Your advice to help me gain 3 pounds of muscle
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claritarejoice
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Hi everyone! So my current goal is to gain 3 pounds of muscle. How can I do this? Any advice you have is helpful. I am a 5'7" female, currently 21% body fat. I have been having a hard time increasing the amount of weight I lift. Thanks for your input!
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Hi everyone! So my current goal is to gain 3 pounds of muscle. How can I do this? Any advice you have is helpful. I am a 5'7" female, currently 21% body fat. I have been having a hard time increasing the amount of weight I lift. Thanks for your input!
You need to eat in a very small caloric surplus to achieve this, and use some form of resistance training with progressive tension overload. I would attempt to gain no greater than .5 lb/week.
What is your weight currently doing?0 -
I have been doing stronglifts 5x5 since January and am currently at the following weights: squat 115 lbs, OHP 50, deadlift 115, bench 70, rows 50 lbs. It is not progressing very fast.0
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What has your bodyweight done in the past month? Please make sure your diary remains open as ill revisit this tomorrow.0
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Thanks! I've stayed at around 143 pounds all month.0
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Eat a few hundred more calories and push your weight progression. Most of the time when people can't add weight it's calorie related.0
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Thanks! I've stayed at around 143 pounds all month.
Please set your diary to public if you would like more detailed feedback, but in short, neanderthin is correct. You'll want to incrementally add calories. I'd start with 100/day and stay there for two weeks.0 -
Thanks to both of you! Hmm my diary was set to friends and you are my friend . . . but I have now changed it to public
It is so hard to log accurately. For instance I made fried plantains for my family for dinner tonight - I have no clue how many cals a piece is and nothing accurate in the database - so I added 50 quick cals to my dinner for it (random guess). I'm pretty sure I'm eating more than my diary shows. 0 -
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It does look like your logging is a bit inaccurate so I'd try to keep as accurate as possible. I see many days with 400-600 calories logged which I'm guessing are incomplete.
That being said, I ran your averages for calories and macronutrients after deleting most of those days. After making a caloric increase I'd suggest the following for the next week:
1700 kcals
200 carbohydrate
45 fat
125 protein
Do this accurately for a week and reply to us with an update and we will monitor and adjust from there. You will likely need to increase beyond this but I'd rather step your intake up to find the point at which you gain rather than just jumping your intake up.0 -
Thanks to both of you! Hmm my diary was set to friends and you are my friend . . . but I have now changed it to public It is so hard to log accurately. For instance I made fried plantains for my family for dinner tonight - I have no clue how many cals a piece is and nothing accurate in the database - so I added 50 quick cals to my dinner for it (random guess). I'm pretty sure I'm eating more than my diary shows.
I'll leave the intake part of this to Sara and Sidesteel, but about logging homemade food: use the recipes function in the food diary. You enter all of the ingredients you used for the dish, figure out how many servings are in the whole batch, and then dole them out based on your chosen serving size--which should be figured out based on weight rather than volume. You can check the accuracy and completeness of individual ingredients in the MFP database by using reputable sources, such as the USDA nutrient database. Yes, there are some mistakes even in the USDA entries in the MFP db, but you can correct them yourself.0 -
Locking this so we can keep track of active threads. Please PM me or SideSteel when you are ready to update us or if you want to ask anymore questions and we will unlock so you can. Please include a link to the thread in the PM.0
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Hi there! I tracked as accurately as possible for the last week. Here are my numbers:
Friday 7/12 1957 cals, 254g carb, 61g fat, 126g protein
Saturday 7/13 2007 cals, 228g carb, 64g fat, 126g protein
Sunday 7/ 14 1589 cals, 183g carb, 48g fat, 120g protein
Monday 7/15 1650 cals, 192g carb, 40g fat, 132g protein
Tuesday 7/16 1959 cals, 243g carb, 59g fat, 134g protein
Wed 7/17 1623 cals, 191g carb, 47g fat, 133g protein
Thursday 7/18 1814 cals, 218g carb, 58g fat, 115g protein
Friday 7/19 1683 cals, 216g carb, 46g fat, 128g protein
Average 1788 cals, 216g carb, 53g fat, 127g protein
My weight and measurements have not changed since April, so I've been maintaining on about 1800 calories. Thanks!0 -
What has your weight done in the last week? Has it stayed the same?0
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My weight has not changed this week. I typically see a daily fluctuation between 140-145 pounds (before/after eating etc), but no real change. Thank you 0
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Bring calories to 1850 with the following
125 protein
45 fat
225 carbohydrate
Report back in 1 week please.
PM us if you have questions sooner.0
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