Might explain allot!
Muscle hypertrophy is a term for the growth and increase of the size of muscle cells. The most common type of muscular hypertrophy occurs as a result of physical exercise such as weightlifting, and the term is often associated with weight training.
The only way a mature adult gains weight is through Hypertrophy of muscle tissue or increase in body fat.
What ever person or information source told you that is FULL OF SHIT.
I bought a digital food scale on Amazon and used that to weigh most of my food. Liquids like milk, which I don’t drink anymore, I would use measuring cups. I like weighing everything though bc a cup of rice can be off or a cup of oats etc. I also like weighing everything that I can because I don’t have to get more dishes dirty thSt I have to wash. I add my carbs or protein and weigh it. 0 out the scale with the new weight on and add the next thing to desired weight etc. Once you get a good idea of portion sizes you don’t have to mess with it. It also doesn’t have to be 100% perfect, like peanutbutter I just eyeball, same with honey. But you could weigh those our as well.
Ok now I finally have time to reply to your great questions.
8 years ago I weighed approximately 130lbs. Which is what I weighed all through high school.
Yesterday I ate:
Breakfast: A bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Snacks: Fruit snacks, candy bar, 1 scoop of huel
Lunch: White rice, cream of mushroom soup, and hamburger
Dinner: Steak Gorgonzola from olive garden (only about 1/4 because I filled up on appetizer/salad/breadsticks)
Sorry I don’t know the weights or quantities of those foods from yesterday.
That is a good way to look at my injury situation. I will need to focus on eating more. It’s been a very rough couple of months for me, so I appreciate the motivation.
Sorry let me re-phrase that. I know you get hypertrophy from lifting heavy. I guess what I meant to say was I always thought, and have read in a few places that high reps low weight (hypertrophy training as I take to mean) equals muscle endurance rather than muscle volume.
I got ya. I will have to look into ordering one as soon as I can. Were you weighing things mainly to see how many calories you got from them? Or just so you can know how much food total you ate that day? I usually drink as much milk as I can because it’s easy to drink and has lots of calories.
What few places did you read this in?
I started weighing things out because I was doing 531 and felt like shit everyday I lifted. I thought I was eating a ton but decided to start measuring to see. Once I started measuring and logging in my fitness pal I found out I was barely hitting 2500 calories a day. I started eating a true 4000 and I felt great and even started dropping a fair amount of fat. Now I weigh and measure to ensure I get enough calories. Now I’m eating 3000 calories and still doing good. I hate weighing and measuring but it ensures I eat enough bc I’m not a big eater to begin with
Bro you eat like your still in high school… whats a fruit snacks? like fruit or those jelly things? candybar? Meat and nuts will be your ammunition.
Haha I guess I do. But it’s hard to eat well at work. I’m not currently on my weight gain diet. That’s just honestly what I ate yesterday. When I am able to lift and diet how I want to I eat lots of almonds, sunflower seeds, and cashews. But I hear what you’re saying.
That’s interesting that you were feeling bad from not getting enough calories. I’m also not a big eater as hard as I try.
Man everybody works, what do you think no one here brings food to work? Bring tuna, sardines, nuts whatever man. I eat my main meal at home and if theres left i bring to work along with plenty other stuff ( i work nights).
I had to do a bit of digging to figure out who the hell the author was of that, but from what I can tell Jeremy Ethier is basically a self-promoting personal trainer from Canada.
I am unsure why you would want to hitch your wagon to that specific individual. Those seem to not be significant credentials. I would look into people that have a rich established history of making people bigger and stronger. You may consider the works of Dan John, Jim Wendler, Paul Kelso, Paul Carter, Jon Andersen, Joe DeFranco, etc etc. Consequently, you will see that these individuals tend to advocate a variety of rep ranges, mainly because rep ranges aren’t nearly as important as overall volume accumulated when it comes to developing hypertrophy.
If you think about it, it makes sense. Calories are energy and building blocks. I was doing the main lifts.
Monday squat and bench then a few accessories
Wednesday deadlift overhead press few accessories
Friday bench and squat few accessories
Not eating enough food the body doesn’t have enough energy to push through workouts let alone allow a person to get stronger or larger.
If you havent yet watch the videos guineapig posted in the 4th post. Really good info and explanations.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Seriously, tell me that you can look at that and wonder why you aren’t gaining quality muscle mass. There’s barely any protein or nutrition to speak of.
The only wonder is that you’re not fatter.
Here’s a typical day for me eating wise.
6:00 am I get home from work.
6:30 am 6 eggs, 2 slices toast, 1 cup cranberry juice
Wake up at 2:30 pm
12 oz cream of rice, 2 scoops protein 2 cups almond milk unsweetened
Go to gym by 4
Post workout
2 scoops protein, 2 cups almond milk, 1 bottle mountain dew. It’s not ideal but I like it lol
Supper around 7
6 oz ground turkey or chicken breast, 1 cup long grain white rice, 2 cups vegetable
Before work snack about 9
25 grams almonds
Lunch at work around 12 am
6 oz ground turkey or chicken breast and 1 cup long grain white rice
Break 3 am
25 grams almonds.
That gives me around 3200 calories.
Edit: I should add, I train 4 days a week and don’t drink soda on non training days.
I also should add, I am no where near as knowledge able as others on diet. I do not complete on stage and don’t plan on it. This diet has been working for me and once it doesn’t I will change things up, no soda etc. I also change up supper sometimes to lean steak or roast etc. This may not be the best diet but as I’ve said, it works for me right now
This could quite possibly be the worst diet I have ever seen posted on this forum.
I dont think you understand the meaning of what high reps implies regarding muscle and endurance vs hypertrophy . Also I think you misinterpreted what you might have read.
HA… I have seen worse on here!
Let me be clear I don’t expect to gain muscle or even weight from the diet that I posted from yesterday. Like I said before I’m on crutches right now, so I’m just eating when I’m hungry basically. My diet when I’m lifting taken from my fitness pal 2 months ago looks like this:
Breakfast:
3 scoops Huel (459 cal)
20 fl oz whole milk (375 cal)
Lunch:
Fried pickles (780 cal)
10 buffalo wings (720 cal)
32 oz beer (294 cal)
Dinner
Turkey breast sandwich (356 cal)
Snack
Snack size baby ruth (85 cal)
1 Reese’s cup (105 cal)
Total Calorie intake for the day = 3,174 calories
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