i need to gain weight. i eat about 3000 calories a day and i notice minimum results. should i take a break from working out for a month or so, gain about 10 lbs and then lift again when i have a little more body fat? im 130 lbs, 5’ 7.5", ive been working out for a little less than a year and i need to put on weight.
stop lifting? that dosent even make sence.
eat more food.
Eat more. Or just add a gallon of milk a day, at your weight fat gain should not really be a concern. However, if you stop training for a month, you will probably gain fat only, so I wouldn’t really recommend that.
Off course you’ll gain fat, more calories with no use = fat. If your gettin little progress up the cals, at first I thought eating 3000 was hard, but got used it (in a few weeks only) now I crave large meals every 2hrs at least, eatin around 4000. I’m about your stats, a little heavier and taller.
I carry a huge bag of nuts and jerkey with me everywhere I go, buy it from costco. I live in phili so throw a few cheese steaks in there and your set.
Don’t stop lifting.
[quote]p-dubb wrote:
i need to gain weight. i eat about 3000 calories a day and i notice minimum results. [/quote]
I don’t understand the person who says this but doesn’t immediately increase the amount of food they eat the moment they notice they aren’t gaining any weight. Am I missing something?
If I’m trying to gain weight…and I’m not gaining weight…then I eat more to gain weight.
Why are there so many of you?
130 lbs thats so really skinny at that height. i know that because i wrestled at that freshmen year.
Dude you just have to eat alot.
i weighed that and now i am 190. you just have to keep eating.
yea ill just up my calories by about 1000. sorry the stop lifting thing actually was pretty dumb for me to say, and i’m not trying to gain all fat so i’m going to stay on my lifting.
Here ya go buddy.
Routine- 7 days a week
You can do 2 sets of 6 eggs twice a day or 1 set of 12 eggs once a day.
1- Crack all eggs and cook in a skillet.
2- After done cooking place them on a plate.
3- Use a fork to lift the eggs from your plate to your mouth.
4- Chew them up and swallow.
5- Repeat process until the plate is clear.
(eggs have a 98% protein utilization rate)
The eggs thing sounds good in theory, but in practice it’s hard to eat a lot of eggs. It’s hard to eat a lot of any one thing (cept ice cream, the king of bulk foods). And I’m not saying that just to be a pussy, when I get sufficiently sick of a food I literally can’t get it down (as in it will come back up if I try to eat a lot of it).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
p-dubb wrote:
i need to gain weight. i eat about 3000 calories a day and i notice minimum results.
I don’t understand the person who says this but doesn’t immediately increase the amount of food they eat the moment they notice they aren’t gaining any weight. Am I missing something?
If I’m trying to gain weight…and I’m not gaining weight…then I eat more to gain weight.
Why are there so many of you?[/quote]
This is an excellent point and one that I failed to realize for many years. You need to eat at least 4 meals a day along with a couple of shakes. Once I started to eat a good size breakfast I noticed some changes taking place. Consume a meal every 3 hours, try to get 5 in if possible. You may have to eat some foods that you don’t normally eat; calorie dense foods and some fatty foods, possibly some fast food, ice cream and other types of sweets that are high in calories. If you want to bulk up you’re going to put on a little fat. Red meat is also very important. Eat a meal before bed or close to it. Make sure your workout is designed to get bigger and stronger, based on compound movements, and that you will be able to recover from them. I’m sure I will be ridiculed by some of our fellow readers but this has helped me out tremendously. I’m not a “bodybuilder” but an aspiring powerlifter so my appearance is not so important to me as my strength is my number one goal. Size is a side effect and one that I love. Good luck
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
[quote]TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out. [/quote]
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
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you know what he means, don’t beat around the bush.
[quote]Contach wrote:
Professor X wrote:
TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
you know what he means, don’t beat around the bush.[/quote]
Actually, no, I don’t know what he means.
he wrote:
What the living fuck does this mean?
Here, let’s try to make some sense of it:
What?
How many bushes do I have to beat for that to start making sense?
How many bushes have you smoked that it makes sense to you right now?
As people have already suggested, you should start by eating more food and continuing to lift.
But you also need to take in to account how much activity you’re doing.
If you have a very active job, or spend multiple hours a week playing sports, riding your bike, etc. it’s gonna cut into your recovery. All that time exercising is burning calories that your body needs to grow.
Try and look at ALL your physical activity and then cut out some things if it’s excessive.
PDubb- Here ya go buddy. I did this and it worked very well, as I have a fast metabolism too. Sounds like this was taylor made for you, and doesn’t involve a whole lot of complicated planning at all.
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459839
Kubo
[quote]Professor X wrote:
TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
[/quote]
Obviously this is quite true, but I think he means by volume. Of a chunk of average muscle and a chunk of fat that are same physical size, muscle weighs more. Or put another way 1 pound of muscle is smaller by volume than 1 pound of fat.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Professor X wrote:
TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
Obviously this is quite true, but I think he means by volume. Of a chunk of average muscle and a chunk of fat that are same physical size, muscle weighs more. Or put another way 1 pound of muscle is smaller by volume than 1 pound of fat.[/quote]
Yea, but the other shit that dude wrote is the definition of non-sequitur.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
Professor X wrote:
TAYLORA066 wrote:
when you work out you gain muscle weight and muscle weighs more than fat so therefore you will probly just become fater and weaker so just try and eat more and keep on working out.
What? Muscle weighs more than fat?
1lbs of fat and 1lbs of muscle…don’t weigh the same?
Obviously this is quite true, but I think he means by volume. Of a chunk of average muscle and a chunk of fat that are same physical size, muscle weighs more. Or put another way 1 pound of muscle is smaller by volume than 1 pound of fat.
Yea, but the other shit that dude wrote is the definition of non-sequitur.[/quote]
Ah, I see now. Working out = gain muscle = getting fatter = non sequitur.
I took him as clumsily referring back to the guys question about whether he should stop working out. In other words if you stop training and just eat more you’ll get fatter. Oh well, slow at work today so I have some time to piddle with stuff like this.
Read the following articles and all the articles linked in it, follow it, come back in 6 months.
Massive Eating Reloaded, Part I
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459429
Massive Eating Reloaded, Part II
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459431
Also read the very first Thread in the Beginner forum.