How to bulk up? The healthy and normal way? (1 Viewer)

[Chuck C]

If you lift weights making sure to vary exercises per week, vary rep amounts (less reps for low stimulus muscles-the big muscles- and more reps for the high stimulus 'tone' muscles), and take in about 50g of protein and 3,000+ calories from complex carbo, grains, etc sources, then you should gain 7 lbs. of muscle a year.

It's a very gradual process and can take the normal non-genetic freak 10-15 years to accomplish hugeness.

 

[Jason Kirkpatri]

Back in the mid-ninties, FLEX Magazine ran a series of articles called H.U.G.E. It's focus was entirely on the subject of this thread; getting HUGE fast and without drugs. Many professional body builders wrote articles for the series, including 5 time Mr. Olympia winner, Dorian Yates.

The gist of the series:

- Circuit train for the first few months (this allows the body to adapt to the stress and as mentioned earlier, gives your tendons time to adapt to the stress loads).

- Start with heavy, compound excersices. Basic movements (squats, bench presses, etc) with heavy weights, three sets of 6-10 reps).

- Cardio is not an activity you want to participate in heavliy if you're focused on gaining mass.

I recommend that you check out those "muscle-head" magazines and websites for more information. True, professional body builders have the stereotype of being drug users, but not all are and they still have incredible mass.

Big Lou (Incredible Hulk TV series) was 6'5" and 300lbs plus. I'm 6'5" and 230lbs. If he can do it, so can I. Your body type is the same as mine; hard to gain mass. But not impossible.

Read everything you can. Be intense, consistent, and dedicated. The day on day off cylces are sound, and your time investment is not that much. One hour a day is all you need so long as your INTENSE, FOCUSSED, and DEDICATED.

It's amazing how we can make time for the two hour movies but fitness falls off the table.

Stay with it. If you can make the time, pretty soon you'll notice that you look forward to your workouts and they become such an integrated part of your life, that you'll wonder why you didn't start sooner. I know I did.

Good luck.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

If u do cardio do it on days your not lifting weights

I usually run on the treadmill for fifteen minutes before lifting. Is that bad?

 

[Gregg Shiu]

I usually run on the treadmill for fifteen minutes before lifting. Is that bad?

Not really, if you run after lifting, that's maximizing your fat loss though.