okay, so this summer, i went from 135lb to 127...came back to school i went back up to 135 in around 3-4 weeks....its been 3 weeks since then and i am STUCK at 135!!!!!
I know what everyone is goiing to say.......EAT
I doo, alott, but i cant eat any more than I am, I upped my shake another 200cal, but that wont do it...
SO...I was wondering..I do noo cardio at all, just weight lift...if I were to only weight lift once a week, and do abs every other day, would I gain weight alot quicker, and keep my abs? I want to do this for a month an a half....
would this work??? is weightlifting 5-6 times a week keeping me from gaining that extra weight?? please help!
If you've gone backwards or come to a plateau, then the FIRST factor you need to look at is NUTRITION. And everyone will be right - if you are NOT gaining, then you are NOT eating ENOUGH, period!
No, lifting only once a week and doing abs every other day is NOT going to help you gain muscle mass better than if you were training PROPERLY. If you want to gain muscle mass, then you need to TRAIN - as well as EAT - for it!
nooo! I want to GAIN weight!!!
im at 135 i want to get to 145 by mid December.....
would lifting once a week help me gain weight alot quicker than weightlifting 5-6 times a week?
If you're only concerned about gaining WEIGHT - which you should NOT be, since scale weight is IRrelevant, IMO - then you can EASILY gain weight just through your nutrition (trust me, I can gain - and lose - ~15-20 pounds in a WEEK!) If you want to gain weight, you should want it to be LEAN MASS, preferable MUSCLE mass, since you could easily gain weight and have it all food, water, and fat, and that's not cool.
Re lifting, see my response above. And you certainly do NOT need to be lifting 5-6 times a week; 3-4 times is sufficient if you have the RIGHT TRAINING PROGRAMME! You'd be better off doing three days a week - Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - and just sticking to the multijoint compound lifts.
Just an example training programme. It's not your typical mass gaining programme re recovery, but it's basic and simple, and it WORKS for mass - certainly did for me, and I am a very experienced trainee (albeit I was also doing more training in the form of HIIT/HIT/Cardio with it):
Monday
Weights: 20 reps total per exercise of sets of 4-5RM (30 seconds recovery between sets)
1. Underhand-Grip Barbell Bent Over Rows
2. Overhead Barbell Squats
3. Weighted Dips
4. Barbell Ab Rollout
Wednesday
Weights: 40 reps total per exercise of sets of 8-9RM (45 seconds recovery between sets)
1. Wide-Grip Lat Pull-Downs
2. Incline Dumbbell Bench Press
3. Barbell Romanian Deadlift (plates to floor)
4. Close-Grip Barbell Bicep Curls
5. Hanging Straight-Leg Raises
Friday
Weights: 25 reps total per exercise of sets of 4-5RM (30 seconds recovery between sets)
1. Barbell Front Squats
2. Flat Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press
3. Close-Grip Supinated Reverse Rack Pulls (feet on bench)
4. Barbell Push Press
Okay here it goes...
everyday pretty much the same...its college food haha
breakfast- bowl of cereal with whole milk, some type of fruit, rasberry ice tea..sometimes i I switch it up maybe twice a week with eggs, toast, and bacon
lunch- honestly I can not say, I almost always have a bowl of soup, fruit, along with probably 2 plates of whatever they have cooken that day...I'd say I consume around 600-700cal for lunch, and same for dinner, Ive recorded it on mypryamid 6-7 times, depending on what I ate that day, and it usually comes out to be that....
Dinner-same as lunch
snacks- I always eat a packet of peanut butter crackers, and I usually have one cookie, and chex mix...but the cookie and chex mix at night ive been slacking on, i will admit that.
shake- I use truemass 2 scoops along with olive oil, and peanut butter-huge scoop....
I take creatine, aminos, fishoil, and im on natadrol right now, been on it for bout 5 weeks now...its okay, I would not rant about it...its weird last semester, after first few weeks of lfting, the pain would stop all together, now, the next day my body just kills on the part that I worked from the other day...and my lifts have not gone up at all.....only for the arms...anyone know why?
so there it is...I'm jsut starting to try working out every other day, see if that helps, but would doing even less help me gain the weight? like work out twice a week?
Hope I get some responses...Thanks guys!
Sounds like you don't really know what you're doing and are just doing something and hoping it works - definitely NOT the way to get results or see progress. Working out every other day is not the answer, nor is working out only once a week.
If you're not getting results, it's because:
1. Your NUTRITION sucks - you're not eating enough, and what you ARE eating is far from desirable; and
2. Your TRAINING is hit and miss and not set up for gaining mass.
As bdcc said, "Go and get a good trainer" - this would be the best option for you, IMO.
If you don't want to, then read and do some personal research for yourself. Start by reading articles on your body goal.
Gaining Muscle contains nutrition, supplementation, and training articles. As far as training, read
How To Maximize Mass Through Weights And Adaptation for comprehensive information on how to set up a training programme for mass.
~Rosie~
The Primordial Woman
