exactly. there's a certain amount of muscle your body will make depending on your genetic makeup. if you do everything right, then yes your body will try its best to make the max amount possible. but the point is IT IS LIMITED! there's a point at which the body goes ok this is all i am going to make, i dont care if you are in the gym for 4hrs and eat 500000 calories.
They never wanted Yao to bulk up just to get stronger and plus he matured from being 22 to 26-27. You naturally get bigger from 18-25.
You cannot say that someone can't put on 30lbs of muscle in a certain period of time. Everyone's genetic makeup is different which can make it easier/harder for them to build muscle. With him being young, still growing, eating properly and training hard I don't see why he couldn't do it.
There are ways break past a plateau when you body stops responding(changing workouts, diet, supplmentation, etc.). There is no point at which your body will stop growing unless you have some typ of medical condition.
Well, it doesn't say when he started to gain weight. As far as I know, he could have been gaining weight since his last college game. But 30 lbs of only upper muscle in a short time doesn't sound right. That's like carrying around a 30 lb weight on your head. I can see someone gaining 30 lbs by just eating MCdonald's for a month but fat is heavier than muscle. Probably just someone who "saw" him but not exactly know the figures...
lol. were your fraternity brothers impressed by your acheivement too? repeat some of this drivel to any trainer worth his weight and you're going to get laughed out of the gym. it's physiologically impossible to put on 30 lbs. of "muscle" that quickly except in a fantasy world void of all nutritional factors.
the other 10-15lbs is probably water weight. 4.5 pounds per month is the safe figure for gaining. no good reason to chance stretch marks.
This is the thread that won't die. I read it again and the article clearly says he's gained the 30 lbs of muscle in his upper body since being drafted. He's up to 280 lbs. Just wanted to clarify.
I have to think you are r****ded at this point. Even allowing for the asinine assumption that he somehow packed on 30lbs. of muscle, do you realize how much fat accompanies that gain? Depending on your metabolism, you're looking at ATLEAST 2lbs. of fat per 5lbs. of muscle gained. Now consider we are talking about a guy who just had major surgery and hasn't been able to do any cardio, and again allowing for the absolutely asinine assumption that he somehow put on 30 lbs. of MUSCLE, he's pushing 300 lbs. It's not rocket science. You don't just build muscle by working hard and eating protein or the other drivel you're imagining in your simple world. Fat storage naturally accompanies any massive gain in a bulking phase. It's not rocket science. EAT ALOT => GET BIG. Professional body builders go on bulk phases where they eat everything in sight and at the very least consume 3000 calories per day. They then go on cutting phases where they operate in calorie deficits and shed the fat, retaining the muscle. The body burns the fat first when operating in a deficit => they get cut. If you think you gained 30 lbs. of pure muscle in x amount of time, all I can say is LOL. Your useless rhetoric about "failing to acheive goals" or whatever the hell you said is as worthless as your baseless argument. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about dude.
Post that Oden gained 30lbs of muscle and no fat in his upper body since he was drafted on a forum with REAL bodybuilders and watch the laughter follow.
CaseyH, The claim of gaining 30 lbs in 5 months is very realistic, but the claim of all that mass being muscle is just not possible without roids.
that's not what i meant. i meant in a week or a time period, u can only grow so much. not that a person only grows a certain amount of muscle forever.
Theres a big difference between 30 pounds of muscle and 30 pounds of sloppiness... it's prabably a combination of both.
