In 1 year how much lean muscle can you get if you've only been training for about 5 months? I've seen on other sites that you can gain like 30-40 lbs of muscles in a year, and people on these forums say that would take like 2 years for 30-40 pounds. So my question is honestly, how much lean muscle will someone gain in a year?
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12-09-2008, 06:08 PM #1Banned
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How much muscle can you gain.
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12-09-2008, 08:00 PM #2Prepare Perform Prevail
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Depends on a lot of factors, mostly the individual. Diet, intensity, rest, training level/experience, stress, steroids, blah blah. You get the idea.
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12-10-2008, 02:21 AM #3Registered User
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12-10-2008, 02:37 AM #4Registered User
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As far as i'm aware the absolute maximum amount of LEAN muscle tissue that can be built considering all factors are in perfect balance and amounts is .5lbs per week or 2lbs per month which would equate to around 20-25lbs per year, now of course it is hard to measure this as there are alot of things to take into consideration as to how much weight you're gaining, but try a slight caloric excess, around 200-300 calories and judge your results in the mirror, if you're gaining too much fat cut back 100 calories or so til you're certain most of your weight is lean.
I've never understood the idea behind eating 500 calories over maintenance to gain a pound a week, it's true there it requires 3500 calories to create one pound of fat so i don't understand why you would want to bulk up gaining the same ratio of fat as muscle?
Stay at a lean bf% i.e. around 10 and slow bulk, it's alot easier to mark progress this way, plus you don't have to go through 'phases'.
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