Been working out for 2 months straight, 5 days a week, proper form everything. Been seeing improvements, but if my muscle mass should be growing so should my weight... I was 160 when I started now I'm 170 2 months later. I eat 3 meals a day. Eggs, Beans, Sandwiches, Occasional fast food place,Chicken, Vegetables, Meats, Etc, Whey protein breakfast and lunch. I was thinking of taking a mass gainer, but are there any snacks that are easy to make/eat in between meals? I'm trying to be 190 at 5'10. I have a fast metabolism.

Hey man, Im 6 ft 6 and weigh 240 pounds. Im at a very sporting university and am big into rowing, training around 10 times a week (including on the water, on the rowing machine, yoga, weights). Around a month ago i only weighed 220 pounds. My coach put me on a diet program which was a fast way of bulking up without the use of hard gainer supplements. Its also known as GOMAD (Gallon Of Milk A Day), and there are plenty of articles online you can read up about on this topic. All you do is drink a Gallon of Whole milk throughout the course of a day, as well as trying to eat every 3 hours. Ive done it for a month and stopped now, and put on approx 20 pounds. The average weight gain from what ive heard and seen personally is around 10kg (22pounds) a month if done properly, and works for all body types of people. Obviously during this month still go to the gym and do lots of compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench press, bent over rows etc, that work multiple muscle groups.
Will be good to hear of your progress if you give this a try.

Zeus

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I will definitely try that out. How bout snacks, like do you eat cliff bars in between? Just something easy that I can eat that I don't have to prepare.

yeah, snack bars are good. My preference is peanut butter and jam sanwich nice and easy to make, and tastes nice

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Everyone says that but I fucking hate peanut butter. To me it smells and tastes like shit. I don't like any peanuts or nuts in general except for pistachios.

Tuna sandwich is always good aswell. Also eat lots of fruit and veg to get your vitamins you need to grow. Eat pistachio nuts then, they are always good. Granola, brown bread, cheese, flax. All this stuff is good

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Thank you

I was 160 6 months ago and now I'm about 190. I take whey protein, weight gainer, creatine, and work out 4-5 days a week. The secret is, it's all about calories. There is no "right" food. It's all about a high caloric intake.

I honestly attribute my weight gain to a little secret I learned from Hollywood actors who need to gain massive amounts of weight for movie roles. Melted icecream and olive oil. I only put about a tablespoon of olive oil in it, so you don't even taste it once it's all melted and stirred. I eat about a third of a container of icecream, which is basically a heaping cereal bowl full. When it melts down it looks like much less. I usually slurp it up like soup and don't wait for it to fully melt and warm up.

I typically eat it in the afternoon between lunch and dinner. The key is to not let it effect your ability to eat your next meal. Since it's liquid, it passes through pretty quick and doesn't fill you up. But it is icecream, so be prepared to shit your brains out about an hour after eating it, especially if you are already consuming a lot of food throughout the day.

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Weight gainers are pretty key as well. Most have 1000+ calories. Usually require 4 scoops which makes the shake THICK so you can break it down into 2 shakes twice a day. 1000 calories right there. Hell, do 2 scoops 3x a day to get even more calories. It's pricey but you'll definatly see some result.

You might become bloated and get some fat on ya. Healthy diet + a cut regime after should do wonders. It's winter right now so perfect time to bulk up.

This is true, and I have used weight gainers in the past and dont get me wrong - they work. The only thing i dont like about them is the price. the price of one gallon of whole milk here in the UK is £1.80ish, and it contains around 2500 calories, loads of protein and carbs! Basically the perfect weight gainer and cheap compared to the market supplements.

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Also bro with your eating you should be looking to eat about 7 slightly smaller meals in a day with higher carbs and higher Kcal's not to say eat a Kebab everynight but try and still eat good lean meats (especially white meats) but eat it with some boiled potatoes or Jacket potatoes, 4 slices of wholemeal bread a day and a shit load of water, I know it sucks but to gain weight the secret is to eat more, i've seen guys who say they eat as much as they can and see no difference my only answer is "eat more dude" it's shit but you will soon get used to it, train big muscle groups and look into good "supersets" and "Giantsets" there is a great guy on youtube who covers alot of muscle gaining stuff and routines that don't take a lot of time in the gym either if you search "six pack shortcuts" it's a guy called Mike Chang and he knows what he's on about, you don't need to buy his DVD he has enough free content on there for you to use and move in your own things once you're more educated, you have the whole internet at your fingertips, it's all worth a try until you find what's right for you

Hope this helps my dude
Cirala

once you are adapted to training, the rate of developement naturally is only about 0.5 lbs of dry muscle per week optimum assuming you have good levels of T and are not near your natural threashold or overtraining, if you're gaining more then that, a fair bit of your gains could be fat/glycogen/water, that is also considering you are training for hypertrophy in the gym and have your diet on point, this matters because putting on too much weight too fast if you are training purely for aesthetic purposes will increase the amount of time you will have to spend cutting later since your bulk was not as lean

there's a few ways you can approach a bulk, diet wise really depends on if you know your body comp and BMR

if you know your body comp and BMR, then go for around 300 calories above maintenance daily
or if you don't know your body comp and BMR, then go 18x body weight in KG(2.2lbs) for your daily caloric intake, pick a day of the week (only one), to measure your weight before eating that day, weigh yourself 3 weeks in a row and write your weight down, after 3 weeks if weight gain or loss is constant, keep in check how much you are gaining, if more then a lb a week, or always a lb a week, cut back on the calories, if you are consistently loosing weight instead of gaining, increase calories, make sure you let the weeks show you a trend, as water weight fluxuates between 5-10lbs depending on carb intake

macros
1-1.5g protein per lb of LBM
0.4-1g fat per lb of LBM
fill in the rest of your caloric needs with carbohydrates

to calculate your macro caloric values

protein 1g = 4 calories
carb 1g = 4 calories
fat 1g = 9 calories

when lifting to increase mass, lift to 80% of 1RM

try to get good quality whole foods, most of your proteins from meats, nice starchy carbs before and after workouts (some choco milk with a scoop of whey directly after lifting is a pretty decent post workout supplement also), complex carbs when snacking and good healthy fats