[IRONGAME]

Hello all:

Without boring all of you in too much detail, I am a newbie that is struggling to add mass with my current diet. I have educated myself fairly well on both the training and diet aspects of bodybuilding and for the most part, have been following a clean diet. Since my workouts seem to be strong, I believe the problem must obviously lie within my diet. I have been following this diet (posted below) for about a month now, and I don't seem to be seeing much success or progess in the way of muscle mass gains, only slight bodyfat increases it seems. How is that possible? Please critique my meal plan so that I may figure what I'm doing incorrectly. Thank you to all in advance.

Basic Stats: 6'0/188 pds.

Diet Breakdown:

Total Daily Calories- 2800-3000
Protien: 220-240g
Carbs-300g
Fats: 70g

Meal Plan:

M1- 4 eggs (eggbeaters)
1/2-3/4 cup oatmeal
1 slice ww bread
1 scoop whey
1 tbsp flax

M2- 4 scoops Nlarge/Water

M3- 1-2 chicken Breast(s)
40 grams wheat pasta
1 tbsp flax
Veggie

M4- 3 scoops Nlarge/Water

M5- NPB sandwich on ww bread
2 scoops whey

M6- Chicken, Turkey, or Lean Pork
1 cup rice
Veggie

M7- 2 scoops whey or cottage ch w light yogart
1 tbsp flax

[Garry_8472]

You need to get more protein more carbs and more calories. For your weight you need at least:

282 gms protein/day
376 gms carbs/day

You also need to add about 1000 calories a day to your diet.

THis should help but the biggest mistake newbies make is over training this will hold you back more than anything else. If you think this could be a problem post your routine and we'll take a look.

[Benji]

Bump for garry, defo need more calories!

I personally find, monitoring weight can be a bit dis-heartening if its coming on slowly, try monitoring your lifts and concentrating on lifting more each workout for a while, theres no way you can't be adding muscle if all your lifts are increasing! Keep measuring your weight tho! It'll soon come on! Just eat more!

[Benji]

Bump for garry, defo need more calories!

I personally find, monitoring weight can be a bit dis-heartening if its coming on slowly, try monitoring your lifts and concentrating on lifting more each workout for a while, theres no way you can't be adding muscle if all your lifts are increasing! Keep measuring your weight tho! It'll soon come on! Just eat more!

[Benji]

Sorry, didnt mean to post it twice! Stupid S L O W internet

[Anonymous]

dont worry about gaining a little fat, this can be taking off later

[Garry_8472]

I don't understand all these newbies most of them late teens early twenties and there worrying about fat levels most of you guys are training because you feel you are too skinny. You probably have fast metabolisms and are farily active and training is only going to burn off more calories.

When I had been training about a year there was this guy worked on the door in town to me then he was absolutely massive and one night I asked for his advice on getting bigger. He gave me alot of tips but the best one was "if it's not nailed down eat it" it was the best advice I ever got.

You look at the pictures in the mags and think thats how bodybuilders look but its not the real world. These guy's usually have the photo shoots just before or after contests, They don't have such low fat levels all year its just not healthy and you could not train hard or make gains with such low fat levels.

You will get where you want to be alot faster if you forget about percentage bodyfat and eat for bulk. As we keep saying you can loose the fat after you've built the muscle.

[Benji]

BUMP

Well said garry!