Dude, supplements and multivitamins are not important for you right now. Even the workout itself should not be your first priority. EATING should be your first priority. Eat everything in your house and when you are done doing that, go beg for food on the street and then go back to your house, find a shovel and kill a cow. eat the whole cow and then kill another cow and eat it. By the way, go eat something.
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
Every moment some sort of food should be in your mouth. Do your best to eat clean (read Berardi articles).
Go to the archives and start from the first article and read till you get to the most recent article. Then do that one more time.
For the next 4-6 weeks, you should be reading articles and visiting links etc. Meanwhile, I wouldn’t do anything but pushups and free squats (squats with no weights).
10 pushups
20 free squats
Rinse, Repeat.
Repeat till you can’t complete a full set (a full 10 or 20). If you can’t do 10 pushups and 20 squats, start at 5 pushups and 10-15 squats. Then move up to 10 & 20.
Seems really basic but by the time you hit the weights you’ll have a jump on must gym goers.[/quote]
Thank you for posting. I have already started bodybuilding 3 odd months ago. Although I have only gained 5 odd pounds but my strength levels have somewhat risen. I could only do 6 push ups but now I do around 25-30.
[quote]mindeffer01 wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how did you come to be 5’11" @ 105 lbs.?
If I were there I would eat, sleep, and lift, and nothing else.
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Thank you for posting. I cannot just eat, sleep, and lift. I am in 12 Standard studying for a place in some engineering college in India. It is such stressful to study about 10 odd hours. It is my love for bodybuilding that I cannot part with it from the day I started it. I do my best in whatever way I can to eat, lift and sleep. But all can do is doing my best and leaving the rest to my genetics.
I have another question for you guys. What do you think is the maximum goal I can set for myself for 1 year considering my present weight, age etc.? I have another one that does stressful have any significant effect on gaining weight? I study 10 odd hours for an exam an that is very stressful. Thank you for posting.
Eat, eat , eat , and then eat again.
Seiously, the other guys have hit it right on the head. Look into Waterbury programs and read all the John Bererdi articles you can! Then use the information you read. Good luck to you. You seem to be making good gains so far so keep it up!!!
Dastang
Oh yeh, about your studying, you may find that lifting will even help you do that. It will help releive stress and help you focus. I was taking 12 credit hours, a full time job, and the gym. I didnt lift for like 1 mo. Then I started lifing again. Even though my schedule was tighter i felt better. Food for thought.
Dastang
I would become a jockey if i were you mate.
[quote]bull wrote:
I would become a jockey if i were you mate.[/quote]
LOL! If he was shorter, he could pull it off. But guess what? Even Jockey’s weight train and are probably bigger and stronger than him.
Look bro, you don’t even need to read Berardi’s stuff or anyone else’s nutritional info. What you need to do is EAT some freakin’ food and eat it often. At this point, you could eat anything, and make some progress (even burgers, fried food and fast food!).
Eating is not hard. I don’t know why everyone on this site makes it seem so damn difficult. I mean, really, is it hard to eat protein with each meal along with some fruits and/or veggies? And if you need to gain weight, is it really that hard to add milk, whole wheat or whole grain bread, pasta and brown rice to your diet? I mean, really. Really people. Really. Is it that freakin’ hard to know that if it’s man made don’t eat it, and if it is grown naturally, that it’s good for you?
Is it so hard to know that you can eat any and all veggies and fruit, and every source of meat and protein available?
Do you really need to read an article or two by John Berardi or Lonnie Lowery to tell you that protein is good. Veggies are good. Fruit is good. Eat more. Eat often. Eat for your health? I mean, really. C’mon guys. Really. Why does everyone make this so freakin’ difficult???
Do you not realize that fast food, junk food and fried food is bad for you? Do you not realize that you need to eat more food to grow and less food to get leaner (not in all cases - many times you can get leaner while keeping your food intake the same or even raising it).
I mean, really. C’mon. Should I write a diet article for T-Nation? It would be real simple. It would be called:
“Stop Being A Pussy and Eat Your Food.”
by Nate Dogg
Getting bigger, stronger, leaner and healthier isn’t hard to do. Most people overanalyze every aspect of their life, from what to eat, how to train and what clothes to wear to the gym. In fact, many will go so far as to avoid masturbation or sex prior to working out or a competition while others will only eat 5-6 foods every day in the hopes of getting HYOOGE.
Does this sound like you? Do you eat tuna, pasta, brocolli and protein powders every day of the week? Is that what you call a healthy meal? Do you forget that there are a variety of other foods that will get you to your goals? If so, then this article is for you…(one day I’ll continue this).
In the meantime, just browse some of the food that should be in your diet now and forever.
Protein
Beef
Fish
Chicken
Pork
Ostrich
Duck
Eggs
And ALL other meat sources
Cottage cheese, milk, yogurt
Raw nuts
Protein Powders
Carbs
Vegetables (any and all, the more colorful, the better. If wanting to gain, eat more potatoes - sweet and regular)
Fruit (any and all)
Whole-grain or whole-wheat bread
Whole-wheat pasta
Brown rice
Oatmeal
Beans
Fats
Olive oil
Fish oil
Flax oil
Butter
As a result of nuts, eggs, beef and other protein sources
And this is only a sample. There are many foods to choose from. Stop being a pussy and eat.
Nate Dogg,
Thank you for posting. Message got, eat and eat more, even more and more still. Not to worry about calories and the ratios. Just to worry if I will eat even more if my mind and stomach betray me. I now eat anything in view. Thank you once again.
[quote]resolveevolve wrote:
Nate Dogg,
Thank you for posting. Message got, eat and eat more, even more and more still. Not to worry about calories and the ratios. Just to worry if I will eat even more if my mind and stomach betray me. I now eat anything in view. Thank you once again.
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You never answered how you got to be only 105lbs in the first place. Had you been in America, my guess is someone would have hospitalized you a long time ago. For someone as tall as you, that is borderline starvation.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
resolveevolve wrote:
Nate Dogg,
Thank you for posting. Message got, eat and eat more, even more and more still. Not to worry about calories and the ratios. Just to worry if I will eat even more if my mind and stomach betray me. I now eat anything in view. Thank you once again.
You never answered how you got to be only 105lbs in the first place. Had you been in America, my guess is someone would have hospitalized you a long time ago. For someone as tall as you, that is borderline starvation.[/quote]
Man, and I thought I was bad…
dude, listen to everyone’s advice on the thread, as it replicated a thread I created a week ago… …You gotta eat, even if you don’t feel like/don’t have the appetite/not hungry/not in the mood/already stuffed/don’t have the time, etc. etc…
Its a HYOOOOGE effort (I tell you from personal experience I’m currently going through as well) but you gotta do it on your own.
You owe it to yourself.
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
“Stop Being A Pussy and Eat Your Food.”
by Nate Dogg
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Man, I try to explain this fact to kids that say they “can’t gain weight” but its actually a hard concept for people to grasp!
[quote]StevenF wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
“Stop Being A Pussy and Eat Your Food.”
by Nate Dogg
Man, I try to explain this fact to kids that say they “can’t gain weight” but its actually a hard concept for people to grasp! [/quote]
It really is, and I fell into that trap when I first started training 10 years ago. I ate three meals a day and two snacks. And I wondered why I didn’t gain weight. It wasn’t enough protein or enough calories, but I sure was eating plenty of carbs!
Once I realized what I was doing (keeping a food log is key), I knew what to do in order to fix it.
As said before you don’t need to read any articles. Just eat everything doughnuts, cake, steaks, salads, candy, whatever you can see that is edible EAT IT!
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
StevenF wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
“Stop Being A Pussy and Eat Your Food.”
by Nate Dogg
Nate, you make a lot of sense in your post, and without making it complicated
the way you put it, i can’t think of a reason not to follow a sensible eating plan
good advice
I’m not sure if this was said already, but…eat!
I eat so much that I do not go more than 1 hour without food. Today I did two workouts, and ate around 5000 calories, 300 grams protien, carbs - a lot.
I’m 6’1" 180lbs, everyone calls ME skinny! (recently started serious lifting again)
eat!