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[QUOTE="Kanix23"]
No surprise that some really bad advice is being given out here. I'll start with diet. You should be eating 5-6 meals per day, with lots of protein per meal. To the guy that said 100g of protein per day, that is definitely not enough unless we are talking about a teenage girl. I know some people may lose a kidney simply by reading this, but I probably consume about 300g protein per day(I don't count calories so IDK for sure...). Fats and carbs are both important in gaining weight, but try to separate out your fats from your carbs until you no longer can(because you're not gaining anymore). Have protein with every meal. For carbs, rice, potatoes, pasta, fruit are all good choices. For protein, really any kind of meat. For fat, just from the meat, nuts, peanut butter, eggs, stuff like that.
Now on to training. The standard advice nowadays is to give newbs a 3 day/week full body program. The truth is not very many people have gotten big off of such programs. They may be fine to start off with, but you should quickly graduate to an upper/lower split or a regular body part split(2-3 body parts per day, about 3 exercises per group). Training 4-6 days per week is absolutely fine and is how many people have gotten very big. Also, NEVER fall in to the "I don't want to get too big!" crowd. Trust me, if that's your approach you most definitely WILL NOT get big at all. Also, you have to be committed 24/7. This isn't for weaklings or pu$$ies so prepare to bust your ass and be committed. I play video games yet I still find the time to bodybuild, so just remember that 99% of excuses are for pu$$ies.
BTW, in my first year of training I gained 40 lbs. of mostly muscle, and a lot of strength.
Kanix23
But it takes a year to gain 10lbs of muscle and that's if you have good genetics & never miss training or a meal.
Oh, really? All the muscle I thought I was gaining is really fake! Thanks for your great contribution!
Dude, that is some serious BS. The first thing you should do when starting training(and LIFE for that matter...) is not limit yourself. Most newbs especially can gain around 20 lbs. of muscle pretty easily. From then on it gets harder, but don't limit yourself to specific numbers, especially when you have no idea where they came from and just heard it somewhere.
I think arnold said you can only gain 10 pounds of lean muscle per year. but it is also true that people that just start working out seem to gain muscle much more quickly than arnold (someone who has been doing it for a long time). but either way even what arnold says is 10 pounds of muscle so that is like 20 pounds of weight total (because you would also gain 10 pounds of fat).
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