Muscle gain

[texas23]

this kinda seems like a wierd question but is it possible to not gain muscle? ive allways been skinny but i weight train and try to eat as much as possible but dont gain much muscle. Im sure it has to do with me being young and skinny but i didnt know if yall knew of something?

[Darkhorse]

Sounds like you just have an extremely fast metabolism, which is fine. It is oftentimes difficult to eat as many cals as you need.

What constitutes, "eating as much as possible". In other words, what exactly do you eat in a day? And be honest!

[texas23]

o ya fast metabolism. ya im sure food is where i go wrong. didnt think about that. i eat tons but not what i should. thats the thing ive had the most trouble with, eating good. So when i start getting all my calories through "good foods" i should start growing?

[Darkhorse]

Originally Posted by 0311

What constitutes, "eating as much as possible". In other words, what exactly do you eat in a day? And be honest!

Can you give a typical example of a day??

[texas23]

well thats kinda hard because i eat alot of snacks through out the day but get up cerial, lunch hamburger/fries, dinner generally pretty good meat, veggies, etc.

man when you make me me list them i eat like crap

[Darkhorse]

Originally Posted by texas23

this kinda seems like a wierd question but is it possible to not gain muscle? ive allways been skinny but i weight train and try to eat as much as possible but dont gain much muscle.

Originally Posted by texas23

man when you make me me list them i eat like crap

Well there you go. Answered your own question.

Originally Posted by texas23

but get up cerial, lunch hamburger/fries, dinner generally pretty good meat, veggies, etc.

Three squares a day and snacks in between is not gonna get her done. And definately isn't "eating as much as possible".

[Scorcher2005]

You should prolly read the sticky on "How to Bulk", then put together a diet of your own. If you truely are a hardgainer, you may need 4000+cals a day. But by the sounds of it, maybe you really arent, you just think your eating enough but really arent because you arent keeping a log of it. Keeping a log of that AND your training are very important tools.

After doing that, you should post up your diet and routine for critiqueing.

[texas23]

ya alright will do..so by lifting its almost making me skinnier because i burn all the calories and theirs none left over? or something like that?

[texas23]

mk i went to "how to bulk" and found out my calories i need. To stay at the weight that im at right know is 3367 and to gain a pound a wk/ is about 3850. so know ive got to get a log together but thanks for yalls help so for keep it coming if yall have more

[Kane]

Trust me, I feel your pain. Eating is harder than the actual workout. I'm on a diet of 5000cals per day and trust me, sometimes its hard enough to hit 4000.

Best thing you can do is find foods and combinations that have high protein and high carbs, you won't find that in one thing but you need to combine a bunch of shit together. Maybe for breakfast make 6 scrambled eggs with cheese and slap them into 2 or 3 english muffins. Shit like that will help you indefinitely because its got the protein, carbs and fat that you need and not alot that you don't. When you're hitting the high calories (IMO anyway) you can't fuck around and scarf food that will only fill the space in your stomach, you need to be 'strategic' or you won't make the macros and calories every day.

For example, you could eat a bag of rice cakes and be full, but you're not gonna gain muscle eating a bag of rice cakes in place of somehting else.

For the first bit (month or so) I would make a log of eveyrthing you eat and see how you pan out. After that you should be able to figure out if you're hitting the cals and macros 'by eye'.