Opinion On Your Body Weight

I put on 30 lbs on muscle in a single year, and I am far from an "advanced lifter." It has more to do with diet than with lifting, and those who believe you have to spend massive amounts of time in the gym are wrong. In fact, too much time in the gym is counterproductive, since your muscles need time to heal. Too much lifting also creates cortisol spikes, and cortisol is detrimental to muscle. It also leads to fat gain. If you eat right and allow your body enough time to recover, you can spend a fraction of the time in the gym that some people do and have twice the results. Most people, when it comes to building muscle, rely too heavily on broscience vs. what has been scientifically proven to work. There is more to building muscle than simply "training hard." Adequate time to heal is every bit as important as time spent in the gym.

 

you did not put on 30 pounds of muscle in a year lmao

 

So let's see... in November of 2012 I was around 140-145 lbs. Now I am around 170, and in that time I have actually went from a size 32 waist to a size 31 waist.

 

In Tim Ferriss' book, The 4-Hour Body, he talks about how you can gain 34 lbs of muscle in 4 weeks with minimal time spent in the gym. It sounds hard to believe, but the book shows actual documented cases where this has been done. I won't say I am not skeptical still, but the book has some interesting information nevertheless.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blo...eak-how-i-gained-34-lbs-of-muscle-in-4-weeks/

 

i just got done looking this up. is this for real, or some sort of scam

 

Do you even need to ask? It's a scam.

anyone who actually knows anything about lifting weights knows that anyone besides a teenager cant put on 30 pounds of actual MUSCLE weight in a year. You can put on weight though, yes

 

6'2 or so...somewhere between 290-300lbs
most people think i'm somewhere around 240lbs

i feel perfectly fine and healthy and see no reason to purposely lose a lot of weight

 

i would say im around 5'11" and i weight 138. im a skinny stoner

 

That's interesting but not really groundbreaking in my circle of friends. I don't think I agree with how he worded a couple of points but overall....it's legit and covers some things I do quite often.

Edit to say...I'm not vouching for his muscle gain claims. I'm only saying that those are some good things to do.

 

People put on that much weight in LESS than a year all the time, but if you are are looking at it from solely a weight lifting approach, perhaps there is the problem with why you see it as not being feasible.

And Tim Ferriss gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks (not a year).

 

I was 245lbs about 1.5 years ago, and was down to about 205 last summer. I'm now around 215. A healthy weight for someone of my height and build is probably somewhere around 200 lbs. Once the snow melts and I start biking again, I should be back around there.

 

arent you really tall eggsprog? like 6'5 or something??

 

tim ferris didn't gain 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks...ridiculous.

he regained some muscle he lost and manipulated by hydrating to gain lean mass...

lean mass =/= lean muscle

 

I'm about 6'1.


And Tim Ferris is kind of sketchy. He writes these books about being super productive and talks about how he always has so much energy because of his lifestyle... but then fails to mention that he uses Provigil. Same with that Dave Asprey dude.

 

I agree. There are lots of hokey things about most of those guys I don't agree with.

 

Such as? Gaining 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks?

 

Well a year or so ago I posted how I had lost about 60lbs, went from ~275 down to around 215. I then gained a bit of it back and got up to about 235 lbs.
I'm 5'11".

Then about 8 weeks ago after yet another 2 hour + round of bowel movements, the wife reminded me that my dad has celiac disease and that I seemed to be having some symptoms.
So I cut out all wheat and gluten cold turkey and within two days the difference was so dramatic that I haven't looked at another doughnut or loaf of bread without viewing it as poison.
Since doing that not only do I enjoy regular, normal poops, I generally feel better and the extra lbs have been just melting off.
I'm now down to around 210 and have lost over 6 inches in my waist size overall, at my most rotund I was sporting a size 44 waist, now I'm down to a size 36, and have to go buy new clothes.


and one big milestone was being able to look down and see my dick without using a mirror, which I think should be a goal for any overweight man. :2thumbsup:

 

You should probably get yourself tested for celiac, because if you have it, you need to be really strict about avoiding gluten because it can cause some really serious damage. If you don't have it but are just sensitive to gluten, then you can get away with it once in a while.

 

Yeah, that's the next step, getting tested. The wife found a study being done where they will give you all the tests and help with diet and pay you for it, gonna check that out.

I'm pretty sure that's what it is, my dad has it and I think others on his side may as well, plus the fact that my "issues" slowly progressed over the course of a year or so with many symptoms of celiac manifesting and now my guts definitely do not work the same as they used to.
So I need to determine how much/what damage has been done, and from what I have seen, it's permanent damage.

 

Happily donuts suck anyway