Bulking up and weight gain

[mattmms]

Hi guys, i am trying to gain weight and bulk up. Using various calculators online, i need to intake 3000 calories per day. Ive gone through some suggestions and it seems that it takes a ton of food to achieve that. Any recommendations on how to achieve that? Supplements? Or high protein higj calorie kind of food?

 

[galapogos]

No kidding, 3000 calories is a lot of food for someone who isn't eating much. If suggest slowly increasing

 

[monk..]

Can you give an example what is "a ton of food" to you??

 

[mokseng]

Unless u wanna put on alot of fat in the process, just have to eat a bit more than ur maintenance calories for lean gains. I'm assuming u are working out.

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[teckgamer]

How about wholemeal bread with crazy amount of natural peanut butter?

 

[mokseng]

How about wholemeal bread with crazy amount of natural peanut butter?

U just described my breakfast + supper.

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[darkhonour]

i don't monitor what i eat; just whack and whack

but sometimes got financial limit, eat too much then not enough money for rest of the month :/

 

[donald83]

What is a good workout for skinny hard gainers? I read an article that just do bench press, squats, rows and militaru oresses will do. Basically strong lift provram and do for 2 years. No need do those fanciful exercises

 

[galapogos]

What is a good workout for skinny hard gainers? I read an article that just do bench press, squats, rows and militaru oresses will do. Basically strong lift provram and do for 2 years. No need do those fanciful exercises

Something like that. Any full body program that focuses on the big, compound, free weight lifts will work best. Learn the lifts, master the lifts, then use them in medium to high reps with sufficient volume. Then eat/rest a lot.

 

[donald83]

Something like that. Any full body program that focuses on the big, compound, free weight lifts will work best. Learn the lifts, master the lifts, then use them in medium to high reps with sufficient volume. Then eat/rest a lot.

I used to try SL 5X5 and no doubt my strength increased, but my lifts will stall at a particular weight especially for standing military press. In terms of muscle gains, not much.

So i switched to body part splits and i could see muscle gains but progress is slow

 

[gkhchay]

I used to try SL 5X5 and no doubt my strength increased, but my lifts will stall at a particular weight especially for standing military press. In terms of muscle gains, not much.

So i switched to body part splits and i could see muscle gains but progress is slow

SL 5x5 is a strength program, of course the muscle gains are nothing to shout about. Want to gain muscular weight? Then go for hypertrophy programs.

 

[donald83]

SL 5x5 is a strength program, of course the muscle gains are nothing to shout about. Want to gain muscular weight? Then go for hypertrophy programs.

But i read abt the relation btw strength and muscle. The more strength u gain, u will gain muscle naturally.

 

[platee]

Ieatmacdonaldeveryday can alr

 

[gkhchay]

But i read abt the relation btw strength and muscle. The more strength u gain, u will gain muscle naturally.

There's a reason why strength programs are called strength programs & hypertrophy programs are called hypertrophy programs.

What you read isn't wrong in general but the specifics are where the differences lie. Strength programs - low reps with long rest periods, hypertrophy programs higher reps and much shorter rest periods as well as more volume.