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I know its a cliche but I need to bulk up quick

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭Thud


    who would have thought it, Will arguing with himself :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭xgtdec


    You really know when you have made it on boards...when you get your very own parody account...im very jealous!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭COH


    Strawman fallacy my similarly named friend . So mind your business cos im a coach.

    Its a continuum


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    TZRwPYn.png

    :pac:

    Surely il put on more than a pound of muscle in 4weeks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Surely il put on more than a pound of muscle in 4weeks

    possible but unlikely.

    muscle isn't made quickly. Some make it faster, some make it slower. most make it slower.

    unless you get lucky and have the predisposition to creating muscle quickly then youre probably looking at less than .5 of a kg in lean meat a week.

    which ever group you are in the advise is the same, eat loads lift loads.

    But you will gain size and the strength that goes with being bigger.

    The actual fact of the matter is you're worrying too much about a little bit of fat. You might raise your BF% from 18% to 22% which you couldn't even see


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Theresalwaysone


    possible but unlikely.

    muscle isn't made quickly. Some make it faster, some make it slower. most make it slower.

    unless you get lucky and have the predisposition to creating muscle quickly then youre probably looking at less than .5 of a kg in lean meat a week.

    which ever group you are in the advise is the same, eat loads lift loads.

    But you will gain size and the strength that goes with being bigger.

    The actual fact of the matter is you're worrying too much about a little bit of fat. You might raise your BF% from 18% to 22% which you couldn't even see

    You know what .5kg is in lbs right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    You know what .5kg is in lbs right?

    ha ha, ive jumbled up my kg and lbs, good spot

    this is what I was originally referencing
    Your body can only make a limited amount of muscle (about 1/2 a lb a week). so in 10 weeks you could get 5 lbs of muscle added.

    that's still a high enough estimate.

    OP you are probably in a good position as you are coming back from rest so rebuilding rather than laying a foundation. people who have had the muscle before find it easier to rebuild it, rather than if you were skinny trying to bulk up


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    possible but unlikely.

    .

    The actual fact of the matter is you're worrying too much about a little bit of fat. You might raise your BF% from 18% to 22% which you couldn't even see

    I am mate tbh with you, I'm a bit worried about getting a massive belly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    I am mate tbh with you, I'm a bit worried about getting a massive belly

    refer to post #35 onwards. repeat until it sinks in


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    I say this only because every once and a while the fallacies, untruths and incorrect information spouted, repeated and regurgitated on this site all gets a bit too much for me to stand. NO ONE and I repeat that for emphasis NO ONE that is a fully developed adult with more than even 6 months of the most basic and rudimentary weight training history is putting on, adding, creating or in any way forming 1lb or 0.5kg or 1/36th of a pood of lean muscle mass per week or anything even close to that. So all you who keep spouting off about '1lb a week' can just shut it.

    I know that you are all going to race off to your google machines now frantically searching but you can save you time....I doubt that there is anyone here that has written '1lb a week' actually knows...as in if someone asked you on the street out of the blue...where the whole '1lb a week' comes from? I mean other than being able to say that they read it on the internet.

    So just shut up and stop saying it because it isn't true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Dave 101


    I say this only because every once and a while the fallacies, untruths and incorrect information spouted, repeated and regurgitated on this site all gets a bit too much for me to stand. NO ONE and I repeat that for emphasis NO ONE that is a fully developed adult with more than even 6 months of the most basic and rudimentary weight training history is putting on, adding, creating or in any way forming 1lb or 0.5kg or 1/36th of a pood of lean muscle mass per week or anything even close to that. So all you who keep spouting off about '1lb a week' can just shut it.
    So just shut up and stop saying it because it isn't true.

    but wat if.............. ah only joking agreed with everything above, off topic: will update ur blog instead of posting here thanks :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    I say this only because every once and a while the fallacies, untruths and incorrect information spouted, repeated and regurgitated on this site all gets a bit too much for me to stand. NO ONE and I repeat that for emphasis NO ONE that is a fully developed adult with more than even 6 months of the most basic and rudimentary weight training history is putting on, adding, creating or in any way forming 1lb or 0.5kg or 1/36th of a pood of lean muscle mass per week or anything even close to that. So all you who keep spouting off about '1lb a week' can just shut it.

    I know that you are all going to race off to your google machines now frantically searching but you can save you time....I doubt that there is anyone here that has written '1lb a week' actually knows...as in if someone asked you on the street out of the blue...where the whole '1lb a week' comes from? I mean other than being able to say that they read it on the internet.

    So just shut up and stop saying it because it isn't true.

    I don't think anyone here is implying that the op will gain purely lean mass, He asked how to bulk and bulk implies, water, glycogen, fat, food stored in intestines, lean tissue and mild increase in blood volume. He asked the most efficent way to gain10-12kg and was given it, if his question was how can I gain 10-12kg of lean mass then the answer would of been completely different.

    http://www.biggersmallerbigger.com/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    I don't think anyone here is implying that the op will gain purely lean mass, He asked how to bulk and bulk implies, water, glycogen, fat, food stored in intestines, lean tissue and mild increase in blood volume. He asked the most efficent way to gain10-12kg and was given it, if his question was how can I gain 10-12kg of lean mass then the answer would of been completely different.

    http://www.biggersmallerbigger.com/
    Well if your statement above is correct then all the advice is still wrong just not for the same reason. If people aren't talking about lean muscle mass and all people are talking about is 'bulk' and simple scale weight then 1lb a week or 0.5kg a week is ridiculously low. He could put on 1lb a day if that's the case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Duck's hoop


    Ok. That's what the answer isn't. What's what the answer is?

    (Assuming incorrectly the question is how much pure dry Irish muscle can an average Joseph expect to gain in a month).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Ok. That's what the answer isn't. What's what the answer is?

    (Assuming incorrectly the question is how much pure dry Irish muscle can an average Joseph expect to gain in a month).
    That's not how we roll here on boards.ie.

    People aren't comfortable with that kind of information. What's preferred here is people just repeating what they've read previously on the interwebz written by someone who read it before when it was written by someone who read it on the information super highway.

    I miss the good old days when people at least had to plagiarise misinformation that they at least read in a book or magazine and put that into posts so they could pretend they even had the slightest idea what they were talking about.

    I've given up making constructive post here on boards...I'm lurking and posting only when the idiocy really becomes too much for me because it just upsets people when I post....people feel much better with the whole '1lb of lean muscle mass per week' and the 'just eat more calories than you burn' or just burn more calories than you consume' type advice because that's what they see all the time and that's what they're comfortable with.

    So I will leave it to posters like Will Hefferman and others to maintain the super high performance and aesthetic standards of the posters seeking advice and help here on boards...all hail the status quo.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Is it weight you wanna out on or muscle
    Sorry if its been asked before but I went from a 2nd centre to a flanker after months of eating plenty of protein and cutting out carbs and only training twice a week and gym twice also.
    Went from 82 kg to 96 kg now and still doing the same routine and its worked for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    Well if your statement above is correct then all the advice is still wrong just not for the same reason. If people aren't talking about lean muscle mass and all people are talking about is 'bulk' and simple scale weight then 1lb a week or 0.5kg a week is ridiculously low. He could put on 1lb a day if that's the case.

    ~1lb a day is what he'd gain on my junkfood plan, which given the time frame is exactly what he was looking for. :pac:

    Also I re-read all the posts in this thread and no one mentioned 1lb/0.5kg per week lean mass ;)

    I return and everyone comes out of the woodwork, all we need now is roper, jayroc t-ha g'em and boards is back to its old self


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Also I re-read all the posts in this thread and no one mentioned 1lb/0.5kg per week lean mass ;)
    1. You obviously don't read too well or just have poor attention to detail.
    2. You've obviously got a poor memory because not only is it written in this thread but you 'thanked' the very post it was first written in.
    unless you get lucky and have the predisposition to creating muscle quickly then youre probably looking at less than .5 of a kg in lean meat a week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Theresalwaysone



    I've given up making constructive post here on boards...I'm lurking and posting only when the idiocy really becomes too much for me because it just upsets people when I post....people feel much better with the whole '1lb of lean muscle mass per week' and the 'just eat more calories than you burn' or just burn more calories than you consume' type advice because that's what they see all the time and that's what they're comfortable with.

    This spiel you keep coming out with is getting old.

    I don't see anyone getting upset, people might disagree (and might be wrong) but people are bombarded with so much information on the net that sometimes it'd be hard for a lay person to decipher whats right/wrong. Hell its even hard for some coaches given personal biases.

    That aside, this social pariah get up you like to don isn't really washing anymore.

    If you don't want to post. Don't. Don't post and tell us all (again), why you aren't posting

    Ill try put this in your self attributed tell it like it is way, stop being a whiney fanny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    This spiel you keep coming out with is getting old.

    I don't see anyone getting upset, people might disagree (and might be wrong) but people are bombarded with so much information on the net that sometimes it'd be hard for a lay person to decipher whats right/wrong. Hell its even hard for some coaches given personal biases.

    That aside, this social pariah get up you like to don isn't really washing anymore.

    If you don't want to post. Don't. Don't post and tell us all (again), why you aren't posting

    Ill try put this in your self attributed tell it like it is way, stop being a whiney fanny.
    LOL.

    That's much better :)

    You know what is also hard to 'get' on the interwebz? Humour, intonation, p*ss taking...it's a continuum really.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    1. You obviously don't read too well or just have poor attention to detail.
    2. You've obviously got a poor memory because not only is it written in this thread but you 'thanked' the very post it was first written in.

    same goes to you will, genius.

    T'was a typo, which was pointed out and corrected directly below.
    but you're a coach, so you don't make typos.
    You know what .5kg is in lbs right?
    ha ha, ive jumbled up my kg and lbs, good spot

    this is what I was originally referencing
    Your body can only make a limited amount of muscle (about 1/2 a lb a week). so in 10 weeks you could get 5 lbs of muscle added. IF you keep your diet strict by eating exactly what you work out you wont gain any fat.

    but you will only gain 5lbs (about 2kg) of muscle
    and the research I have says that this is even on the high side, but I didnt want to deflate the OP before he even starts or he stands no chance.
    But he is in a bracket which should be able to make up muscle mass easier than most so there is always hope.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    same goes to you will, genius.

    T'was a typo, which was pointed out and corrected directly below.
    but you're a coach, so you don't make typos.
    Oooooooooooooooooooooh I see what you did there....you redirected my criticism right back at me....even though if you'd read my post you'd realise that I had deliberately 'quoted' from the unedited post rather than the corrected one and hence would have to have understood it was a typo and hence would probably have been maybe perhaps kinda sorta taking the p*ss.
    and the research I have says that this is even on the high side, but I didnt want to deflate the OP before he even starts or he stands no chance.
    But he is in a bracket which should be able to make up muscle mass easier than most so there is always hope.
    Far be it from me to ever try to cut anyone down.

    That's it....I am never posting here again....or at least for another 5 or 10 minutes...whatever comes first.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    Will heffernan looking for fun on boards and he ran to the mods as soon as will hefferman came on the scene . Seems legit .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Will heffernan looking for fun on boards and he ran to the mods as soon as will hefferman came on the scene . Seems legit .
    LOL

    I am the reason that boards has mods.

    I REALLY need to learn how to use emoticons. Maybe I'll just place a * at the start of all statements that AREN'T taking the p*ss.

    Believe me when I tell you...that poster didn't make me 'run to the mods' if anything...it just makes me smile and feel warm and tingly on the inside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭xgtdec


    So....is the OP bulking up..or not?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Theresalwaysone


    xgtdec wrote: »
    So....is the OP bulking up..or not?

    I think me and you have the same idea about this OP and thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    xgtdec wrote: »
    So....is the OP bulking up..or not?
    The advice way back in this thread was pretty much spot on...train hard, watch his macros, create a significant calorie surplus.

    4 weeks is not a long time...we're talking about 10 to maybe 20 training sessions. Miracles are not going to happen.

    OP...you already know what to do...there really aren't any short cuts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    LOL

    I am the reason that boards hasg mods.

    I REALLY need to learn how to use emoticons. Maybe I'll just place a * at the start of all statements that AREN'T taking the p*ss.

    Believe me when I tell you...that poster didn't make me 'run to the mods' if anything...it just makes me smile and feel warm and tingly on the inside.

    Yea you ran . So when you gonna be a man of your word and stop postin on here or are you full of hot air as usual.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Yea you ran .
    Ahhhhhhhh...no I didn't. Don't blame me if one of you trolling accounts got shut down...I'm sure you've plenty of others or that your buddy can get a new one if that's what you are upset about....because it certainly wasn't me.
    So when you gonna be a man of your word and stop postin on here or are you full of hot air as usual.
    I am just here to be impressed and astounded by your grammar and your overall posting structure and style. I can't leave...I'd miss it too much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Oooooooooooooooooooooh I see what you did there....you redirected my criticism right back at me....even though if you'd read my post you'd realise that I had deliberately 'quoted' from the unedited post rather than the corrected one and hence would have to have understood it was a typo and hence would probably have been maybe perhaps kinda sorta taking the p*ss.


    Far be it from me to ever try to cut anyone down.

    That's it....I am never posting here again....or at least for another 5 or 10 minutes...whatever comes first.

    You do realise that half your posts are trying to explain why your previous post was a joke or taking the piss, I've got news mate, if you need to explain it then it just aint funny.

    Besides, I didnt edit my typo, its there for the world to see. I dont mind when I make mistakes. But then again, im not a coach.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    Ahhhhhhhh...no I didn't. Don't blame me if one of you trolling accounts got shut down...I'm sure you've plenty of others or that your buddy can get a new one if that's what you are upset about....because it certainly wasn't me.


    I am just here to be impressed and astounded by your grammar and your overall posting structure and style. I can't leave...I'd miss it too much.

    You an expert on grammar as well as how to lose friends and alienate people ? Get off boards like you keep saying and get yourself a life .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Ahhhhhhhh...Nno I didn't. Don't blame me if one of youR trolling accounts got shut down...I'm sure you've plenty of others or that your buddy can get a new one if that's what you are upset about....Only 3 periods in an ellipsis.Bbecause it certainly wasn't me.


    I am just here to be impressed and astounded by your grammar and your overall posting structure and style. I can't leave...I'd miss it too much.
    Commas, learn to use them.

    Grammar expert


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    The usual train wreck of a thread. Great.

    Stick to the topic or get banned. You want to b!tch at each other, do it via pm. We're not interested.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    Oryx wrote: »
    The usual train wreck of a thread. Great.

    Stick to the topic or get banned. You want to b!tch at each other, do it via pm. We're not interested.

    Maybe there is a common denominator in most of these train wrecks ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Maybe there is a common denominator in most of these train wrecks ?
    Feel free to PM me any of the train wreck threads and I will take the time to clear up any misunderstandings.

    As I said to the previous poster. I will make time over the weekend to point out all the things that are incorrect in his statements and do what he hasn't done and that is to back it all up with research.

    It seems fine for everyone else here to make complete unsupported and incorrect statements but if I wish to point out people are incorrect I have to document my statements with research and references.

    In this case I am happy to do so. Then we can see who's right and who is wrong.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    dor843088 wrote: »
    Maybe there is a common denominator in most of these train wrecks ?
    Feel free to PM me any of the train wreck threads and I will take the time to clear up any misunderstandings.

    In this case I am happy to do so. Then we can see who's right and who is wrong.
    I don't care who scores the most Big Man points here. I just want civility. Answer the ops questions in a way YOU feel is right. If you disagree with other advice offered say why in a non dickish way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    here is where I got me info from, i typed "how much muscle can your body make" into google. (.ie not .com)

    http://voices.yahoo.com/how-much-muscle-build-3852978.html?cat=50
    http://muscleevo.net/how-fast-can-you-build-muscle/
    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/373.full
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030674

    admittedly the sciencey bits were over my head, but the gist was its hard to make muscle so don't expect to gain a lot. unless you happen to be in the high responder group. and yes I paraphrased.

    Which is kind of the point you were making will isnt it? glad to help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    1. You obviously don't read too well or just have poor attention to detail.
    2. You've obviously got a poor memory because not only is it written in this thread but you 'thanked' the very post it was first written in.

    Stand corrected.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    here is where I got me info from, i typed "how much muscle can your body make" into google. (.ie not .com)

    http://voices.yahoo.com/how-much-muscle-build-3852978.html?cat=50
    http://muscleevo.net/how-fast-can-you-build-muscle/
    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/373.full
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030674

    admittedly the sciencey bits were over my head, but the gist was its hard to make muscle so don't expect to gain a lot. unless you happen to be in the high responder group. and yes I paraphrased.

    Which is kind of the point you were making will isnt it? glad to help.
    You don't need to understand the sciencey bits to see that what you're posting does not apply to this thread or what Will's saying.

    The poster in question is a 200lb+ rugby prop forward. The key elements in the studies you've posted that show they do not apply to the topic at hand (you may not have access to the full text of the first one):

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030674[/url]
    None of the
    subjects were active weight lifters

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/373.full
    We conclude that chronic postexercise consumption of milk promotes greater hypertrophy during the early stages of resistance training in novice weightlifters

    Though you both seem to agree that you can't put on muscle quickly so I'm not really sure what the argument's about.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    You don't need to understand the sciencey bits to see that what you're posting does not apply to this thread or what Will's saying.

    The poster in question is a 200lb+ rugby prop forward. The key elements in the studies you've posted that show they do not apply to the topic at hand (you may not have access to the full text of the first one):

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030674[/url]

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/373.full

    No one has mentioned that the OP's training was weight lifting. Sure it's been assumed.

    And my point and will's are essentially the same, you can't put on muscle that quickly.

    The OP want to put on 10-12 KG of muscle in a short period of time without getting fat, My point (and the point of the research to my understanding) is that he simply cannot. The best he can hope for should genetics, training (past and present) and luck all perfectly come together is .5 LB (got it right that time, will ;-)) a week, at best.

    The rest of the mass he puts on will be fat.

    While I know Will is seeking something to argue about at the end of the day he and I are saying the same thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭Will Heffernan


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    You don't need to understand the sciencey bits to see that what you're posting does not apply to this thread or what Will's saying.

    The poster in question is a 200lb+ rugby prop forward. The key elements in the studies you've posted that show they do not apply to the topic at hand (you may not have access to the full text of the first one):
    I noticed that as well :)

    Thanks for backing me up...I was busy in another thread pointing out erroneous information...the result...boards loses yet another poster who we won't see again :(

    *Just needed to correct that...we will see them again...just with a different account name is all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet



    The OP want to put on 10-12 KG of muscle in a short period of time without getting fat, My point (and the point of the research to my understanding) is that he simply cannot. The best he can hope for should genetics, training (past and present) and luck all perfectly come together is .5 LB (got it right that time, will ;-)) a week, at best.

    Re-read the first post no where does he mention muscle, He says bulk everytime. Bulk =/= muscle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    Re-read the first post no where does he mention muscle, He says bulk everytime. Bulk =/= muscle

    read almost every other post where he says he does not want to put on fat.

    fat also =/= muscle.

    I admit I assumed a little here but through a process of elimination when he said he wanted bulk and not fat I immediately thought muscle not bone, fluid or height.

    Forgive my crazyness, I assumed he wanted extra kg's in muscle and not extra inches in height.

    At OP, if you want to put on extra inches to gain weight then you're probably looking at around 10lbs per Inch. Unfortunately it's very hard to add extra height through exercise alone, you're gonna have to eat loads and think tall.


    source:
    I would be in KFC double fisting family buckets.

    Haha Cheers for the advice mate, especially about the KFC buckets, I do want to bulk up quick, but really do not want to put on a gut, if you know what I am saying, I'm a bit worried about that tbh with you.
    Yeah I know its catch 22, I do want and need to bulk up but I really dont want to put on a gut,
    It just seems like you would put on alot of unwanted fat that way because that food is so high in fat and thats not what i want
    Yeah I understand that mate, but theres more of a possibility of it ending up there if I'm eating food like that which is high in Saturated fat
    good man, any help on how i can bulk up not how i can get fat cheers
    I am mate tbh with you, I'm a bit worried about getting a massive belly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 239 ✭✭Woofstuff


    eat a whole chicken or 2 a day (take the skin off at least one of them) and you would get a fair wack of protein

    You know what they say, a chicken a day keeps the doctor away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Supermacs 10 oz burger, take one a day after dinner.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    Is it weight you wanna out on or muscle
    Sorry if its been asked before but I went from a 2nd centre to a flanker after months of eating plenty of protein and cutting out carbs and only training twice a week and gym twice also.
    Went from 82 kg to 96 kg now and still doing the same routine and its worked for me.

    I want to put on muscle but understand that I'm not going to put on 10 kilos of muscle in a Month I'm not an idiot, how long did it take you to put on that weight Mate?, and did ur bmi go up much


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    same goes to you will, genius.

    and the research I have says that this is even on the high side, but I didnt want to deflate the OP before he even starts or he stands no chance.
    But he is in a bracket which should be able to make up muscle mass easier than most so there is always hope.

    Cheers Mate tbh honest with I do feel a bit deflated, cheers for ur advice though Mate, I was only looking for a bit of helpful pointers, so according to others at best naturally I can only put on 0.5 pnds of muscle a week, so what others are saying I'm a dreamer for thinkn otherwise


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    xgtdec wrote: »
    So....is the OP bulking up..or not?

    Trying to pal
    ;-)

    Any advice?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭dor843088


    Cheers Mate tbh honest with I do feel a bit deflated, cheers for ur advice though Mate, I was only looking for a bit of helpful pointers, so according to others at best naturally I can only put on 0.5 pnds of muscle a week, so what others are saying I'm a dreamer for thinkn otherwise

    0.5 lb per week is even rediculously high thats 25lb of lean mass in a year? Not going to happen . A bulk to acquire any noticeable gain in lean mass would take around 6months imo . Its blood sweat and years or steroids.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 slimjimabs1887


    At this stage having been training for something over 90% of my life. I normally just go on feel but with an upper lower split, ie one day focus on upper body one focus on lower body. On the days with over two sessions the extra sessions were generally olympic lifting with a team or f*cking round with the guys I worked with.



    Here's an example of an Upper body session

    Session 1

    A1: Push press 6-15 sets of 3 20x0

    A2: BW chins one set between each set of push press 4010

    B1: Reverse grip bench 6-15 sets of 3 3010

    B2: Hammer strength seat row, focus on the squeeze, sets of 6-8 2122


    Here's lower body session

    A1: leg press 5x20 3010

    A2: Back extension 5 x12-15 @ bw 4010

    B1: Bulgarian split squat 4 x8-10 32x0

    B2: seated calf raise 4x15-20 2212

    What percentage of your one rep max were u lifting in this work out Mate?


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