You "can" gain 10 pounds of fat in two weeks if you eat enough, but you will not gain 10 pounds of muscle in two weeks; this is reality.
You don't have do anything to gain 10 pounds of fat, sitting on one's duff will suffice, and your body will happily pack it on for you; however, there is a price to pay to put on lean tissue mass, and how much you "optimize" this potential will depend on what you put into it, educate yourself within diet and fitness, and apply what you have learned to your unique bodily attributes.
Its "simply" not ALL about being in the weight room.
In my opinion, your mental attitude, how you manage your time away from the gym (through educating yourself), and how intensely and smartly you apply yourself in and out of the gym--will determine your results.
Most of your results come through: Preparation, which can bring the correct perspiration, and is inspired through education.
One's personal results, are "largely" determined by what they do "away from the weight room" rather than in the weight room.
And, a lot fail to connect the activity away from the weight room to the importance of the logistics of being in the weight room: As "one".
If one thinks about it. We actually spend very little time in the gym as compared to the hours in a day. For example, if you train for an hour 4 times per week: There is 168 hours in a week, minus the 4 hours. This leaves 164 hours one is not training.
Dependent on what one does with these 164 hours, it can have a HUGE impact on your results.
Growth and/or strength increases occur out of the gym (not in it), and what one does away from the gym or what one doesn't do away from the gym, will have an impact on the sweat you applied in the gym.
For example, if one is on a fat loss quest, they can squander their efforts in the gym---in a matter of "minutes"--by activating and reacting to hunger cravings "inappropriately"--especially when one is acting on a whim, and a trend history isn't supporting this activity, nor being applied in an educated fashion.
I don't know about any on else, I don't like the idea of working my butt off for an hour, and then allow the remaining 23 hours to knowingly cause an undesirable impact on my personal fitness goals. I don't like wasting my time.
Rather I try to "optimize" what I can, with what I know about myself, and I do this simply through education, and try to apply it correctly to the my personal particulars: This is in fact what ROCKS. It is in fact a 24 hour attack on one's goal, not an hour (or 4 hours per week as in my example). This is one of the reasons why most in the fitness field recommend trying to implement a: Life style change.
I love diet and fitness, young man. And, I learned many things in my own personal battles, and one of the most important ones are:
Separating the mind from the
feed back the body gives you, and
react using your mind that is
supported with education
in what you are attempting to do. You will always be fighting your "variable" bodily biological processes (that is effected through diet, training, and other personal factors), and while these can effect your head, there is still a piece of you in your mind, that is the stronger one, and its this piece you need to use to guide yourself.
Where it becomes weak is when one doesn't know what to do, because it isn't supported and backed by education. And, you learn what to do by educating yourself--and learning to apply it as you go. It is a learn as you go process.
The diet is the driving force and catalyst to solicit lean muscle mass; it is biologically expensive to create muscle mass.
The diet can
prevent muscle growth,
cause muscle growth,
prevent fat loss,
cause fat loss , and
effect a person biologically and psychologically. It is the catalyst within a fitness plan that makes everything else that one should
"also attempt to make optimal" work.
It seems to be "least expensive" to
new persons beginning a weight program when they have had a extreme time off or just beginning a program, and "most expensive" when one has been
training for long and consistent periods.
In other words, (keeping things equal) a lot of new persons to weight training can obtain extraordinary results from fitness training for a short time (until the body adapts), while one fitness training for a considerable length it can be much more difficult, pricey, and strength/gains "can be" much slower coming.
In both examples, the diet is still the cornerstone to solicit muscle mass and the weight training is the stimulus to solicit muscle strength/growth IF you continue to give the body "a reason" to remove itself from homeostasis (wanting to be the same).
And, this is through being proactive with "progression" when making/creating your workout, and being active "on-the-fly" with progression while in the gym "performing your routine"; you simply must make the body adapt, and when it seems it doesn't want to (dependent feedback results) reasonably force progression.
You support being able to apply effective progression in the gym, by "continually" educating yourself on weight training exercises, the basic mechanics, some advanced methods, keeping diet and weight training history on yourself, and applying an educated change as you move along with your personal fitness plan.
You simply write your own personal novel and insert an addendum (an update) where its needed based on solid educational foundation.
For example, I have been training for 3 years now. My initial personal goal was to strip about 35+ pounds of unwanted fat tissue, build some muscle, be lean, and have a 6-pack (over simplifying). This took me a year and a half to accomplish to my complete satisfaction. It did not come over night, is my point. I had to make may sacrifices and changes in my life I didn't like, but I sucked it up, and did it anyway. My body sometimes was a friggen cry baby, BUT I WASN'T in this initial goal quest.
My second goal, was to add about 10 pounds of muscle mass from a base weight of: 152/154, and limit fat accumulation (over simplifying). I began in September 07, and finished about July 08. I accomplished about 9 of the 10 pounds, and is a success. Again, this took nearly a year.
This year I plan to gain another 10 pounds (or move to 161/162 to 172), and I set this goal at one year. This is reasonable, practical, and reachable, with the extensive history I have kept on myself throughout my time of dieting and fitness training.
While I think its logical to say that someone younger (keeping things equal) would have more than likely had better or improved results, the fact remains it takes many months and many years to build muscle mass, and it simply does not come over night, and takes a lot of dedication and hard work. This is the point I am trying to make with using me as an example. And, at the same time, my goal progress is sometimes better than persons half my age. It isn't luck. It isn't genetics, it its simply: I WANT IT 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, and I act accordingly. Am I obsessed? Yes. But, I am trying to enjoy life to its fullest potential at the same time. I am educated, and I know what is bad and what is good for my body......my body doesn't "necessarily" know this (the taste buds LIE!
), so I am the strong one to make it rise to its potential; using its biological process against it self, and for its best interest.
One of you greats foes to your muscle gains is going to be consistency and persistence in application:
The best thing for energy is this:
1. Well constructed diet, 2. Surrounded with proper fitness exercise and rest, 3. Continually feeding and educating your brain the personally-proper input that motivates you to do 1 and 2.
The education behind diet and fitness (basics and fundamentals) are easy to understand. But, applying it to build muscle is the difficult part. It isn't a mistake why trainers apply a diet and training program to a specific person. Its because though we are all human, we are not all put together the same, and as such, you have to write your own fitness novel, and figure yourself out. Which means you are going to fall on your face a few times, get some bumps and bruises, before you figure yourself out. You really have no choice but to get through this process---TO MAKE IT.
1. Construct your calories personally to you, and adapt these calories that is applicable to your personal goal you seek.
2. Construct a sound Full Body Routine.
3. Work HARD.
4. Give it time.
5. And, good things happen to those with patience, and education supporting what they are doing.
I wish you the best of luck, young man. I really do.
Believe in yourself. Be passionate enough. Will yourself to build the body you desire.
Hope your day is well
Chillen
