Yea, I didn't mean to imply that I wanted all my dreams to come true by next summer. haha. But I would like to make some serious progress too. But here's what I'm shooting for on my bulk diet...
calories: 3500
protein: at least 262 grams
Carbs: at least 262 grams
I'll try to shoot for low gi carbs during the day, then some high gi carbs post workout. I'd like to eat all my carbs before like 8pm, considering I go to bed at like 2am. I'd like to include about 15 -20 grams of fibrous carbs at lunch if possible.
fats: max of 155 grams.
This seems like a lot of fat to me, but I have a wicked fast metabolism, so I figure if I try to make most of it good fats I should be okay. Peanut butter is good to go right? I love that ****. haha
Supplements:
Whey protein isolate post workout, casein protein before bed. L Glutamine throughout the day. Arginine, creatine, and beta alanine pre workout. More creatine and beta alanine post workout. My friend has some vital labs Powerdrol that he wants to sell me for like $10, so I'm prolly gonna buy that. I'm thinkin I should prolly natural bulk for a month or 2, then take the powerdrol, do my pct, and bulk for another month or so, then start cutting again in the spring.
What do you think?
Too much protein, too few carbs, and well I'll let you decide on the fats...it depends oh how well your body processes them.
You are 177lbs right? Well here are the essentials for a Lean-Bulking diet. First off:
Calculate your TDEE and add kCalories to create a
surplus! (Believe me it is higher than 3500 kCals, I am 140 and I was eating that to grow 1lb per week
, a rough estimate for you would be around 3500 kCals for your TDEE, you would have to add 500+ kCals to be gaining weight)
Now lets see Macro Nutrient Essentials are made up like this:
1g of Protein per LB of BW (1g protein= 4 kCals)
.45-.5 g of fat per LB of BW (1g Fat = 9 kCals)
You would thus be around 180g of protein and 85~g of fat (again this are essential levels) so doing some good math calculate the total kCals that ammounts to, now subtract that from your
Surplus Caloric Number (Remember that is TDEE+Extra kCals) and Divide it by 4. This equals the Grams of carbs you should ingest.
So lets assume your Surplus is at 4000 kCals (just an example), you would be at:
180g prot
85g fat
620~g of carbs.
Again this are essentials, and I personally have benefited better from this for putting on muscle mass, and many more forum members here can share their experiences and they will fall along the same lines (or along Keto lines, but that's another boat)
Now lets see, you do not have to eat carbs way before bed time, that's broscience. Many people here (including myself) remain fairly lean and have carb meals just before going to bed. Fats can be dangerous too high, not for health issues, but because if you have a lot of carbs in there too, you are likely to use fats as main energy source and store carbs as bodyfat, thus keep it at essential levels.
Hm...supplement wise: Arginine is useless, beta alanine and creatine can be taken any time of the day and not needed to be pre-workout (I would actually suggest POST workout). I would suggest you do NOT do the Powerdrol since you have NO clue of what you are doing at all Nutrition-wise and nutrition is key to making gains.
If you do not know how to make gains naturally...how do you expect to do them on AAS? Magically? Besides you have not even graced your genetic potential even a little, and you have not trained enough to know a proper workout for Mass Building to take full advantage of AAS...If you want help with your training post it up and we can help you out.