No, it’s something my stoned high school ass made up when I was doing a lot of running.
Boil 2 packs of ramen noodles, drain the water, add the seasoning packs to the drained noodles, cram it between a couple of slices of buttered bread. Enjoy your 100g carb bomb.
To answer the question, my baseline:
@TrainForPain @Hugo_Fillion BRAVO. Back to the topic….
I do, but can’t find it. I remember someone claiming it was bs because sumo wrestlers don’t lift heavy weights, then someone else pointed out that their weights were other 600 lb sumo wrestlers.
Here’s a blast from the past.
@dchris that’s how it’s done bro!
I’m doing sets of BORs as go past the garage while getting all this holiday crap!
There are times when the synergy birthed within these threads is more informative than the topic being discussed.
But other times the “bunny trails” become extremely unproductive and even counterproductive.
A two-edged sword consequence of internet forums.
@RT_Nomad Understood but enough is enough. If necessary, alert those engaged in off-topic discussions that you’re starting a new thread. That’s how we used to do it anyway. I don’t want to feel like T-Nation forum police, though so I’ll shut my yapper.
Please allow me to put this in Six Sigma jargon. If everyone stayed strictly on topic all that would be accumulated is data without any analysis.
Data without analysis is “data rich, information poor.”
I am 76 years old and don’t eat anywhere near what I ate when I was competing. Why would anyone want to know what I eat now? I firmly believe that exactly what I ate during my competitive years is not nearly as important as why and the nuances around my reasoning.
And OP did say:
I just took “discussion” literal. And I will admit that I can go down a bunny trail pretty easily.
@RT_Nomad i don’t think he’s complaining about your comments. Your replies are relevant and logical. I think it’s more of a dig at another users unuseful contributions
@DORITO THIS. Thank you.
@RT_Nomad its about being an easy or hardgainer.
It’s about being stronger or weaker.
If you did 20 pull-ups and dips first time you were ahead in strength, maybe you also had the right structure for those exercises?
The reason I see that you got jacked faster is because you were already stronger, but you still had to knock out that work to get there.
Think about it, you did 20 first time. There are people it takes years of pull-ups and they still struggle to get 20. Maybe they are better in other exercises they could compensate for to get faster results?
I don’t believe you are an easy gainer, you are still working “harder” and doing “more work” than those that couldn’t do 20 pull-ups hence you get better overall results.
My opinion only.
Vitamin A minus?
I probably average 1-2 pounds of meat, 2 eggs, a glass of milk and 1 scoop of protein.
I am of average height but very muscley.
I lost quite a bit of weight, mostly fat, when I ate a pound salmon steak for lunch most days. Delicious with sauce, nutritious, and too filling to eat much crap. Fish and seafood are very underrated, but I would want to eat other things too.
Wild salmon?
Yes, and fresh, skin on, bought day of consumption for C$10 (US$7/lb) with added sauce (jerk, lime pickle, teriyaki five spice, tandoori rub, or tartar, etc.), very filling, ton of good macros. I am not a big eater, but putting down a pound of salmon was easy because it just tastes so good. And you don’t feel hungry later. The downside was it is not always easy to get to the nearby Asian grocery store that early, though it lasts a couple days in the fridge.
I didn’t want to comment, but I should set the record straight. When I started doing “gymnastics” I could do about 8 pullups and about as many parallel bar dips. Within two months I could 20 on each of them. I was making steady progress, as in making “easy gains.” That is two months, not two years.
Maybe, if being 6’ tall with long legs and long arms makes for the right structure for doing pullups and dips.
Through the years I have seen a multitude of different people try their hand at strength building and bodybuilding. There are always some that seem to get nowhere for their efforts, while some others seem to consistently get positive reinforcement for their efforts.
Look at it this way: Did my lack of effort prevent me from achieving the pinnacle of bodybuilding, or was it more likely to be related to my genetic potential. BTW, genetic potential is directly related to “easy gainer” classification. Care to disagree?
Yeah but how many stalks of celery do you take daily?
“Take” does not necessarily mean “eat”.
@RT_Nomad i do disagree with you, I’ve always been weak and always had my head in the wrong place, that’s why I didn’t make gains.
I have the crappist genes anyone can have, I wasn’t raised to be competitive, I came from skinny little hippies.
It took me about 25years to figure it out, how to gain quick for my genes. Just cause I have bad genes does not mean I can’t gain fast for my genes.
Of course he does
