When Bulking - Is It Muscle Or Just Fat?

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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Is it true that women are only capable of gaining about 100g (0.25 pounds) of muscle per week?

    According to the McDonald model the average gain a woman can expect the first year year is about 1 lb a month or 0.25 pounds a week. Personal gain can be up to twice that - depends on genetics, training and nutrition. Aragon model comes out about the same.

    So as a beginner, working at limits consider your natural potential somewhere between 10-12 lbs a year - That's a good growth if you take it with respect to total BM and a lot of hard work. Visually and on the scale it might be very different because along with muscle, we have increased glycogen storage which can make you look more muscular but it's water and carbs to fuel you.

    Of course - that's without chemical enhancements or "super" genetics.
  • KeViN_v2pt0
    KeViN_v2pt0 Posts: 375 Member
    Didnt want to answer with the truth. Its considered mean.
  • KeViN_v2pt0
    KeViN_v2pt0 Posts: 375 Member
    Is it true that women are only capable of gaining about 100g (0.25 pounds) of muscle per week?

    Have you taken a look at this? Not only this page, but the entire site is a really good resource for information related to healthy weight lost and transforming your body.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/bulking-up-and-gaining-muscle/
  • IronCakes
    IronCakes Posts: 317 Member
    Is it true that women are only capable of gaining about 100g (0.25 pounds) of muscle per week?

    Have you taken a look at this? Not only this page, but the entire site is a really good resource for information related to healthy weight lost and transforming your body.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/bulking-up-and-gaining-muscle/

    qouting so I can read later.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Is it true that women are only capable of gaining about 100g (0.25 pounds) of muscle per week?

    Have you taken a look at this? Not only this page, but the entire site is a really good resource for information related to healthy weight lost and transforming your body.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/bulking-up-and-gaining-muscle/

    Scooby recommends meal spacing which is isn't shown to be significantly useful.
  • mumof5
    mumof5 Posts: 328 Member
    you gain fat while building muscle and eating more cals then you burn.
    you lose the fat while maintaining muscle and eating slightly less then your tdee.
    you dont look over weight. you look great. in saying that by gaining weight you can reduce your % of fat. what exercise do you do now? what do you eat now?

    Want to emphasize your words "eating slightly less then your tdee". From you previous post I see a massive cut. Going from 3500 on bulk and 2000 on cut? Well fair enough, if you want to gain weight fast with more than 500 cal surplus, otherwise I'd say your cutting is quite drastic.

    you've got a good eye! during my last bulk i was also training for a tough mudder, i was doing more cardio then is necessary in a bulk - so i ate more! my tdee is around 2300 at the moment. if i do go for a run or do extra cardio i will eat more. 3500 is waaaay over my tdee. this was extreme eating to cope with extreme training.

    I understand what you are saying but just to be pedantic for a second your TDEE includes training needs. If you are training and not gaining at 3500 that's your TDEE. True TDEE varies based on activity. /end pedant


    at 3500 i was gaining. my tdee at that time was 2500 - 3000 depending on the training that day. my tdee (which includes training as it should) at the moment is 2300, which is why im losing while eating 2000.
  • tiddlebit11
    tiddlebit11 Posts: 182
    Yeah i noticed the scooby thing says meal spacing, but i do IF daily (fasting for 20 hours, eating in a 4 hours window) mainly due to health reasons anyway, so thats really not going to change
    Positive though is that leangains says IF can help with increasing weight so hopefully it should turn out alright

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