If you are not gaining than you are not eating enough. Start a log as @blshaw suggested.
It’s so much easier for people to give you advice if they can see what you are eating and what your daily training looks like. It’s a great way to feel accountable as well. Here’s a link to my log from my last contest prep. There are also many others in the “training log” section
How are your currently tracking your food/training progress?
On a side note, what with the counters on the pics you are linking?
Based on Steve Reeves proportions, I’ve made this table:
muscle - Optimal Value - Actual Value - Difference
|neck|40|34|-6|
|shoulders|108|101|-7|
|chest|100|74|-26|
|forearm|29|22|-7|
|arm|36|25|-11|
|wrist|16|
|waist|71|67|-4|
|hip|87|83|-4|
|leg|56|44|-12|
|calf|36|30|-6|
I am on a 2300 kcal diet now, and I found out I am increasing my weight of 0.5 kg per month.
Chest: Based on my body, training chest would make it look like 1 or 2 ?
Very cool!
Would it be possible to know the scientific thing about “Which is the lean/fat muscle gain limit”?
For example, I weight 50kg, How do I calculate the maximum lean muscle and fat I could gain for my body?
Several ways to program it. Couple options: double progression 6-10 or 10-20. Start at the low end (say 6), add a rep every session or two. When you hit the top end of the range (say, 10), add 10 pounds and start over.
IMO, the shape of your abs and obliques are far more dependent on your genetics than your training effort. Sure you can get the muscles larger, but their shape won’t change significantly.
From all my observations, I would say the shape of a person’s abs and obliques are more varied than any other muscle group. I, for one, like prominent obliques. They make the midsection look powerful. Others say that heavily developed obliques lessen the taper. It’s all personal preference
Now, if you don’t have enough muscle, or are too fat to see the muscle, you will have some work ahead of you to find out about where you stand relative to others whose abs and obliques are on full display.
From the pics, you can see I could have sloped and rounded shoulders.
Do you guys think I could fix this, working for a final result to have the body look overall with “large and raised” shoulders, instead of big traps, low and narrow shoulders?
