<p>Im following this muscle gaining plan and I hope I will have enough time to work out. How are the gyms? Also, if I want to eat six meals a day is it possible to do this?(chicken and clean food)??</p>
<p>My S has a packed schedule in CFA but has time to work out every day. He has been happy with the gym. You may want to rent a small fridge to keep foods specific to your diet. My S hasn't had trouble keeping his protein intake up. You just have to know what your food options are and where to get them.</p>
<p>New House has its own gym too. Most ppl just go to the UC. Gyms are great and you can only eat 3 meals on block. The rest you can buy with dine-x or your own money. Some of the blocks are pretty huge so I doubt you could eat 6 of them at day.</p>
<p>thanks guys for advice</p>
<p>Whats UC? How much is it for a normal gym membership if at all?</p>
<p>Uh... you use the gym whenever you want. The UC is in the University Center.</p>
<p>There should be no problem with working out. I think six meals is pretty much impossible with how the meal plan works out, unless you buy 3 meals and save stuff. Eating healthy without being repetitive is quite a challenge.</p>
<p>I think what is more impossible is eating 6 "meal blocks".</p>
<p>I can hardly finish one (especially the ones from the "o" back when they gave those collossal fries. That thing could feed me for a day).</p>
<p>The point of eating six meals a day is to increase your metabolism, and the rate at which your body uses calories. More calories are used, and these calories (if you r lifting) go into building muscle. </p>
<p>To all those who don't know the six meals a day is actually misleading. It is actually just six small meals a day. The point is to spread a typical three meals throughout the day so you utilize more calories. </p>
<p>You should try finding out how many caloris you use a day add about 500 to that and see if your seeing any gains. You don't want to eat too much or else youll gain fat too, and that new muscle wont matter. I would say about 3000-3500 a day should be fine for now. If not keep adding about 200 till u notice you r gainign muslce. 1-2 pnd gain a week max. </p>
<p>Also u cant gain muscle and lose fat at the same time its impossible. So run every other day, but not after a workout. Your muscles r in a stage where they can be better utilized for energy after a hard lifting workout, so oyu dont want to run. Lift, then have a whey protien shake right after that. </p>
<p>I gained 50 pounds of muscle for my senior year of football. I would recommend getting whey protein and taking a multivitamin. Lift one grp of muscles really hard each day. Your prlly already know all this. Also don't do creatine. I tried it, I didnt notice a change, and is really awful for your body. Your body can digest only about 1g a day the rest is turned into creatinine or something and is poisonous. </p>
<p>Didn't mean for this to sound like a how to guide cuz u prlly already know, just like to share my experiences lol.</p>
<p>Anyways ur best bet for time and wiehgt gain would be to have 3 regular meals and 3 whey protein shakes with nuts throughout the day. </p>
<p>Hope that helped</p>
<p>omg thanks but only work one muscle group per day? I usually just do the upper body on one day and the lower body another day. Im following body for life. Also Im an ectomorph.</p>
<p>srry i really meant ..ehh... like chest/triceps/shoulders one day....then back/biceps/delts/forarms..... quads/calve..../gluts/hammys...run and lift really light....run...rest.</p>
<p>But yea if muscle building is what your really after the key is to work your muscles to the point of exhaustion.(like where u feel the "pump") If your not sore for at least 2 days then u didnt work out hard enough.
The reason to lift a grp only 1 or 2 times a week is that lifting the same muscle grp hard-core more then 2 times a week can damage it. (muscle tears... and they wont grow as fast and will actualy get weaker since they cant fully repair.) </p>
<p>yep if muscle building is what ur after you should stick to that.</p>
<p>Here is what I did for chest... so you can see what I mean</p>
<p>Bench... 1x10(warmup)...1x6...3x3
Incline Bench...3x5
Chest with barbells...3x8
Butterflys(slow)...3x6
Bench explosion (put about 80-90% of ur max and have spotter lower it with you. Have arms in a wide position. Explode up using your muscle. Focus on power not speed.)
then about 2 tricep excesises
3 shoulders</p>
<p>For your chest the point is to feel exahsted after the second excersise.. like where your arms feel like jello. Keep lifting ... but if you feel pain stop.. theres always next week.</p>
<p>I got my bench up to 365 like that so I know it works</p>
<p>as for being a ectomorph ... this means 1 thing. (eat more..) and start your lifting routine off a little slower so you can work your body into it. The biggest key is to hit that spot where you dont overwork but r pretty close to it.</p>
<p>The problem is that the meal block, where I have on average two meal blocks and $4 of dineX/day, is not conducive to eating a bunch of small meals.</p>
<p>Well, the workout facilities are actually really nice for a small-medium technical school. The UC has the standard "health club" kind of machines, whereas Skibo gym has stuff like a high school gym would have such as free weights and the like (in addition to some fancier stuff upstairs). I've been pretty happy with it.</p>
<p>About your eating plan...you could easily make the meal block system work for you. I also like to eat several small meals spread throughout the day and with a little creativity you can do it. For example, you can get a breakfeast "block", which includes cereal, yogurt, 2 peices of fruit, a carton of milk, and a bottle of juice. Eat the cereal and a peice of fruit, drink the milk. Eat fruit and yogurt later on in the morning (I keep a little ice pack in my backpack). Sometimes you can even grab a little pack of peanut butter to spread on the fruit. I don't pay much attention to a bodybuilding diet, but you could figure it out.</p>
<p>This might help: <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/dining/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu/dining/</a></p>
<p>no chicken breat allowed in morning!!!??? i cant live with cereal...i need oatmeal tuna chicken breast and clean food, not processed junk or fruit juice</p>
<p>SISISISISISISIS (etc),</p>
<p>You gained 50 lbs muscle in one year? How many kcals over maintenance were you eating per day? I'm doing around 500 and I still can only get about 1.5 lbs a week, then it levels off.</p>
<p>About 500 cal maintanance a day is about right, but you can up it from there as long as your not gaining fat...everyones body is a little different. The point is to increase your testostorone production (naturally) to repair and build muscle faster. The only thing I really did to do this was eat...eat..eat... and I took omega 3-6-9, which boost testosterone output. Dont take anything from those drugstores. The main things is to have a healthy diet of fats (not saturated) and HDL cholestoral----those for some reasons that r expained and some that arnt have an effect to produce your bodys overall testostorone output. I think i was at about 1500 cal though (5500 total). Overall I gained 65 pounds though but my bf % decreased. I was up to 250... right now im cutting back ;) and ive lost 30 since dec. Spread your fat and protein throughout the day also. Just carry nuts in your pocket throughout the day and eat those... good fats and protein.. and take a protein shake right when you get up... after a workout,,, and at night. Also something that should be noted is to have a little (like 10-15g) bit of candy or simple sugar...dextrose right before your protien shake... this raises insulin lvls which transports nutrients to your muscles faster. Complex carbs should be a large part of your main three meals too. Also if your a healthnut eat lots of fruit since these extra calories and lifting will produce lots of toxins.</p>
<p>Basically lifting and that is all I did... just take a scientifc approach to it and youll be fine</p>
<p>To calculate how many calories you should be getting take this guide... I will calculate it how I would of when I was 190</p>
<p>Calories per gram<br>
fat 9 Carbohydrates 4 Protien 4</p>
<p>1.2 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight each day. (912 cal)</p>
<p>You should eat 4 grams of carbohydrates per pound of bodyweight each day. 3040cal</p>
<p>Fats:
You should eat 0.5 grams of fat per pound of bodyweight each day(initially) up this catagory the most when you need to up your calories. 855cal</p>
<p>4807 cal... take it from there and see if you r gettin too much or too little.</p>
<p>this thread is going in an odd direction..</p>
<p>not really.. the dudes on a muscle building diet/workout</p>
<p>I have a question about working out! I'm a girl, and I don't want to build mass necessarily, just get defined. I lift every day (well, I mean, lift for me is like <em>chuckle</em> for you buff guys, but hey) and cardio for 30 minutes before that. Mostly I do shoulders, back, and arms because I have a tiny upper body and big ol' whale legs. Someone told me that you should use heavy enough weights that you can only do 10-15 reps a set (3 sets). Is that true? I thought that was just to gain mass. If you just want to be more toned, don't you do lighter weights and more reps? With heavy weights, I feel it when I'm doing it but I don't feel any of the "afterburn" that I do after a lot of reps with lighter weights. Any advice?</p>