HELP!! need advice on body mass/weight and control
Question Posted Wednesday August 15 2007, 1:33 pm
ok I posted a question before on how to gain weight and muscles but at the same time to not grow too much fat and ppl told me to eat more protein/do bodybuilding exercises and lay off the fat
i have been consumed lots of pasta/bread/fish/cereal/water/chicken/beef/pizza over the last one month or so.The reason of me doing this is that I'm now skinny,and I want to grow more 'meat' so to be bigger.
1)The only place that seems to be growing bigger is my stomach,how do I get the meat or the food to go to my arms and body(I want to grow my whole body,as in bigger like sideways as well,and not just my stomach)
2)Once I get the meat to my entire body,I obviously exercise to get muscles,the problem now is that I'm skinny and need the meat,so if I exercise I'm going to lose the meat that structures my body.How do I build muscles through exercising while not losing the meat I have gained over my food consumption cause I want to have a bigger mass bod as well.
MikeCFT answered Wednesday August 15 2007, 6:33 pm: This plan is all out of whack. It's not really shocking that your stomach is getting bigger.
So you're saying that you're just going to eat and all of the bodyfat accumulated is going to go to the right spots and then magically it will all convert to muscle because you're going to start lifting weights? That's not how it works.
You're either bulking or you're cutting. Simply- In order to gain muscle size- you need to be having an adequate amount of calories to facilitate hypertrophy. When cutting- the body is not getting quite as many calories; causing less size. This is why you can't gain muscle and lose fat at the same time no matter what the guy at the gym tells you :-P
There is no greater example of input = output than bodybuilding. Crap in = Crap out.
If you're not exercising, then how are you metabolizing this influx of calories? All you're doing is hindering your progress for when you do start to lift weights.
Screw this "building meat" phase and cut out that pizza and focus on eating and training like a bodybuilder. Remember- If you want to look like a bodybuilder; you have to eat and train like one. Building muscles isn't easy and it's going to require all of your heart and soul if you want to make any legitimate gains. Eat well, lift heavy, get good amounts of rest. That's really all there is to it. [ MikeCFT's advice column | Ask MikeCFT A Question ]
mariahneu answered Wednesday August 15 2007, 5:58 pm: 1. You cannot by any means control wear you gain muscles or not gain muscles. Your body just chooses the places where you'll get muscles at random, doing more exercising and such on a specific area of your body won't help. You just have to exercise as a whole, and pretty soon the muscle will all even out.
2. Always remember that cardio exercises help you burn calories, not build muscles. You must do strength training in order to build muscles. Try lifting weights and such. If you're trying to build muscle in your legs, then just walk a few miles, increasing the miles that you walk each day. Walking tones your legs, running burns calories. Always remember that.
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