Trying To Bulk Up

man utd 07/08

I M TRYING TO BULK UP BUT CANT SEEM 2 EVEN THOUGH IVE A GOOD FOOD DIET.WHATS THE BEST THING I CAN GET????
HEARD "TONY QUINN HEALTH STORE" HAVE A PROTEIN DRINK...ANY1 HELP????THANKS:cool:

tribulus

Post up your diet, in detail.

Do you want to gain fat that's easy just eat anything you want and don't move much.

If you want to gain muscle, you need to lift weights, take in enough calories to support muscle growth, get enough protein, enough carbs - not much, some fat and vit/mins etc.

Read the stickies to help you out.

ApeXaviour

First off... please please please don't post in all capital letters. It's considered shouting and it makes your post difficult to read.

Secondly I'm tempted to ask why you want to bulk up. Whether for vanity or sport it's none of my business, fitness forum will help you out more specifically on your goals there.

Increasing the ratio of protein among your calories usually will make one "bulk" somewhat in a lean way, as most people don't eat enough. That means increasing the proportion of lean meat, eggs, fish among what you eat. You can get powdered whey and other proteins from any health-food or fitness shop, and from fitnessireland.ie so shop around. Try not to get ones with sugar in them, and if you do, only take them immediately after training.

Resistance training is important, but go onto the fitness forum for that.

barclay2

eat lots of protein but i dont think you really need to use protein shakes. You can easily get a lot of protein in from regular food, and consume more of it than they need to, as shown here http://weighttraining.about.com/od/nutritionforweights/qt/protein_howmuch.htm.
Looks like getting about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of bodyweight is about right.

In general, make sure you're eating more calories than you burn each day.

Supposedly it helps if you space your meals out across the day - have 5 or 6 small meals rather than two or three big ones. Has something to do with the body's tendency to absorb less protein if you consume it all in one big go.

rubadub

Tony Quinn is a rip-off merchant, and that is the best thing I can say about the oddball.

If you do decide to take supplements then buy from www.pronutrition.ie or www.irish-lifting.com both owners are members here and are conincidentally probably the best prices you will find for branded protein & other supplements.

mack1

If you want to get big, lift heavy things and eat a lot of food. It really is that simple. If you say you are doing that and not seeing results lift heavier things and eat more food.

As mentioned above, post up your diet - just pick a day and tell us exactly what you eat. Also what your current stats are. I have seen this from plenty of friends, 9 times out of 10 they are not eating enough, they just think they are.

Dr. John Berardi wrote:

@ http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/philosophy/jb_top10.htm

Lesson #3: Skinny Guys, If You Want To Get Big, You’d Better Eat Big!

This lesson is one I learned the hard way, being a former skinny guy. Of course, it’s not necessarily applicable to everyone out there trying to gain muscle mass, but if you’re a classic ectomorph, lean and lanky, the story below is the most important you’ll ever hear.

Once upon a time, there was a scrawny kid named John. After two years of
training, at 5’8", scrawny John had only managed to hit an embarrassing 150 pounds at 10% body fat. With a goal of bench pressing his body weight, scrawny John toiled away for two years without reaching this achievement. Cursing the gods, believing he was doing "everything in his power" to gain muscle mass, scrawny John was about ready to give up and take up an endurance sport or something.

But just before exchanging his weight lifting belt for some cycling tights, he
had an epiphany! A friend of scrawny John’s went away to a football training
camp for a month and came back 15 pounds heavier. Begging for the secrets produced nothing. The friend told scrawny John that there weren’t any. Simply, he and the other guys at camp were taught to eat five or six big meals per day. Angry, scrawny John told him that he already did that.

But when scrawny John realized that he’d need to eat breakfast meals that
consist of 12 whole eggs, four packets of plain instant oatmeal, and four slices of rye toast; lunches that consisted of three whole grain bagels, a pound of lean beef, and a huge salad; and dinners that consisted of a full pound of pasta, a few cups of broccoli, and a half pound of lean ground beef, he understood where he was going wrong. And not only did he adopt these breakfast, lunch, and dinner strategies, he began eating five whole grain bagels slathered with natural peanut butter and drinking a couple of liters of protein drink throughout the rest of the day.

Sound absurd? Well, not only does it sound absurd, it looked absurd. But, after two more years, scrawny John wasn’t so scrawny any longer.

As you can imagine, scrawny John was me. Utilizing these feeding techniques, I went from a 5’8" 150 pound guy (at 10% body fat) aspiring to bench press my own body weight, to a 210 pound guy (at 12% body fat) bench pressing 315 for multiple reps.

If you think you’ve "tried everything," think again. You’ve gotta eat big to get
big.

rubadub

mack1 wrote: »

I have seen this from plenty of friends, 9 times out of 10 they are not eating enough, they just think they are.

VERY true!
Weigh and calculate what you eat, not what you put on your plate, what you eat. I know many "pickers" who sit down to a 1000kcal feast, and eat 500kcal.

And vice versa, big people who "only eat a sandwich", a fecking elvis sambo!

walt0r

*snigger*