Gym thread.

[PaulMacC]

someone sticky this.

I need to know how to eat more, I'm eating 2500cal a day but I wanna bump it up to 3000cal. My metabolism is sky high and really without eating that much I cant get serious gains but I feel so full. Any tips.

[Wig44.]

Calorie dense foods. Whole milk with meals. While fat is filling (more so than carbohydrates) stop removing it from your food. Cut out calorie sparse, filling foods, like vegetables (not like they are doing you any good) and high fibre foods like bran which just damages your gut.

If you think you need vegetables, the vitamins and minerals are not very bioavailable at all, and the antioxidants in them are likely shortening your lifespan: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350594

Eat eggs everyday to replace micronutrients you may have lost (not many to be honest) by dropping veg. 2500 calories really isn't much. Since you are obviously not going to be eating this way for a huge period of time you shouldn't worry about eating some junk. Example: white bread is 100 calories a slice (medium thickness) add butter and peanut butter, make sandwiches and a pint or two of whole milk to drink and you can be somewhere around 800-1000 calories from that alone. Beef and lamb mince are good. I can easily get 1000 calories from beef or lamb mince alone, and I can add a further several hundred calories in pasta or spaghetti, can have eggs too which adds more. I'll think of some better examples when my brain is working properly (e.g not 2 am).

[PaulMacC]

Calorie dense foods. Whole milk with meals. While fat is filling (more so than carbohydrates) stop removing it from your food. Cut out calorie sparse, filling foods, like vegetables (not like they are doing you any good) and high fibre foods like bran which just damages your gut.

If you think you need vegetables, the vitamins and minerals are not very bioavailable at all, and the antioxidants in them are likely shortening your lifespan: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350594

Eat eggs everyday to replace micronutrients you may have lost (not many to be honest) by dropping veg. 2500 calories really isn't much. Since you are obviously not going to be eating this way for a huge period of time you shouldn't worry about eating some junk. Example: white bread is 100 calories a slice (medium thickness) add butter and peanut butter, make sandwiches and a pint or two of whole milk to drink and you can be somewhere around 800-1000 calories from that alone. Beef and lamb mince are good. I can easily get 1000 calories from beef or lamb mince alone, and I can add a further several hundred calories in pasta or spaghetti, can have eggs too which adds more. I'll think of some better examples when my brain is working properly (e.g not 2 am).

Alright thank you +rep
To be honest I've been avoiding taking a lot of fat in lately although since my bf% is around 8-9% I really shouldnt worry about it, as long as I eat cleanly enough I shouldnt get fat anyway, right?

[Niall!]

Why do people do this to themeselves, skinny boys are best boys

[PaulMacC]

Why do people do this to themeselves, skinny boys are best boys

shut up and go back to doing your curls, tri-extensions and bench press on the squat rack

[Niall!]

Yeah no. I don't do any of that ****. Don't need a gym to stay in shape, running after college for an hour and doing situps and pressups does me just fine thanks.

[Wig44.]

Alright thank you +rep
To be honest I've been avoiding taking a lot of fat in lately although since my bf% is around 8-9% I really shouldnt worry about it, as long as I eat cleanly enough I shouldnt get fat anyway, right?

Taking in more calories than you burn makes you gain weight. Being in a caloric surplus is a better environment for building muscle than being in a deficit. Eating fat doesn't make you fat. Anyway, someone like you needs a bit more fat on their frame. Most average members of the public who aren't into bodybuilding etc would appreciate a muscular physique with around 10% bodyfat, plus any fat gains now can be sorted out later once you've added the muscle. I guarantee you won't end up worse than you start.

[Zak]

I like the idea of this thread Paul, always like people who 'gym it up'.

As Wig44. said I also use eggs, I have my own chickens so I get three eggs a day which I "try" and eat for breakfast. I also found that a protein shake here and there doesn't go a miss. I've not been working out much recently, been so busy with coursework, plan to work-out tomorrow, in my house. Not pro enough for gym yet

[PaulMacC]

Taking in more calories than you burn makes you gain weight. Being in a caloric surplus is a better environment for building muscle than being in a deficit. Eating fat doesn't make you fat. Anyway, someone like you needs a bit more fat on their frame. Most average members of the public who aren't into bodybuilding etc would appreciate a muscular physique with around 10% bodyfat, plus any fat gains now can be sorted out later once you've added the muscle. I guarantee you won't end up worse than you start.

I know that eating fat doesn't make you fat, it just has a higher calorie count than carbs/protein. Would you recommend ditching semi-skimmed variants of dairy products too?

[Soy]

if you really think your metabolism is abnormal you should get a blood test it leads to loadsa problems like thyroid gland issues and that

just eat and lift dont overcomplicate what your doing

i dont think you get what clean bulking is though
its just a broscience word for eating around 500 cals more than maintenence dirty is like 1k+
clean doesn't mean not eating junk etc
just eat balanced

Why do people do this to themeselves, skinny boys are best boys

lol *REMOVED*

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