few months if you wanted to! Lift and eat like a damn maniac. Don’t expect to not look like a fat whale. You will gain a great deal of muscle and will have a lot of leverage in your lifts too. [/quote]