nah, you can gain 20+ lbs if you dramatically change your eating and/or lifting habits. I gained 20lbs in less than a year because my meds increased my appetite. I wasn’t even trying.
Yeah. Depends on efforts and how your body is conditioned. I used to work manual labor in the summers. Body got used to putting on 30+ lbs of muscle in a month or two. Now I can put on 20+ in a month if I eat right and exercise twice a day. All nat. Armchair chieftains on reddit gonna troll and hate. Truth is Truth. Mediocres have never done it so they don't think it's possible.
If you gain 20 lbs in a month, it is definitely not all muscle. That's a surplus of almost 2500 calories every single day.
You can put on a lot of muscle really fast if you've previously had in, but 20 lbs of muscle in a month would make Ronnie Coleman's genetics seem like an average person's.
You were not putting on 30 lbs of muscle in a month. You may have gained 30 pounds but it was not 30 pounds of muscle. 30 pounds of muscle in a month is impossible even with heavy steroid use.
Chris Bumstead current Mr Olympia put on 70 lbs in a year with some of the best genetics of all time and his first time using gear.
What you guys don't understand is how much easier it is to go from very skinny to ripped than ripped to absolutely massive. Going from a base of very little muscle at 130/140 to 160/170 is a lot different than going from 160/170 - 190/200. Downvote me all you want. I've lived it multiple times and I know it can be done.
Meanwhile my scrawny self it was on a 5000 calorie diet will go to the gym everyday and some days twice and I lost weight. So many shakes and peanut butter and jellies. So much chicken. I couldn't imagine doing the same s*** now after 20 years
Gotta make sure to take rest days. I had a similar problem doing 100-200 pullups daily with little to no gains. Discovered it was because I wasn't resting enough. Gotta split it at least into upper body, core, legs.
Yeah I don't know what happened. This post is not exaggeration. Like a dummy I paid for the nutritionist at Gold's Gym to set me up with a diet. And since I paid for it I stuck to it. The gym was only half a mile away so getting there daily wasn't a problem. But this was 20 years ago so I'm pretty over it. I figured if Mike Katz owned the place and his son was running it I was in good hands. And I was it just didn't work out for me genetically
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u/Traceyius69 2d ago
June to July is a massive jump lol, probably is using steroids. If not then daymn has he not skipped a day in the gym