Weight Gain concern on Starting Strength

[ActivitiesGuy]

This seems like it might be relevant:

5/3/1 for Hardgainers

As for this…

@shinobi2000

Also, I still don’t get why just eating more will not likely help.

It probably will “help” in the sense that you may continue to gain weight and strength, but at some point “just eat more” becomes a recipe for gaining additional fat. This entire thread started because you expressed some (justified) concern the prospect of getting overly fat if you merely continued to follow Starting Strength with more and more food, which is why JFG said…

@JFG

Rip doesn’t care about your waist line. He cares about you getting strong and learning the basics.

If your waist line is a concern and you learned the basics, move on.

…and then Punisher said…

@T3hPwnisher

So here’s the thing; you’ve done the same thing many many times in a row and it’s not working. One possible solution is to try to throw more food at it, but do you imagine that THIS is the one thing that’s keeping you from getting bigger and stronger?

I would find it far more reasonable to believe that it is the TRAINING that is failing rather than simply the diet. It was working, now it’s not. You dropped the weight down, did the exact same thing you did before, stalled out, did that again, and stalled out. You’ve found the limitation of the programming, so it’s time to use something different with different limitations.

…and yet here we are a few days later, with you still somehow believing that the answer lies in carrying on with the Starting Strength workouts and just adding more food because you already gave four other well-respected and proven programs a solid 2 months and none of them actually got you stronger until you did Starting Strength.