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[xxdavidxx]

I'm in what's called a "bulking cycle." Which means I eat a lot of food with high amounts of protein and go to the gym lifting heavy weights 4 times a week. I've come to the conclusion that it's much much harder to eat like this than it is to eat to loose weight. Not only do you eat a lot, you have to eat a lot of healthy/lean/high protein foods

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[disco_rape_]

im guessing your not vegan lol

good luck with that
i have a lot of friends that annoy me with their bulking diets lol

[xxdavidxx]

I just started, I'm not going it hardcore I started about a week ago, I'm going to go 'till maybe early to mid April then start cutting. I just wanna do just enough to add a bit of muscle mass to look good for the summer(yes, I'm being vain). Where do you workout?

[xxdavidxx]

I was doing a stupid routine that had me doing every muscle group 3 times a week, that was too much for heavy lifting. I just started a new routine Monday that I like thus far:

Monday: Legs
Tuesday: Back/shoulder/abs
Wednesday: rest
Thursday: Chest/abs
Friday: Bi/tri/forarm
Sat&Sun: rest

[reticent_me]

omg i love eating. now i'm hungry again...

[xxdavidxx]

depends on what kind of working out your doing. When you're lifiting heavy weights with the goal to bulk up you damage you muscles and your body uses protein to build the damaged cells back larger and stronger, and if you're doing heavy weights it takes a lot more protein to build these cells back and to fill the larger cells. Carbs have nothing to do with muscle, carbs are only used by the body for energy to complete the workout. My diet consists of about 40% carbs and 30% protein 30% fat, once I start cutting the fat that will change.

[xxdavidxx]

I'm not denying what you say is true, but I don't think you're looking at it in the same sense that I am. Different forms of excersise require different needs, endurance requires more cardio, heavy weight lifting requires massive amounts of protein. It's very possible to survive on a small amount of protein, but that's only if you don't care about keeping muscle tone or building muscle tone. To maintain muscle you need at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. To build muscle you need atleast 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight. As I stated before when you lift heavy weights your muscles break down protein faster than anything else, and because the stress you put on your muscles it needs a pretty good amount of protein to help rebuild the muscle cells which results in your muscles growing back larger, harder, and stronger

[todrownher]

Are you trying to go for weight gaining or what? thats a good workout plan you have setup just make sure that you rotate it or your muscles will get use to doing that excersie on that day and they will show no signs of growth. Take it easy man

[xxdavidxx]

yeah, I'm just starting out. I'm gonna go with it like it is now for about a month, that'll have me doing all the exercsises for about a month before I change 'em up to keep from hitting that Plateau