nickjw2137

If it's really all about the amount of calories then I'll gladly substitute oatmeal in the morning with cereal instead haha, I was told oatmeal is better to eat if your trying to gain muscle but I much rather eat a big bowl of lucky charms.

Hey guys, so up to this point I still haven't gotten into the habit of eating enough to put on muscle mostly just because I have not really had the money to be eating 5000 calories a day (I am a college student). But I've got some extra money now and I'm trying to plan out what I'll eat everyday so I have a routine to stick to and make sure I am eating enough everyday. Im going for as cheap and healthy as possible. I was thinking something like this: Breakfast: 2 cups of oatmeal with brown sugar and a scoop of whey protein and two cups of milk: 1050 calories Snack: A banana and a cup of almonds: 700 calories Lunch: three cups of chicken, two cups of rice, a cup of black beans and two cups of milk: 1520 calories snack: shake with a banana, two cups of milk, a cup of strawberries, a cup of yogurt, and half a cup of vanilla ice cream: 750 Dinner: three eggs with a baked potato, two slices of toast with jelly, a cup of corn, and two glasses of milk: 1000 = about 5,020 calories. Id probably switch it up a little and maybe have spaghetti for dinner or something sometimes, but I just wanted to know what you guys think of this, if you guys have suggestions of other foods that are high in calories that would be great, I think this diet is gonna get pretty old but I couldnt think of other good foods to eat that are high in calories.

yeah ive been working out for over a year now, so I guess i gotta go with eating more. THank you

Alright thank you. If I was to work out consistently and do bench presses, pull ups, rows, and deadlifts but only eat my regular 2000 calories, would i get stronger but not bigger or will not eating alot make it hard to get any stronger

Thanks man, what would you recommend as a proper diet? I know thats super important but Its extremely hard for me to consistently eat 4000-5000 thousand calories a day because of time, money, and just it being hard to eat that much. Is there any thing that will slow down my metabolism?

Hey guys i need some help and advice for getting better looking and stronger abs. I know most people say the key to getting abs is to lose weight and have a low body fat percentage, but I am already really skinny. My problem isnt that i have fat covering my abs it is just that i dont have much muscle. Im skinny so they still show a little but i want to get them to be stronger and show more. Ive doing various types of crunches, planks, and leg lifts but what else can I do to make more progress?

Hey guys over the last few months i have been trying to eat as much food and protein as possible. I have gained a few pounds but my parents will only buy so much food and its sometimes hard to eat enough. Because if this i decided to try some protein and supplements so i bought some micronized creatine and 100 percent gold standard whey protein, just wondering if this is something you guys recommend and how much i should take of each everyday. I think ill just mix the creatine in with the whey protein shake when i drink it. I know the protein cant be a replacement to a good diet but i figured it wouldnt hurt in addition to my diet.

Alright thanks forthe help guys, Its just I have been doing overhead press, bench pres, barbell rows and pullups for at least a couple months and i have only seen slight improvemtent in my bench, I havent been dding weight to my overhead press and barbell rows because i have been barely getting in all the reps with the weight i am using now. So i thought maybe i needed to add more exercises to my routine, and why is it bad to do isolation exercising if you do them at the end of your workout after your compund lifts? I will have to start focusing on my diet more too because i definitey dont eat enough to gain alot of weight.

Hey guys, I have been working out for a few months because i was super skinny and wanted get stronger and gain muscle. I have been doing the 5x5 stronglifts workout but i have only been doing the bench press, overhead press, and barbell rows, and added in pullups. I havent been doing squats because i dont have a squat rack and havent done deadlifts because i havent learned to do them with good form yet. I saw progress at first but now I am plateauing and have not much progress lately. I decided to get a gym membership so I could do squats and have a spotter and have more equipment. The concept of doing compound exercises instead of isolation exercises makes sense but i have not been making much progress with the stronglifts program lately and all my friends that go to the gym say that i need to do workout a different muscle group each time, like doing back and bis, chest and tris, and then legs. I definitely think i need to add something to the 5x5 workout i have been doing because i havent been making progress with it but im not sure what to add, I am still very skinny and only have about 3 percent body fat and I am about 5'8 at 120 pounds and 18 years old. I really just want to add alot of muscle and get stronger, I also have been hearing that a big reason i havent been making progress is because of my diet and that I need to eat more and eat alot of protein so I am going to start trying to do that too, but here is what I am thinking might be a good routine, let me know what you think, thanks. Day 1: Squats 5x5 Bench Press: 5x5 Barbell Rows: 5x5 Dumbell Press: 3x 8 Incline dumbell Press: 3x8 Decline Bench Press: 3x10 Flys: 3x8 Incline flys: 3x8 Tricep Press: 3x10 Dips: 3x10 Planks, russian twists, bicycle crunches Day 2: Squats: 5x5 Overhead Press: 5x5 Deadlift: 1x5 Barbell Rows: 5x5 Dumbell Rows: 3x10 Weighted Pullups: 5x5 Bicep curls: 3x10 Barbell bicep curls: 3x10 Alternating Deltoid Raise: 3x10 Shoulder shrugs: 3x10 I would just alternate between these two workouts and take a day of rest. This is just my uneducated idea, i really just want to do whatever it takes to gain alot of muscle, so please make any recomendations.

Yeah I was talking about dead lifting, I'm pretty sure my problem is flexibility, I have really bad flexibility and range of motion. Thanks, i just do the isolation workouts at the end of my compound workouts so that the compound workouts aren't being affected.

Thank you, I am also going to start doing more of the stretches on mobility wod. I dont understand why it is bad to do isolation exercises in addition to full body exercises though. If I do squats, deadlifts, pullups, and rows and then bicep curls at the end, it cant do any harm right?

well I only weigh 115 pounds so pull ups aren't super hard for me. Also, i tried dead lifting and found out that I have terrible flexibility in my back. I could not keep my back straight, it kept curving.

Thanks man, does it matter if i do dumbbell bench press or barbell bench press? I was doing dumbbell because my left is stronger than my right and i wanted to even them out. Also, is there any reason to not do a few isolation in addiion to these exercises such as bicep curls, as long as i do them after everything else? And should i do all these exercises on the same day?

I am working on my flexibility but it is a very slow process and I have not made very much progress yet. Thanks for the advice, are there any more exercises besides those three that I should focus on?

I started working out a few months ago because I am really skinny and pretty weak. My goal in workoing out is to get a lot stronger in pretty much every muscle group, and to gain weight. I started out just doing pushups and slowly added more. Right now I am doing dumbbell bicep curls, barbell bicep curls,hammer curls, and pullups for my biceps. I am doing planks, leg raises, russian twists, and crunches for my abs. Tricep kickbacks and skull crushers for my triceps. And dumbbell bench press, incline dumbbell bench press, barbell bench press, flys, incline flys, and push ups for my chest. I read on this forum that beginners should not be doing isolation exercises such as bicep curls. They said it was a waste of time and beginners are better off doing deadlifts, squats etc. I am doing a lot of isolation exercises right now and am wondering if it would be more beneficial to quit the isolation workouts and do more full body workouts. I just work out at my house and all i have is dumbbells and a bench press, so I dont think i can do squats, and i cant do squats anyway because I am not flexible enough yet. So what could I do that would benefit the most, should i just keep on doing what i am doing, or should i only focus on exercises like deadlifts, bench press and pull ups?