gaining muscle mass
jamesgonzales353
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Trying to gain about 2 lbs a week. I weigh 205 right now and im eating around 250 g protien a day and about 240carbs, 70g fat. How should i adjust my macros??
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Gaining 2lb's a week?! Why? It's mainly going to be fat... or am I being stupid?
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Not being stupid.0
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arditarose wrote: »Not being stupid.
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Also OP, your macros amount to 2590 calories... how on earth are you meant to be gaining 2lb's per week on that? Are you a dwarf?0 -
Not to mention that is an unnecessary amount of protein.0
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Well damn i thought this was somewhere to find help not get slandered. Thanks any way0
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jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Well damn i thought this was somewhere to find help not get slandered. Thanks any way
In no way are we slandering you... we're trying to help... but fine, whatever.0 -
jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Well damn i thought this was somewhere to find help not get slandered. Thanks any way
I don't think you know what slander means...
Anyway, people telling you to not gain at such a rapid pace or overdue it on protein =/= negative.0 -
Even if you cycled ever drug under the sun 2 lbs of muscle growth a week would be a tall order. People go on bulks all the time and for most people it end in a long *kitten* cut. Then people say they lost all their gains, not realizing how fat they got.0
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It's not slander. They were all simple statements. But we need more information. What kind of lifting program are you doing? How long have you been lifting? Do you know your body fat %?
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jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Well damn i thought this was somewhere to find help not get slandered. Thanks any way
Well that went downhill fast.
There are tons of people in this section with advice on gaining muscle and real experience. Forget what you think you know and be receptive to advice; you can learn a lot around here.0 -
Where's the fire?jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Trying to gain about 2 lbs a week. I weigh 205 right now and im eating around 250 g protien a day and about 240carbs, 70g fat. How should i adjust my macros??
Its more shock and concern than anything, not "slander." Two pounds a week is helluva lot a weight and especially someone at 205 currently.jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Well damn i thought this was somewhere to find help not get slandered. Thanks any way
^ ThisIt's not slander. They were all simple statements. But we need more information. What kind of lifting program are you doing? How long have you been lifting? Do you know your body fat %?
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Im doing powerbuilding routine working with josh bryant. Brand new to this. Before working with him i was 185 in sep14 and jan 15 i was weighing 210 staying around 13%bf the whole time.0
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jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Im doing powerbuilding routine working with josh bryant. Brand new to this. Before working with him i was 185 in sep14 and jan 15 i was weighing 210 staying around 13%bf the whole time.
Wait, you're working with Josh Bryant? Why don't you just continue to follow his advice?0 -
jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Im doing powerbuilding routine working with josh bryant. Brand new to this. Before working with him i was 185 in sep14 and jan 15 i was weighing 210 staying around 13%bf the whole time.
-.- you're working with Josh Bryant and are looking here for diet advice then? Shouldn't he provide oversite to your diet during the training blocks? Are you training with specific athletic goals in mind such as competition for powerlifting, strongman, etc?0 -
Working with someone in the business and you're looking for advice? Sounds odd.jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Im doing powerbuilding routine working with josh bryant. Brand new to this. Before working with him i was 185 in sep14 and jan 15 i was weighing 210 staying around 13%bf the whole time.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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Hes just doing my powerbuilding routine for now. I havent talked to him about nutrition yet due to funds. I have seen incredible strength gains with him though and put on good size with doing my macros but i know theres more potiential.0
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Working with someone in the business and you're looking for advice? Sounds odd.jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Im doing powerbuilding routine working with josh bryant. Brand new to this. Before working with him i was 185 in sep14 and jan 15 i was weighing 210 staying around 13%bf the whole time.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
I want to do my first bodybuilding show next may.0 -
jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Hes just doing my powerbuilding routine for now. I havent talked to him about nutrition yet due to funds. I have seen incredible strength gains with him though and put on good size with doing my macros but i know theres more potiential.
Talk to him about it, I'm sure he'd be willing to work with you on that front.0 -
I just emailed him. I dont know why i didnt think of asking him before.0
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slander: I do not think this word means what you think it means.0
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jamesgonzales353 wrote: »I weigh 205 right now and im eating around 250 g protien a day and about 240carbs, 70g fat.
Wait a minute... you initially said 22 grams of carbs. Your new macros make much more sense. But if you can get a professional to tell you how to adjust your macros, then I’d just do what he says.0 -
Implying he was a dwarf because his calories was a certain amount was sketchy. So, I totally understand the OP point on slander, wrong word choice but people on here need to chill, both people giving advice and taking advice. It's just a community board. If you want real advice I'd stick to a real trainer or nutritionist, not someone who starved themselves to lose weight, or someone who might have gained 40 pounds, but who knows how much is actual muscle.0
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LolBroScience wrote: »jamesgonzales353 wrote: »Hes just doing my powerbuilding routine for now. I havent talked to him about nutrition yet due to funds. I have seen incredible strength gains with him though and put on good size with doing my macros but i know theres more potiential.
Talk to him about it, I'm sure he'd be willing to work with you on that front.
This. I think the hardest part we are having with this, is that you seem to think that building 2 lbs a week will be mostly muscle. It won't, muscle doesn't build that fast, you will build muscle, if you work hard enough within the time frame, but we are curious as to why you think putting 2 lbs will greatly affect the amount of muscle built,
Basically and easily put, it's a bell curve. You work hard enough and eat smart enough with a decent protein ratio and you WILL build muscle, but that is NOT linear, it's not as easy as increasing gainz and the muscle will follow, at some point you're just gaining fat and the muscle gain is miniscule for the ratio of fat you are putting on.
That's all.
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Implying he was a dwarf because his calories was a certain amount was sketchy.
Sure, but he originally said that he ate 250 g protein, 22 g carbs, and 70 g fat. It must have been a typo, because he changed it now. But that would have been 1718 calories per day. To gain 2 lbs per week on those calories, his TDEE would have to be 718. Factoring in a few hundred calories for exercise, that’s a BMR of maybe 400. So the original numbers made no sense at all.
(To get a BMR of 400 at 205 lbs, the BMR calculator on this site says that you’d have to be ½ inch tall and 108 years old.)0 -
Implying he was a dwarf because his calories was a certain amount was sketchy. So, I totally understand the OP point on slander, wrong word choice but people on here need to chill, both people giving advice and taking advice. It's just a community board. If you want real advice I'd stick to a real trainer or nutritionist, not someone who starved themselves to lose weight, or someone who might have gained 40 pounds, but who knows how much is actual muscle.
because clearly the rest of us... all we do is starve ourselves and have never put on real muscle.
riiiiiiiaaaggghhhhhttttttttt0 -
Muscle? What is muscle?0
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Implying he was a dwarf because his calories was a certain amount was sketchy. So, I totally understand the OP point on slander, wrong word choice but people on here need to chill, both people giving advice and taking advice. It's just a community board. If you want real advice I'd stick to a real trainer or nutritionist, not someone who starved themselves to lose weight, or someone who might have gained 40 pounds, but who knows how much is actual muscle.
eating 2,590 calories and hoping to put on 2lb per week... seems legit
All I do is starve myself, drink water + eat vitamin pills like there is no tomorrow0 -
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