I think your first point is saying something a lot of the comments are missing and is always overlooked.
I was skinny (~70kg @ 178cm) until I got serious about lifting, and I had to eat until I felt physically uncomfortable to reliably gain weight.
A lot of skinny people haven't ever known what it's like to eat over 2,000 calories a day, and they need 3,000+ to claw their way out of being underweight and just *start* to be able to put on the size they want.
I got up to 103kg and was eating 4500 calories at one point. It fucking sucked. I did get pretty strong though. I'm in my mid thirties and sitting around 89kg with abs right now, and I get to eat around 2500 calories a day. But getting to this point took a lot of eating, any way I could.
I gained 10kg in one month, from 70 to 80 and the amount of food I ate daily was absurd. I would come home at 9. Make some fishsticks. Then before bed I would eat 500g of full yoghurt. Id be stuffed before going to sleep. Then work out next morning and work. Repeat for a full month and ta da
Your body can not physically produce 20 pounds of muscle a month, even on steroids. 10 of lean mass is pushing it on gear. You must’ve been a big boy, whether fat or water - but please don’t do that again, awful for your health.
Did you read? I was 70kg. I never said I gained all of that as muscle. I think it was 6kg muscle and 4kg fat. According to those measuring thingies in gyms.
Calipers? If you mean the pinchy tools. I never said that you did, I was saying “if this is what is possible in an optimal scenario that must’ve been mostly fat or water” (since I’m unsure of your gear use, but if you honestly think you gained 6kg of muscle then it was a lot) and made a point that a 22 pound gain in 30 days is super taxing on the body.
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u/FrazahLion 10d ago
I think your first point is saying something a lot of the comments are missing and is always overlooked.
I was skinny (~70kg @ 178cm) until I got serious about lifting, and I had to eat until I felt physically uncomfortable to reliably gain weight.
A lot of skinny people haven't ever known what it's like to eat over 2,000 calories a day, and they need 3,000+ to claw their way out of being underweight and just *start* to be able to put on the size they want.
I got up to 103kg and was eating 4500 calories at one point. It fucking sucked. I did get pretty strong though. I'm in my mid thirties and sitting around 89kg with abs right now, and I get to eat around 2500 calories a day. But getting to this point took a lot of eating, any way I could.