I am 19 years old and I am curious as to how much I should eat each day. I currently aim for 3500 and I am not gaining weight, as much as I try. I eat well over 1g of protein per lbs of body weight, but still no weight gain.
My lifting goes up, but VERY slowly. I was just wondering how much others recommend I should eat. My buddy and I workout 4 days a week, so keep that in mind. One more question I have is this-- How often do you guys raise your weight on each exercise? Should it be noticable once I start eating enough?
I’m sure others will tell you the same thing. If your not gaining on what your eating then up your calories. Shoot for adding 250 cals a week until your gaining at a good rate or break your plateau. Its always different with every person so one person will gain different than others so experiment with types of food and amounts of food.
As far as how much weight you’ll move over the weeks? Again, its a personal thing. As long as your upping your lbs. every week your good.
Simple and only answer to #1 is More enough to make you start to gain what ever that may be no equation can or will tell you. 3500 aint working go for 3750-4000.
Raise the load as you get stronger and can. say your aiming to do 3 sets 8-10 as a beginner once you can do 3 of 10 raise it. It really depends on what parameters etc you are using in your program
Main thing eat more enough to gain and go lift heavy things consistantly and yes by eting you should notice increased strength energy, etc…
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I am 19 years old and I am curious as to how much I should eat each day. I currently aim for 3500 and I am not gaining weight, as much as I try. I eat well over 1g of protein per lbs of body weight, but still no weight gain.
My lifting goes up, but VERY slowly. I was just wondering how much others recommend I should eat. My buddy and I workout 4 days a week, so keep that in mind. One more question I have is this-- How often do you guys raise your weight on each exercise? Should it be noticable once I start eating enough?[/quote]
You should also examine your current training plan. What kind of lifting are you doing? How long have been you been on the same program? Are you allowing adequate recovery time? How much cardio are you doing? Your problem may not be just about calories.