Is it possible for me to have Gained 5lbs of Muscle in 5 days?

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Frologic

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Now take this with a grain of salt, I suppose. I weighed myself this afternoon, just b/c I was thinking about it. The last time I weighed myself was last . . . friday, and I was 5 lbs lighter. Now I'm just coming off the tail end of 2 rest days, and I could see the muscle growth, in my chest, and my legs, and my arms, but to be exactly 5 lbs heavier?? :confused: That's seems a bit too much.

Is it possible? Or are there things I'm not accounting for. And I don't think the scale is broken, its brand new.
 
No......

1lb of muscle and 4lb's of water. Maybe ( still unlikely ).
 
HA. I knew something was up. Now that I think of it, the times were different. One was post workout shower, the other time was two meals later.
 
Frologic said:
Now take this with a grain of salt, I suppose. I weighed myself this afternoon, just b/c I was thinking about it. The last time I weighed myself was last . . . friday, and I was 5 lbs lighter. Now I'm just coming off the tail end of 2 rest days, and I could see the muscle growth, in my chest, and my legs, and my arms, but to be exactly 5 lbs heavier?? :confused: That's seems a bit too much.

Is it possible? Or are there things I'm not accounting for. And I don't think the scale is broken, its brand new.
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It is "normal" to flex a few pounds during the day:

Think about it?

For example, when you first get up, after fasting for about 8+ hours (normally), and havent consumed any water or food, the body can "tend" to be at its "lightest" weight point of the day.

Now, you get up consume water (or other liquids) and food (all adding weight to the body--at the time consumed (in stomach, no?).

Additionally it is possible in the AM when you wake up, that you could be holding some "feces" in the colon, from food in recent past (which also adds weight, no?, or it may be empty dependant on when you last had a bowl movement-which would make you lighter).

As you continue to consume liquids and food, the biological process of the body is at work--distributing the nutrients (etc) to where its needed, and this tends to add weight as time passes during the day. And, is "normal".

Weigh yourself with the same cloths (or none at all, or simular type clothing) at the same time each day--prefereably in the morning when you first get up.

Save confusion, and do not weigh yourself multiple times.

Same time each day, preferrably when you first get up.


Chillen
 
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Chillen said:
It is "normal" to flex a few pounds during the day:
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I think the term you're looking for is ' fluctuate ' instead of flex - as in, ' one's weight can fluctuate by a few pounds during the day '.

However, it is appropriate to say, for example, that you can ' flex ' ( contract ) muscle.
 
Wrangell said:
I think the term you're looking for is ' fluctuate ' instead of flex - as in, ' one's weight can fluctuate by a few pounds during the day '.

However, it is appropriate to say, for example, that you can ' flex ' ( contract ) muscle.
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Thanks Grammar Fairy.:rolleyes:
 
Wrangell said:
I think the term you're looking for is ' fluctuate ' instead of flex - as in, ' one's weight can fluctuate by a few pounds during the day '.

However, it is appropriate to say, for example, that you can ' flex ' ( contract ) muscle.
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lol, Wrangell must have so much fun writing those posts like that. Trying to be so proper, etc.

"Chillen, it is not scientifically possible to say, flex a few pounds per day. I believe the term you were looking for is fluctuate, which is another term for varies.

For example, my weight fluctuates by about 5 pounds per day depending on the time of day (for example, morning or night)"

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Streamline said:
Picture 5 pounds of raw lean meat layed on your bench at home...That's 5 pounds of muscle...impossible to do in 5 days.
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Well, that's the equivelent to the weight in-between my V, when I lay on the bench to perform the bench press. I dont count that in my mere 161lb 5' 7" frame. And, no its not possible to gain 5 lbs on that slab of beef.


Chillen
 
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