Sport eating what gives you what? please answer:P

Karky · Mar 20, 2006

Ok, so im a bit confused with this whole eating thing.
ive heard that eating more calories than you use will build muscle..
but ive also heard that it will make you fat, or is that only if you dont weight train?
also, what about the fats you eat? suggar? would really like a reply.

mike79 · Mar 21, 2006

well, if u start pounding down twinkies and burger king all day, you could work out as much as you want and still get fat. U gain weight obviously by consuming more calories than you burn off in the course of ur days. You wanna eat low fat , high protein foods, ( tuna, chicken, lean meats, fish, protein bars\shakes, egg whites , etc). You wanna eat enough of that sort of thing, in order to gain no more than 7 -8 pounds a month. Any more weight than that, and your most likely putting on more fat , than lean muscle mass. But you cant expect to gain 20 pounds of muscle with out putting on any fat. But, its easier to shave off 5 pounds of fat, than it is to build 20 pounds of muscle.
Also, just eating right wont make you build muscle, you gotta be hitting those weights.
Just all depends on your goals. If you wanna lose weight, get a nice lean diet of high protein , low fat foods, and do a lil cardio, the pounds should fly off. But, if you wanna bulk up, you gotta eat enough food to make you gain weight, and you gotta be sculpting that weight by working out.
My advice, for either, is first you must count how many calories you eat in a given day. Then, if you wanna gain weight add about 400 calories a day, if you wanna loose weight , you wanna decrese by 400 a day. Either way, no more then 1-2 lbs gains a week, or vice versa. Hope some of my rambling helped

Karky · Mar 21, 2006

yeah i was just wondering about the eating thing as i was a bit confused. so u gotta eat alot of carbs, but not too much? and if u eat alot of carbs without hitting the weights it wont build muscle since theres no "need" for it, so it just stores as fat?

Biggie · Mar 21, 2006

This is true. If you have no exercise at all but eat more calories than you expend you will gain fat. If you work out and eat more calories than you expend, you will gain muscle. You have to have some fat in your diet, it's essential. But you want good fats, like from nuts and other healthy foods. As for sugar i don't really know much about what it does for ya.

Smoke420 · Mar 22, 2006

I'm gonna have to disagree with something mike79 said. He said something along the lines of if you hit the weights and eat right you should expect to gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week. This is impossible unless your on steroids. According to mens health, the average male that does a "bulking phase" is lucky to gain 10 pounds of solid muscle in a year. And I've found that to be true. I started lifting 4 years ago, and I've put on about 30lbs of solid muscle. Building muscle is a slow process and takes time and patience, and hard work, both physically and mentally

mike79 · Mar 22, 2006

Scoper50 said:
I'm gonna have to disagree with something mike79 said. He said something along the lines of if you hit the weights and eat right you should expect to gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week. This is impossible unless your on steroids. According to mens health, the average male that does a "bulking phase" is lucky to gain 10 pounds of solid muscle in a year. And I've found that to be true. I started lifting 4 years ago, and I've put on about 30lbs of solid muscle. Building muscle is a slow process and takes time and patience, and hard work, both physically and mentally

ahh , not 1-2 pounds of muscle.... I said weight, I wish you could put on 2 pounds of muscle a week, not even dbol can keep that pace

thats why I said if you put on 20 pounds, a portion of that would be fat. But its easy to trim that fat off, instead of trying to gain just lean mass, hence the bulk/cut

Karky · Mar 23, 2006

hmm.. i want to find out how much ive gained since i started working out about 2 months ago, its pretty much actually, so then some of it probobly is that.. but i havent noticed me getting any more jiggily

but ive always been skinny

evolution · Mar 23, 2006

If you ate 500 more calories daily than maintenence level, you would gain 1 pound at the end of the week. If you ate 1000 more calories daily, you would gain 2 pounds at the end of the week. It's not rocket science or advanced physiology guys...it's a matter of simply adding calories. Anything above the 1-2 pound a week gain is assuredly mostly fat. If one was to stay in the 1 pound of weight gain weekly, I'd put my money that 3/4 or of that weight is muscle.

Also, if you're gonna bulk, you have to be ready to put on some fat. I mean, how many chicken breasts and heads of broccoli can you really eat, stay sane, and get in 5-6000 calories a day?

Men's Health magazine has some good info, but let's get real; to say you only gain 10 pds a year is stupid.

Karky, don't make it complicated. If you want to gain muscle, you gotta eat and put on a bit of fat. Eat more than you burn=gain weight/muscle. Eat less and you lose.