Hey, I'm a skinny guy, to gain weight, I have to EAT ALL DAY LONG... you cannot skip even one meal a day out of 8 or so... prepare food in the morning, take it to work and set times you will force yourself to eat it. Lots of oatmeal, ground turkey, chicken, PBJ sandwiches, boiled eggs etc.

Supplements will give are about 10% of the equation, food is the other 90%.... if you feel you need supplements keep it simple with something like ON's Serious Mass (muscle milk etc will not get you huge, you are rail thin you need carbs and calories). For creatine, I just stick to BSN's NOxplode preworkout and Cellmass post workout, you'll get the argenine, creatine etc all there.

Basically dude, EAT.. try varying when you workout, I find that if I go in the morning, I end up eating a lot more throughout the day (it forces me to eat a lot in the morning where I normally am not as hungry and forget).

 

You wont need creatine unless you're doing heavy weight training at least 3-4 days per week. Creatine only assists recovery and will not aid in gaining weight.

As you get older you might just wanna get on the HRT if you want to keep up the muscle gains Go see your doc and get a hormone check and if you need a boost they'll hook you up legit

 

I have nothing against hormones, I just figured I'd wait till at least my thirties to mess with that. I'm only 24 and don't want to worry about side effects down the road...

 

Mate if you're only 24 you won't need HRT for a long time.

 

how about trying to eat more supplements are just that supplements for stuff you cant get daily

try eat 2 whole eggs and 4 egg white with soe oatmeal in the morning

then a protein shake or a snack a couple hours later

then chicken and veggies and complex carbs at lunch

another snack

chicken or beef or fish with veggies out the ass for dinner

-peanut butter is your friend 180cals per tbsp
-eggs, chicken, and tuna are fairly cheap and packed with protein
-if you eat beef make sures its lean beef


im assuming y0uo want lbm not fat weight

 

yup. I"m on a very similar plan. Haven't taken any supplements yet, but will as my work out routine gets harder. I'm only exercising with the few weights I have at home, and have been eating as you described. I've gained 4 lb. in the first week. I know, I know. weight fluctuates...feels great though.

my goals is 20 lb's of lean body mass by next summer. I've done better before, so if I stick to routine, it shouldn't be a problem.

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while were on the topic of working out. I'm in desperate need of lower body mass. lol. do most of you get better results with heavier weight and less reps or lighter weight and more reps when it comes to legs (squats...)?

 

im cutting right now i dirty bulked up to 202 basically just ate anythign in sight while trying to put muscle on which i did now im trying to cut back down to 175 and get down to be 12-13%bf

in 8 weeks i dropped from 202 and 24.9%bf to 183 at 18.7%bf another month or so and i should be at my goal

btw thats with 0 supplements only the occasional protein shake when i dont have time to eat

 

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I'm trying to add mass at the moment and this is what I'm eating daily. I weigh around 170lbs at 5'10 and I'm probably around 15% (realistic figure unlike most people who underestimate)

Meals are:

630am 2 eggs + 4 egg whites plus protein shake with milk and a scoop of coffee
930am 5 weet bix covered in 250g of low fat cottage cheese then a banana and add milk
1pm about half of that tuna and rice
3pm the rest of that tuna and rice
530pm ~5 minutes skipping to warm up then weight train while sipping powerade
630 tip remainder of powerade into protein then shake and bake
730 dinner which is the only thing that I vary. Usually something like a scotch fillet untrimmed (my vice) with lots of green veges (beans and brocolli) plus about 1 baked potato and equal serve of sweet potato.

Sleep from 930-6ish rinse and repeat. I walk around a bit at work but not a lot. Once I get my weekends looking something like this I'll be cooking but till then I'm kind of spinning my wheels a little.

 

nice diet!!! But ditch that powerade, it has the same amount of high frutose cornsyrup as soda. Stay on that diet and you should get some good gains!