Average growth rate while bulking

[fet123]

well basikly my question is what is average growth rate while bulking? how maany pounds per moth. Taking into acount that you dont want a lot of them to be fat althought some yes. I am just curious, at the moment in 1 and2/3 months I gained 6 pounds and I havent gained not even 1/2 an inch in my waist i see little fat but its close to nothing. Do this numbers sound good or are they low? I have to agree that my diet could be better but being a college student its really hard to keep up to it, and at night I work as a waiter all the running around is not helping either. But I think I made some good progress.

 

[CowPimp]

I think something like 1-2 pounds each month is a reasonable range to shoot for if you want to minimize fat gains and you are beyond your newbie gains.

 

[fet123]

thanks, ok I think im in the right track.

 

[Seanp156]

When I first started training, it was about 4lbs a month for the first 6 months or so.

 

[IwillOutworkYou]

I think the body can only add 1-2 pounds of muscle a week with PERFECT circumstances. So any month you ever gain 10+ polunds, you can rest assured that some of it was fat. Peace.

 

[dumbdumbdinkel3]

I think the body can only add 1-2 pounds of muscle a week with PERFECT circumstances. So any month you ever gain 10+ polunds, you can rest assured that some of it was fat. Peace.

yeah thats correct...im looking in my fitness and wellness book back from college and it says 1.5 pounds of muscle can be added per week with absolute perfect circumstances

 

[P-funk]

1.5lbs of muscle can not be added in 1 week. no way. 1.5lbs can be added...maybe half of that is muscle. but, to put on 1.5lbs of lean tissue in one week is not going to happen. if you think it is you are stupid.

 

[dumbdumbdinkel3]

1.5lbs of muscle can not be added in 1 week. no way. 1.5lbs can be added...maybe half of that is muscle. but, to put on 1.5lbs of lean tissue in one week is not going to happen. if you think it is you are stupid.

hey dude just reading the shit out of a textbook....and yeah it is probably impossible, but what the book say is absolute perfect conditions-that also is basically impossible to acheive.

 

[P-funk]

hey dude just reading the shit out of a textbook....and yeah it is probably impossible, but what the book say is absolute perfect conditions-that also is basically impossible to acheive.

can we get a reference on that? Text book name, pg. number, author, referenced study.

 

[fet123]

somehow the first month I gained a lot, like 5 now im stuck at 139 but I see my muscles growing, my best guess is that im burning some fat that I had wich is not much, and gaining little muscle. Maybe thats the reason wy the scale is not showing much improvement. I used to be 134

 

[IwillOutworkYou]

1.5lbs of muscle can not be added in 1 week. no way. 1.5lbs can be added...maybe half of that is muscle. but, to put on 1.5lbs of lean tissue in one week is not going to happen. if you think it is you are stupid.

I don't mean the average kid in the gym can. I'm saying if you give a beginner Kev Levrone a perfect diet, get him in the gym, and all the supper supplements he can eat, the man will probably gain 1 to 2 pounds of pure muscle per week. Until he reaches a plateau. Then of course it'll decrease. But it's pretty commonly said that 1 to 1.5, maybe 2 on the genetically gifted, can be gained.

 

[DiGiTaL]

i can put on some weight in a week (but i think its the newbie gains)
but i think my waist would get larger lol.

 

[GFR]

I think the body can only add 1-2 pounds of muscle a week with PERFECT circumstances. So any month you ever gain 10+ polunds, you can rest assured that some of it was fat. Peace.

 

[GFR]

hey dude just reading the shit out of a textbook....and yeah it is probably impossible, but what the book say is absolute perfect conditions-that also is basically impossible to acheive.

I read a book once that said the first man was made out of clay

 

[aceshigh]

throw on a kg of clay every few days insatnt weight gain,,,,or fill your pockets with rocks

 

[Phred]

throw on a kg of clay every few days insatnt weight gain,,,,or fill your pockets with rocks

Are you refering to Arnold when he said he likened BB-ing to a sculpter adding clay to the smaller body parts he needed to work on? Of course I do not recall he mentioning the rocks in the pockets.