Is it easy to gain one pound of muscle per month?

[jbest360]

I wasn't sure how much muscle I could build in a month. I'm 17 years old and weigh 170 pounds. I lift 6 days a week and take one protein shake after each workout. I also eat around 2500 calories a day. My goal is to gain 10 pounds of muscle while lowering my bf% by October. Is that too much or too little for the period of time?

[Mefreh]

You could gain UP TO 1 pounds of muscle/week, I'd set your sites a little higher. I'd like to note that to gain muscle, you need to gain weight, I weigh 168 and I eat 3400 calories/day to gain 1 pound/week.

[basim07]

Easily*

*T&C Apply


Max you can gain is 2LBS lean muscle per WEEK so thats 8lbs per month

pretty easy provided your diet and training is right

make sureyou get 500 cals above maintenance and minimum 1g protein per 1lb bodyweigbt

[Devouement]

lulz at this thread.

[fit4life1991]

I wasn't sure how much muscle I could build in a month. I'm 17 years old and weigh 170 pounds. I lift 6 days a week and take one protein shake after each workout. I also eat around 2500 calories a day. My goal is to gain 10 pounds of muscle while lowering my bf% by October. Is that too much or too little for the period of time?

eat moar. I'm 10 pounds less than you and I'm cutting right now if 3000 calories. wtf 2500 calories. I know a girl that 5'5 90 pounds that almost eats that much (kinda srs more like 1700 but w/e lol)

[SaratogaKid]

You could gain UP TO 1 pounds of muscle/week, I'd set your sites a little higher. I'd like to note that to gain muscle, you need to gain weight, I weigh 168 and I eat 3400 calories/day to gain 1 pound/week.

lol, i hope you are 50 pounds heavier of lean muscle mass by the end of the year.

[MrB1g]

You could gain UP TO 1 pounds of muscle/week, I'd set your sites a little higher. I'd like to note that to gain muscle, you need to gain weight, I weigh 168 and I eat 3400 calories/day to gain 1 pound/week.

Easily*

*T&C Apply


Max you can gain is 2LBS lean muscle per WEEK so thats 8lbs per month

pretty easy provided your diet and training is right

make sureyou get 500 cals above maintenance and minimum 1g protein per 1lb bodyweigbt

Both of you...Please.

So you reckon you can gain between 52 and 104 pounds of pure, dry rock hard muscle in a year?

Time to snap out of dream time.

[SaratogaKid]

Both of you...Please.

So you reckon you can gain between 52 and 104 pounds of pure, dry rock hard muscle in a year?

Time to snap out of dream time.

thank god someone is sensible

[syntaxle]

You can probably gain 24lb of solid, dry muscle a year. So that's 2lb per month.

[cdol]

Both of you...Please.

So you reckon you can gain between 52 and 104 pounds of pure, dry rock hard muscle in a year?

[MrB1g]

[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/11v7asx.jpg[/IMG

Hahahaha. Repped. Lol'ed hard.

[SeanP35]

You can gain whatever your body feels like doing. Everybody is different, and some people gain better than others. You can't just say "the human body caps out at 2 pounds of muscle every month, it refuses to build anymore". It doesn't work that way.

[syntaxle]

However remember that's solid, dry muscle. You'd probably look alot more impressive than that sounds with a years training, because you'd tone up those muscles, gain water and other content in the muscles, and would have a slightly higher level of fat on you to maintain the relative BF% to your new-found weight. I was 112lb in September, now I'm 140lb and still lean enough to see a few abs. That's a big gain of weight without becoming a fat-ass.

[cdol]

Hahahaha. Repped. Lol'ed hard.

Thankyou sir, ill do the same.

[syntaxle]

You can gain whatever your body feels like doing. Everybody is different, and some people gain better than others. You can't just say "the human body caps out at 2 pounds of muscle every month, it refuses to build anymore". It doesn't work that way.

Yeah, this is true as well. 24lb a year is a very rough guide, but people vary so much it could be more than that, or it could be less.

[Wadernater]

yeah its pretty easy to gain one pound of muscle per month. im proble gaining like 3 or 4 a month

[zepplin92]

You could gain UP TO 1 pounds of muscle/week, I'd set your sites a little higher. I'd like to note that to gain muscle, you need to gain weight, I weigh 168 and I eat 3400 calories/day to gain 1 pound/week.

Easily*

*T&C Apply


Max you can gain is 2LBS lean muscle per WEEK so thats 8lbs per month

pretty easy provided your diet and training is right

make sureyou get 500 cals above maintenance and minimum 1g protein per 1lb bodyweigbt

Not sure if serious...

[BigDav081]

You could gain UP TO 1 pounds of muscle/week, I'd set your sites a little higher. I'd like to note that to gain muscle, you need to gain weight, I weigh 168 and I eat 3400 calories/day to gain 1 pound/week.

Easily*

*T&C Apply


Max you can gain is 2LBS lean muscle per WEEK so thats 8lbs per month

pretty easy provided your diet and training is right

make sureyou get 500 cals above maintenance and minimum 1g protein per 1lb bodyweigbt

[WIDGE_uk]

teen section - where 104lbs of muscle in a year is easy

[SeanP35]

teen section - where 104lbs of muscle in a year is easy

wht? u cant gain that? ur pathtic. i can do that in 4 months. i squat 800 pounds no problm either.



Seriously. The bad advice is just getting bad.

[Kcabo]

5lbs of lbm per week is easily obtainable





















wait WUT

[SeanP35]

5lbs of lbm per week is easily obtainable





















wait WUT

its 7 u idiot. look what celltech says.


Let this thread die a slow, exaggerated, and painful death. Die thread...die...

[syntaxle]

Can the people critisizing state what they think a max gain of muscle p/m is? :P


Like I said, I'm going with 2lb per month.

[readyforthepain]

Both of you...Please.

So you reckon you can gain between 52 and 104 pounds of pure, dry rock hard muscle in a year?

Time to snap out of dream time.

zing

[passerbyca]

Hax pic

lmfao! reppedx2

[jason92]

lmfao! reppedx2

rep power: 0

[passerbyca]

aw that sucks...haha well ill rep him without actually repping him

[allergic2rice]

1 pound....of muscle....a week...


hahahahhahHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[WIDGE_uk]

Can the people critisizing state what they think a max gain of muscle p/m is? :P


Like I said, I'm going with 2lb per month.

2lbs max naturally, im not saying its un-heard of to gain more, im saying averaged over any amount of time, more is very very unlikly

[allergic2rice]

i'd say 1-1.5 lbs a month under perfect perfect conditions