Pound a week

[Toughenuff]

Its been about 4 weeks now, ive been on a strick diet of carbs and protein and ive gained on average about 1 pound per week.

Is this alright or should i be gaining more?

 

[Kracin]

thats perfectly fine, a pound a week is a good rate. usually more than that means your getting a bad ratio of fat/lean mass. (unless of course your taking um.... yeah you know what lol)

 

[Toughenuff]

Haha nah i aint taking those, i take supplements and they're all legal

 

[Kracin]

yep, then your doin fine.... im actually going to get my bodyfat tested again in a couple days here, since two months ago ive gained about 10-12 lbs, so it will be good to see how much is actually good and bad.

 

[Toughenuff]

How do you measure your body fat??

theres scales at my gym that take a body fat estimation but i heard those things are really inaccurate

 

[Kracin]

theres a couple ways.... if you go to a gym, ask them if they can do a skinfold test for you, thats basically using calipers. the scales your talking about would probably be impedance scales that get it from the electrical current running through your body which can be very innacurate because of all the variables.

i get mine done at a university that has a hydrostatic weigher, where they weigh you underwater, and through a bunch of calculations and other processess get your lean mass alone and get you a measurement accurate to 1-2%..... calipers are accurate 3-4%. and the impedance can be off by as much as 15 ive seen.

 

[Alaric]

that's a very good rate to be gaining at. Anywhere from 1-2 lbs/week is fine.