Muscle gain mistakes

No way. You don't say!

I wish you could talk to my boyfriend, LOL. We got into a debate over this whole thing last night. I told him I wanted to start lifting heavy and he warned me that I would get too "bulky", oh Lord. I explained to him what I have been researching and learned about how that is not true, but NOPE, he just wasn't havin it. So I guess I'll have to prove him wrong

Do it! My boyfriend is the same xD not about muscle gain, but nutrition. He thinks fat makes you fat, you need to slam a protein shake immediately after a workout, and no carbs at night. What do I know? Lol! I love the goober xD

Haha! Yeah I know how it is...it's like, you just gotta throw up the white flag and end the conversation, cuz it's not going anywhere...hehe.

Everyone should read and understand this.. good info

Everyone should read and understand this.. good info

^^^^^^

In my experience, the typical approach of blasting a muscle group once per week for an insane number of sets and exercises simply doesn’t work for the majority. Yes, fine, there are some who do fine on it. They usually have good genetics and hormones. But the number who failed completely with that type of training is legion. You can’t use the minority who succeed on it and ignore the majority who didn’t.

I only had time to skim this, so some went over my head in certain sections where I didn't get to read thoroughly. (I bookmarked it and will go back later). But this part jumped out at me. So many people still train this way... there is so much information out there telling people to train this way. I don't train this way, and some people tell me I'm wrong. Refreshing to read this

Thanks!

Ladies it takes many years to pack on so much muscle that you would be muscle bound bulky so I wouldnt worry about it much. But if you are going to eat and excess in cals you will gain some extra fat along with that muscle for sure.

and for NESSNOT there are weight gainer shakes that allow you to eat those extra thousands of cals. on top of your meals and you can always make your own shakes for me it was easier to make my own.

Interesting read. I load up more on carbs on cardio days and more on protein on strength training days, but usually I try to get as much as possible of both in my diet. And it also seems the whole 'don't workout when you're starving' is true all along. This is why I sometimes skip working out whenever I land in one of these days where there's nothing to eat around the house again...uggh. Keeping out of starvation mode has been a problem for me for a while because my taste buds are so picky. I get tired of eating certain foods over and over again, and it doesn't help that I'm only a novice cook.

As for the whole bulking thing for women, it's impossible for a woman to look all Hulk-like unless they take steroids or something.

Ladies it takes many years to pack on so much muscle that you would be muscle bound bulky so I wouldnt worry about it much. But if you are going to eat and excess in cals you will gain some extra fat along with that muscle for sure.

and for NESSNOT there are weight gainer shakes that allow you to eat those extra thousands of cals. on top of your meals and you can always make your own shakes for me it was easier to make my own.

Holy crap this guy is a BEAST!!!!

I agree! I prefer making my own shakes!
You can control the sugar that way!

Beast? yes. Good info? yes.

Although, I was never one for the shakes-as-meal thing. Maybe I could do it if I made my own, but I prefer real food. Maybe eggs, toast, and ham before the gym and a Chinese buffet after the gym. I play a game at Chinese buffets where I try to get as many kinds of animals on my plate as possible. My personal best was nine different animals.