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Lookin to help/be helped and be motivated
HI!! Names Dalton, and I am currently enrolled in ISSA personal training school. I'm 130 looking to bulk up to 200 and I'm looking for inspiration and I am more than happy to give any advice from the knowledge that I have as well!!!
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Help me pls
Hello weight gainers, I am a single mother of two and work full time all week. I would like help with recipes with high calorie intake and anything my fellow community can help with. I'm not lazy but find it hard or not fun to work out. Also I'll be waist training and starting apetamin. I'm very open n hope to hear from…
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Ensure and mass gainer?
Hey everyone. I'm trying to gain weight. I just lost a lot of weight and it's been affecting my menstral cycle greatly. I started taking ensure (the premade ones), but I also planned on taking optimum nutrition's mass gainer as well (half a serving size). Is this safe? I don't want to screw with my body. Thank you for any…
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GAINED 35 LBS in 1.5 YEARS (Pictures included)
Pictures below! I'm currently at a loss as to whether or not I should continue bulking until 200, 220 lbs, etc or start cutting down to about 170 then rebulk. I'm hesitant to start cutting because it appears as though I have not gained much body fat and don't want to waste time cutting when it could go to gaining more…
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Bulking
What is bulking? Ive also see macros a lot too since ive been researching weight gain and lifting. Im interested in methods of bulking as well. Any advice or help is great
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Christmas Gainz
oh how the holidays are great for bulking.....went to a Christmas dinner buffet at a restaurant in downtown San Diego. The tip for when your bulking Is eat your plate, then ask for seconds and even thirds....well let's just say I made it to sixths or maybes sevenths lol. This was before dessert! I enjoyed scalloped…
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Bulking without a gym?
I'm just over 4 weeks into a bulk, but sadly my gym in York (north of England) is now under water with the awful floods that have hit the north of England in the past couple of days. It looks in a bad way, and will probably be some time before it's back up and running. Can I successfully run a bulk with some sort of…
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advice for overnight
I feel struggle to gain weight which I work during overnight so does anyone have experience might share with me?
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Underweight Female
Hi I'm in the hopes of gaining weight to be able to attend the Gym for lifting but I was advised to gain weight first , I'm 5'11 Aged 20 and currently weigh 46 Kg ! All help on macro's needed
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Vegan gaining
Hi there, I recently went vegan and am struggling to get the calories I need to gain. I have always been slim-average build but not particularly happy with that, I would like to bulk up. I have been eating plenty of nuts and vegan protein shakes etc but if anyone has any tips or calorie dense foods they would recommend…
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145lbs on my way to 165lbs. What success have you seen? What diets have you used?
I'm very skinny for 5'11" I recently I've changed up my diet that limits dairy (basically none) and meats ( occasional salmon, chicken, and shrimp). Have no idea if this will help with my weight gain, but I've just selected what I'd like to eat rather than what I've been forcing my self to eat for the sake of gaining.…
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Can't seem to get enough calories in my diet
Hello all. I'm trying to gain a few pounds back. I'm not a huge eater and I mainly eat vegetarian. My calorie counter on here says to eat 2310 calories a day. It seems impossible for me to achieve this. Any suggestions on what to eat to up my calorie in take??? Thank you!!
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Post gastric sleeve cancer suffer needs to bulk up
Hi Im approximately 2 years out from gastric sleeve surgery and was diagnosed in April with terminal cancer. So far i am on top of the cancer but need to eat 4000 cal per day to recover from surgery and maintain health. I find weight varies alot but am inclined to get flabby rather than develop muscle. I walk, row and swim…
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Test Booster
test boosters to gain weight... Fenugreek is all natural for example would taking something like this raise your test levels and if so to the point of making weight gains or will it just make a dent in my wallet so to speak What's your thoughts on the test boosters...? What results have you had and using what..? I've also…
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Need booty gains
I've been in a calorie deficit for several months now, and still lifting, trying to maintain my muscle mass. I already know measurements are not the most accurate, but I've managed to gain almost 1 lb of muscle (measured once a month for 3 months). Although, I'm very happy with my progress and overall figure, the booty…
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Starting My Weight Gain Journey; Female, Mostly Veggie
Hi ya'll. I'm looking for some friends who are also in a similar situation so we can share tips/stories and keep each other motivated. About me: I'm 23, female, 5'11" and last time I weighed myself (~1wk ago) I weighed 110 with several layers of clothes on :s Before that I had never gotten past 115. Recently I tried eating…
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1 kg per week
Can anyone tell me?
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Ab workouts while gaining
*Excuse my bro-science terminology, I'm new to this*. So im a deployed soldier and My goal is to come back home with a golden era asthetic body. I'm 177lbs right now but I want to get up to 185lbs(muscle mass). I definitely need to do some serious ab work but is it impossible to gain all that weight while trying to keep…
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Weight gain
Hi all New to all of this and haven't really got to much of an idea of what I am doing Just a quickie... I'm a thin male and looking to put on some weight. I'm really light now around 8 stone and would like to go up to about 9 stone as soon as possible and gradually go up from there. I'm not looking to get huge or bulk. I…
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German Volume Training to Make Gains?
So I'm new to MFP and have been using it to track my Calories and Macros. I work out a lot, but sprained my wrist not too long ago and feel I'm finally ready to get back into lifting again (it's been about a month and a half :neutral: ). I do a decent amount of cardio every weak because I have to keep my run time down to…
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Best workouts for weight gain
New Years resolution: I'm trying to bulk up as much as I can by Jan 1, eating as much protein as possible, and hitting the weights. Any guidance on what routines would be best?
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First Heavy Squat Day- OMG
Keeping things relevent my first heavy leg day yesterday after 2 previous light and moderate workouts over the last week and a half as a beginner. *kitten* to the grass with emphasize on form. I could barley walk up the stairs last night! Brings back memories of the dungeon weight room at the YMCA 30 years ago ;-)
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How should a ectomorph eat
5,7 floating around 140-145pounds small framed male been gymming for years and possibly the slowest muscle gain ever... currently doing the stronglift 5x5 really enjoying it been throwing some pull ups in aswell on the deadlift day.. Question is what we meant to eat..we eat the oats,the peanut butters, the nuts, wholemilk…
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Construction workers
Anyone work on building sites here and give anyone good ideas what u guys eat... As u no u don't get much time to eat in the trade and work is pretty much full on
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Any women/girls looking to just gain muscle? need training inspiration etc!
I'm 19, had an eating disorder so trying to build my body back up, get back my strength and my confidence. I am now at a healthy weight and am looking to really start building some muscle etc any fellow mfp users that could help me, be healthy inspirations that would be great
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gaining. eating surplus now can't gain? help
Hi all I have been at this for a few months. At first I gained 5 lbs in about two months which is slow. I up my cal about about tthousand so before I was eating total of 1960 a day or so and gaining. When I noticed I stopped gaining I added another 1,000-2,000 cal a day and eat anywhere from 1980-4,000 a day averaging…
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Advice for someone a month away from their first bulk?
I hope to start my first bulk in early February and would like to know if you suggest any way to prepare. Some info on me: I am 5'8" and weighed in today at 116. My scale and other body fat estimators usually put my body fat % around 15%. I have been lifting for about four years. However, I got pregnant October 2014 and…
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A feeling of betrayal
So when I first started using this app, I weighed 103.. I weighed myself a week later and I weighed 110 and was so excited. But the next morning I was 105 (before I ate anything) idk whether to be happy I gained two pounds vs 7. Is there an explanation? Sorry I'm new to this
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breast feeding
Does it interfere with gaining?
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Need advice on bulking
Not that quite sure how