Brilliant website/Article on being a hardgainer too

gabgab

www.70sbig.com

Well worth a look at, even if just for the comedy alone.

Shown to me by a friend in the gym, cheers Will. Its worth a look just for some of the funny video's,

Excellent bit about being a hardgainer,

Dave Tate:

There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn’t gain weight to save my ****ing life.

There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like ****ing magic. He’d go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.

I finally asked him one day how he did it.

“You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I’ll fill you in.”

Now remember, we’re at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious **** if we have to go outside, I thought.

So we get outside and he starts talking.

“For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don’t care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that **** down and eat. That’s your breakfast.”

At this point I’m thinking this guy is nuts. But he’s completely serious.

“For lunch you’re gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don’t want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bull****. I don’t care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can’t let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter.”

“For dinner you’re gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don’t like sardines, don’t put ’em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that ****er up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that **** over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the **** out of it.”

“Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that ****er. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals.”

This guy is in a zen-like state when he’s talking about this.

“Now you’re on the clock,” he continues. “After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you’re full. Don’t listen to that ****. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I’m telling you now, you’re going to get three or four pieces in and you’re gonna want to quit. You ****ing can’t quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.

And if you can’t finish it, don’t you ever come back to me and tell me you can’t gain weight. ’Cause I’m gonna tell you that you don’t give a **** about getting bigger and you don’t care how much you lift!”

Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn’t get much fatter. One of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, though.

d'Oracle

That site is gas.

Rip polishing his gun while answering questions about how to get 70's Big.:pac:

Hilarious.

gabgab

Yeh its brilliant,

Also like the no nonsense approach to it. That article is brilliant,

Jimmy Bottlehead

I don't know whether to laugh or admire it.

fatal

Pure Genius.I lol'd:P

d'Oracle

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

I don't know whether to laugh or admire it.

Bit of Both.

I think that's how it was intended.

podge57

Doug Young was the man, I would kill to look anything like this (yes, including the chest hair)

brutusthebarber

podge57 wrote: »

Doug Young was the man, I would kill to look anything like this (yes, including the chest hair)

Holy Crap!!

kevpants

Holy crap that website is everything I've been looking for, god such a bresh of fresh air compared with the shaved down, oiled up guys called Brad and Chad and Thad over on T-Nation.

I didn't realise it was JM Blakely who gave Dave Tate the diet lesson.

RIP Doug Young.

Here he is being more man than any man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JmRzEAlQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boGkOubCjsU

brutusthebarber

kevpants wrote: »

Holy crap that website is everything I've been looking for, god such a bresh of fresh air compared with the shaved down, oiled up guys called Brad and Chad and Thad over on T-Nation.

I didn't realise it was JM Blakely who gave Dave Tate the diet lesson.

RIP Doug Young.

Here he is being more man than any man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JmRzEAlQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boGkOubCjsU

Double Holy Crap!!

Jesus, that is some serious stuff, fainting after the second bench press!

Nate--IRL--

kevpants wrote: »

Holy crap that website is everything I've been looking for, god such a bresh of fresh air compared with the shaved down, oiled up guys called Brad and Chad and Thad over on T-Nation.

I didn't realise it was JM Blakely who gave Dave Tate the diet lesson.

RIP Doug Young.

Here he is being more man than any man.

Truly Amazing.

Nate

Hanley

Doug Young's one of my favourite lifters ever. I remember seeing those vids post above a year or so ago and was literally blown away. Absolutely the most sick fcuking hardcore thing I've ever seen.

And I don't believe a word of that Tate article. 260 at less than 10% bodyfat? Then went to 290 in a couple of months and barely gained any fat...?? Hmmmm.

celestial

gabgab wrote: »

www.70sbig.com

Well worth a look at, even if just for the comedy alone.

Shown to me by a friend in the gym, cheers Will. Its worth a look just for some of the funny video's,

Excellent bit about being a hardgainer,

Dave Tate:

There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn’t gain weight to save my ****ing life.

There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like ****ing magic. He’d go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.

I finally asked him one day how he did it.

“You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I’ll fill you in.”

Now remember, we’re at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious **** if we have to go outside, I thought.

So we get outside and he starts talking.

“For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don’t care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that **** down and eat. That’s your breakfast.”

At this point I’m thinking this guy is nuts. But he’s completely serious.

“For lunch you’re gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don’t want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bull****. I don’t care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can’t let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter.”

“For dinner you’re gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don’t like sardines, don’t put ’em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that ****er up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that **** over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the **** out of it.”

“Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that ****er. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals.”

This guy is in a zen-like state when he’s talking about this.

“Now you’re on the clock,” he continues. “After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you’re full. Don’t listen to that ****. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I’m telling you now, you’re going to get three or four pieces in and you’re gonna want to quit. You ****ing can’t quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.

And if you can’t finish it, don’t you ever come back to me and tell me you can’t gain weight. ’Cause I’m gonna tell you that you don’t give a **** about getting bigger and you don’t care how much you lift!”

Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn’t get much fatter. One of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, though.

So he put on approx 37 pounds in 8 weeks - nearly 5 POUNDS of weight PER WEEK and did'nt get much fatter. Mmmm K...

gabgab

Glad you liked it lads,

I would guess that the stories are fairly close to the truth especially when you consider just how hward these lads are going and how many calories they are eating,

@ Kevpants

I am a bit gutted they dont have a awesome supplement/nutrition product I can buy though

fcleere

podge57 wrote: »

Doug Young was the man, I would kill to look anything like this (yes, including the chest hair)

Zeus as a chap!!

Roper

I'd say that guy was a rhino in his day. I feel so much better about eating that whole 12 inch steak and veg pie now.

Everyone is so obsessed with being "lean" even if it means staying 58kgs. I'm not that big a guy- I'm 6'2" 85kgs- but I have such a limited interest in having visible abs. What matters to me is being stronger than the other guy I'm competing against and having fun training. I also like to eat food in great quantities, up to and including Ben and Jerry's, carvery, Guinness, milk, chocolate when I want to. Even if that's not that often, I'd still like to do it without looking in the mirror and tensing my gut the next day and worrying about the calories.

gabgab

Add it to your favourites Roper.These dudes fit in well with your approach.

Colm was saying he was out on monday and the place is looking well. Must pop out and have a look, I know Will was talking about doing a session with the Will from your gym

Every gym should have a Will

d'Oracle

Anyone else see John C. Reilly in Bob Young?

bigstar

this is great read, got from 70's big, its by JM Blakey, the same guy who Dave Tate mentioned, on weight gain.
http://www.wannabebig.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1370706&postcount=1