Weight Training For Beginners

[Chal Roarke]

if you weigh 100 kg then you need 200g of protein a day ез nourish that mass. But if your weight is say 60 kg then of course you don't.

[Puffwagon]

Yeah nah it depends.

Edited 01/05/22 08:36 PM by Captain Yeah Nah

[bossmang]

I cannot physically eat enough to gain any weight. ive tried.

 

so I have a shake with protein and extra carbs etc to help reach whatever I need. 

[Puffwagon]

Is there something medically wrong with you that prevents you from eating?

[k31th]

I very slowly gain weight... but I'm full natural; e.g. no supplements or anything, just me and some food and the gym. You can do it, you just have to eat a lot more than you think you can. Mostly calorie dense stuff if you're struggling like peanut butter etc.

[Puffwagon]

I was a rake as a kid and only a 75kg adult for years, even got as low as 62kg back in 2009 but quickly bounced back to 75kg where I had been most of my adult life. Not long after that I met my wife, together we had a much more stable lifestyle with a lot more food in the cupboard and has been like that since. Gaining weight takes years of consistent eating and lifting, not weeks or months. By 2012 I had gained weight to 90kg, 2014 up to 100kg, maybe another 5kg over the next few years and over the past 3 years or so have managed to get up to 120kg but miles too fat at that weight, haha but still built like a tank.

 

Through all that time I was lifting weights and had lifted weights even before then, but a lot more seriously over the past 7 years. Eating 3500 calories a day for months on end is tough but if you want that scale to go up you have to do it.

 

After all that, my ideal weight is around 105kg and a tad under 15% bf. Haha I actually had a 6 pack, visible shoulder, chest and leg striations at 105kg about 6 months ago, but have since been lazy on the lifting and heavy on the beer so yerp.

 

Haha maybe tmi but it's gotta be said that there is no such thing as a hard gainer or someone who can't gain weight, unless of course they have a medical issue. Nothing came to me easy, I was born the classic ectomorph but farken years of eating and lifting sure as sh*t made people think I did something they couldn't.

Edited 02/05/22 09:59 AM by Captain Yeah Nah
one farken letter

[k31th]

oh, hard gaining is true... genetically you take longer to get big... certain body shapes just don't take as long and can go further in the same timeframe. It's just as hard for everybody, in terms of calorie eating, though haha

[Puffwagon]

4 minutes ago, k31th said:

genetically you take longer to get big

 

That is a valid point but I wouldn't refer to that as a hard gainer. The hard gainer is generally someone who puts artificial limits on themselves cos they never bothered to try hard enough for long enough.

[k31th]

yeah, it's an oversimplification for sure

[bossmang]

3 hours ago, Captain Yeah Nah said:

Is there something medically wrong with you that prevents you from eating?

yer my job, dont really get a break. lol.