Hey everyone. I'm 5'11 and 155 pounds. I have just started working out recently. I would like to gain about 30 pounds in a little over one month. Now I'm well aware that very little if any of this will be muscle, but I'm ok with that. I just need to know how to put on the weight. Certain areas like my chest, neck and waist are very small so any help is appreciated. I've started to double up my portions but so far it has no effect. Thanks.
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Sport Need help gaining 30 pounds
- Thread starter Unsonance
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Consistant intake of food, basically have food with you all of the time and keep eating it.
This will gain you weight, and if you eat enough could get you the 30 pounds in just over as many days, but my advice is unless there is a solid reason to do this don't.
1 pound fat = 3,500 calories, to gain this in muscle could take up to double by the time you are fuelling the training metabolising and growth.
There is absolutely no natrual way, and even assisted this would be unlikely, to gain this volume of muscle in that time.
Being absurdly optomistic, we will say that you gain 5 pound of muscle in that time, more than most in substantially more, leaving 25 pounds of fat gain. Doing that in a month could very possibly be the last thing you ever do, and I am not exageratting.
Filling you lymphatic system and blood stream with that amount of fat and converting it to stored energy is potentially deadly, and there is a lot of potential.
Good luck on your weight gain, but seriously dump the time span and do it properly.
This will gain you weight, and if you eat enough could get you the 30 pounds in just over as many days, but my advice is unless there is a solid reason to do this don't.
1 pound fat = 3,500 calories, to gain this in muscle could take up to double by the time you are fuelling the training metabolising and growth.
There is absolutely no natrual way, and even assisted this would be unlikely, to gain this volume of muscle in that time.
Being absurdly optomistic, we will say that you gain 5 pound of muscle in that time, more than most in substantially more, leaving 25 pounds of fat gain. Doing that in a month could very possibly be the last thing you ever do, and I am not exageratting.
Filling you lymphatic system and blood stream with that amount of fat and converting it to stored energy is potentially deadly, and there is a lot of potential.
Good luck on your weight gain, but seriously dump the time span and do it properly.
The downside to trying to put on 30 lbs is that you can't control where it's going to go. It will most likely go to your stomach and love handles.
Not to mention that gaining a pound a day will be terrible for you, and you're going to end up with much more fat than muscle and will probably not be happy with the outcome.
Not to mention that gaining a pound a day will be terrible for you, and you're going to end up with much more fat than muscle and will probably not be happy with the outcome.
If you don't mind me asking - what is the purpose to gaining so much weight in such a short time? Perhaps, if we knew the reasons, we could give better advice to achieve your goal?
If you don't mind me asking - what is the purpose to gaining so much weight in such a short time? Perhaps, if we knew the reasons, we could give better advice to achieve your goal?
To achieve my dream body, I need to gain a significant amount of weight. I am currently skinny, and need to bulk up in certain areas (neck, waist, chest, etc).
You said you're aware that gaining most of those 30 pounds wouldn't be muscle. That being said, I think you're confused about the way things work. Gaining 30 pounds of fat isn't going to help you get your dream body. Fat does not magically turn into muscle. Working the muscle and eating extra calories (without overdoing it) builds more muscle.
You want to gain 30lb? Great. You want to do it to get your dream body? Excellent. Now let's shift the time frame from 1 month to 12 months, and you might actually be closer to your dream body 12 months from now. Gain 30lb in 1 month, and you'll spend the next 12 months just trying to undo the damage (as oldie indicated, that's assuming you'll have 12 months after such a stint), and you'll end up more or less right back where you are now. Sorry to join in the buzz-kill parade, but unless your dream body is a fat body, there's not going to be any benefit to gaining more than 1lb/wk. For me personally, even 1lb/wk is too much to be worth while, and I'm currently about the same weight as you.
If you do it right, in the first year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 20lb of muscle. Maybe. In the next year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 10lb of muscle. Maybe. From there on out, you're looking at 3-5lb of new muscle mass per year of progressive training and bulking. So there's absolutely no point in gaining 30lb in under a year. Best case scenario you're looking at a couple years worth of training to get the body you're after. Gaining 30lb in a month won't fast-track those results: as oldie pointed out, if you're lucky it'll just make you 25lb fatter -- in reality it'll probably be even more fat gains than that, and the health consequences could seriously be devastating. Besides all that, if it doesn't kill you, it will turn you into a walking stretch mark, which probably won't complement your dream body.
If you do it right, in the first year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 20lb of muscle. Maybe. In the next year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 10lb of muscle. Maybe. From there on out, you're looking at 3-5lb of new muscle mass per year of progressive training and bulking. So there's absolutely no point in gaining 30lb in under a year. Best case scenario you're looking at a couple years worth of training to get the body you're after. Gaining 30lb in a month won't fast-track those results: as oldie pointed out, if you're lucky it'll just make you 25lb fatter -- in reality it'll probably be even more fat gains than that, and the health consequences could seriously be devastating. Besides all that, if it doesn't kill you, it will turn you into a walking stretch mark, which probably won't complement your dream body.
If you do it right, in the first year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 20lb of muscle. Maybe. In the next year of progressive training and bulking, you might gain 10lb of muscle. Maybe. From there on out, you're looking at 3-5lb of new muscle mass per year of progressive training and bulking.
Just calculating this out. Took me around 4 years to gain around 40 pounds when I started training to get my idea of perfection. I didn't do too badly really.
To do this however I dedicated a lot of my life to training, eating, recovering, and learning how to do all of these better.
One thing about be surrounded by roided freaks was I always felt I was gaining incredibly slowly. In the same time I watched one guy gain over 3 times as much with needlepoint supplements, but he paid for that is ways he regretted later, there is always a cost and some of them are 'interesting'. Truth told though he looked incredibly impressive and kept a lot of mobility despite the additional bulk, proving it can be done.
20 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 40. Funny how that works out. The fact that you were in a gym full of roidheads would actually be good for gains, by my estimations. A lot of people think that roidheads get away with doing anything, because the steroids make bad programming and bad diet magically become good, which is inaccurate, unless perhaps you're looking at someone who takes steroids and consequently makes the exact same progress that someone would make without them + grey matter between their ears. Truth be told, you were probably in a good environment to actually learn about eating and lifting (even if broscience ain't perfect). Besides that, watching everyone around you getting bigger and stronger normalises their results, and they can be very encouraging people. One of the biggest barriers between a man and his gains is the assumption that it's not normal to actually make such progress, or that he can't/shouldn't be able to make such progress. So, being in such an environment can cause great results just because you're used to seeing great results all around you, left, right and centre.
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I would rather recommend you to consult to the fitness trainer as they might help you in guiding what all you need to keep in mind and you have also mentioned earlier that you are well aware of the exercises, then it would be even more easier for you to adapt the workout exercises. Workout along with the proper dosage of the supplements would help you in gaining weight and building muscles. There are many supplements that one can consider but one of the supplements that my trainer suggested me was . Besides taking supplements you have to take proper diet and strict workout is required.
Just enhance your intake of carbs in the diet just keep eating potatoes in boiled or baked form . Drink a lot of whole cream milk and protein and fat intake will help also. Just keep eating whenever you feel like it. Eating a lot of carbs in combination of fats just after your workout will help alot to gain.