What is good for stackin pounds

probly foods like fish, eggs, pasta. whatever is high in protein and carbs. don't waste money on creatine...it just bloats your cells with water aka supposedly it will make you bigger, but only by adding water weight.
 
yeah. steak. read meat. good quality whey protein. you can get big bags from costco for pretty cheap. pork will help. chicken, if you can't afford the first two.
 
forget that, if you want to gain weight, what you want is carbs not protein. protein just speeds up your metabolism and increases enzymes and whatnot that make you get the most out of the energy (carbs) that you take in. so if you want to gain weight on a not so big budget, buy a sack of potatoes and and big bag of rice. potatoes and rice is all you really need to gain weight but not to gain muscle, then you needs beans and protein and w/e.
 
Are you talking about just plain gaining weight, or bulking up? Two very different things that would require a different approach. Realistically, your not going to just eat a certain food and suddenly get unscrawny. You can make yourself fat, but evenly gaining more mass is going to take a little more work than that.
 
protein just speeds up your metabolism? wow this post couldn't be more wrong.

Since you're on a budget, go to the bookstore (or library if they have it), find Arnold Schwarzenegger's Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding, and read the section on gaining weight. It outlines 3 levels if I remember right. Basically, if you try level one and aren't gaining, you move up to level 2, then 3. That is some of the most sound, useful advice you'll get on the subject.
 
Yweah

and in addition just sit on your ass and play video games because you wont burn any calories that way
 
Chicken breast, rice, and a vegetable at every meal.

There are microwavable rice singles (white rice not that nasty instant chicken and rice meal crap) and get a $30 George Foreman grill and a big bag of frozen chicken breasts. Take the weeks worth of chicken and put it in tupperware in the fridge to thaw with some italian dressing.

Meal time, nuke the rice, grill the chikin, eat teh veggeh.

Drop and do 40 pushups whenever you have spare time, every night do an ab routine, and get a pull-up bar or tree. Once you can do 100 pushups without stopping you'll start gaining a lot and you'll be a solid rock. Also no-weight squats (like, 100 of them at a time) are great for quads and skiing.
 
ok so i play tennis roughly 18 hours a week, i do fitness and lift weights about 6 hours a week plus i have super fast metabolism. i'm 6'6" and i should be at about 215 pounds and im at 180 right now.

thanks for all the responses, im just wondering.. would i gain weight if i ate tons of junk food?? or would i just feel weak and poo a lot?
 
dude your so thin, you actually have to gain alot more weight being 6'6" and trash tennis go for basketball or football, but from now on, just eat a shit load of tortollini and pasta
 
Nah dude being thin is good, you dont want huge mass you want dense strong muscle. Thats why I say push-ups and natural exercises instead of trying to lift 2359123 pounds, ruining your joints, and getting water-filled man-tits. Being a defined skinny kid gets you the ladies and you can also walk and move after age 40.

Look at these morons who bench 500lbs in 15 years, and they wont be nearly as pretty. Theres a reason tiny japanese dudes can be stronger than body builders, and live to be 95.
 
ive been training for the sport for like 8 years, i just can't leave it, but it helps to be tall in this sport too so its not like im being dumb.
 
ive played tennis all my life and being tall is a huge plus. work your abs and quads, those ar ethe most important muscles for tennis. that where all your power comeres from!
 
How do you weight train 6 hours a week and ask "would i gain weight if i ate tons of junk food??". Nutrition and what you eat go hand in hand with physical training!

I want to try and help you here, but you still haven't answered some key pieces of information.

1. First, and most importantly, what kind of weight are you trying to gain! There is fat, there is muscle, and there is even water. What are you trying to do here? You haven't made that clear anywhere, so no one can help you out properly. So - Are you trying to simply push a higher number on a scale? Are you trying to become physically bigger in size to proportionalize your height... what are you trying to do?

2. What are your current eating habits?

3. What is your weight training program like? Days of the week, routine, rep and set count even? Thats basic, but feel free to be detailed.

 
Mcdonalds dude...they pump their bovine full of steriods to make them huge and what not pound a couple burgs atfer the gym and ur bound to tack on the pounds
 
yo this was the method...

eat tons of meat like as much as you can greasy hamburgers and sheeit

then after you finish

lay down for a long time
 
OK, so I am trying to become more proportionate for my size, I'm pretty toned all around, but most of all I'm not wide at the waist and core; my shoulders aren't that bad.

Second Part. I have a bagel for breakfast with oatmeal, then milk, yogurt, and some fruit usually. For lunch it varies... I could eat fast food one day, or make my favorite tuna sandwich with a soup, or make myself cheese quesedillas. For dinner it's always home made, being a standard salad on the side, with some meat (its about balanced between beef, pork, chicken and I have fish once a week). Then rice, potatoes, or bread. I always have a 4th meal before I go to bed cause I get hungry, which is like my lunch, except I never have fast food. About junk food, I eat anything offered, except sometimes I try to watch the saturated and trans fats. I dont snack that often, but if I do ill probably make a PBJ or something like that.

Lastly, within a week I get my workouts done on whatever schedule I can do. This being, upper body lifting twice a week, lower body lifting twice a week. Core exercises four times a week. Additionally I run on the treadmill for 20 minutes twice a week. For my upper body its mostly a circuit which I spend about 45 minutes on (15 reps, 2 circuits). Alternatively, I would lift 12 reps, with 3 sets. Lower body, I do agility training on court (about 30 minutes) then I do certain exercises in similar format to the upper body. Both upper and lower body exercises are a mix of free-weights and lifting machines. Core exercises is all body weight (except for back) and this takes me about 25 minutes each time.

Thats about all I can think of right now, lemme know your suggestions.
 
Thats sick thanks.

I laughed at the beginning when it listed food like 'food, food, food, nuts...' The dots at the end made me laugh.
 
why do you want to be fat???? that pretty gay.

or do you want to look like a big tough guy? cause that would be gay too.
 
you have 315 posts.... for a second i thought it was your name and i was like woah its 315 saying something other than skiierman strikes again

haha that was kinda random
 
ok i just figured out that i have a 3500 calorie daily intake. so i need to eat 4000 calories a day to gain 1 pound in 1 week. is it just me or is 4000 calories a lot of food
 
Alright, good info.

The first thing you should know is that for some people, despite what you do, your may always be disproportionately tall/slim. You can't do all that much to change your skeletal structure and physical disposition sometimes.

But, that disclaimer aside..

From reading this myself, and form a friend of mine who is is quite into health and fitness that I showed this to, there are a couple of very clear things.

1) You eat nowhere near enough food for your size and your physical habits. Not even close. Someone your size and with your exercize habits could very likely consume up to 5000 calories per day at thier ideal weight. The eating habits you've described are more akin to a 5'10" to 5'11" 170-180 pound semi-active male (a rough guess form the description). That causes a unique problem that happens when you combine insufficient calorie intake, anarobic exercize (weights), and arobic exercize (tennis, treadmill, etc). When you don't consume enough calories, your body begins to consume muscle as well as fat, which is very counter productive to your weight training, which prevents you from gaining any significant bulk from lifting weights. And on top of that, you definately won't retain any fat based weight either considering what you do and how much you eat. You muscles may remain fairly toned, but they won't grow that much in size, if at all.

2) Your exercize routines sound great. You might benefit from a lower rep count and increased weight with your lifting. Don't go too low, as this will increase strength significantly, but not size. Try 12-13 reps at higher weight (of course, if your trying to gain strength, then this is a different story and should be much further reduced). This is very general as everyone is different, but give it a try and see how it is.

As for food, aim for 4000-4500 calories per day (this isn't all that much for someone your size / fitness level), but do not.. read: DO NOT just eat the fattiest, sugary, crap you can find. That pdf file someone posted isnt half bad. Stick to high protien foods, and foods with beneficial fats. Stay away from sugar and basic carbohydrates. Eat 6 times a day. Aim for 100 grams of protien every single day. Eggs, meats, and so on are good sources.
 
yea i really need to put on weight to for football (im 5'11 130) just try to get into the weight room. or if your really desperate steriods work pretty good.
 
are you like on a college sports team or just like staying in shape?

because if you're on a sports team you could probably go ask a trainer, they might know alittle more than teh average ns'er.
 
wow thank you very very much. you are my favorite newschooler.

i'll post back in a week after trying to eat 4-5k calories a day.

thanks again!
 
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