Battling issues...

[oddmud]

So I've been working on and off for about a year, without gaining much.

I'm 6'4" 193.5 pounds (first thing in the morning). So I'm quite thin for my height. My goal is to be 205. It's going to have to be muscle gain, cause fat doesn't stick with me. I'm high energy, and have a fast metabolism. I have a very minor gut, just enough to cover any abs, but wouldn't consider myself "fat".

I took from September til Christmas off due to injury that turned in to lazy. I've been working out about 4-6 weeks now, and I feel like I've almost gained back what I lost as in muscle definition.

My problem is I'm not really gaining weight, and my fat level has only increased a tiny bit (as I've been eating as much as I can). Yet I'm still pretty much the same weight.

Now I posted about lifting and not being able to finish all my reps cause it's too heavy. Asking if I should reduce the amount of weight during the accordingly. This tells me that I'm lifting heavy for my strength (I think). Or is it just that I'm a wuss and lazy?

I'm just not seeing gains for the amount of time I'm putting in to it. My workouts last about 1 hour and 15 minutes if I do them correctly. I rest about 90 seconds between reps.

I'm working on Dougs 4 day split workout, modified as I don't have all the machines and such. Just a weight bench, with dumbells and barbells, etc. I do skip workouts here and there due to having hockey the day of, or getting slightly too busy. But I would say 90% of the time I'm on schedule.

My main purpose for working out is to look better naked to be completely honest... lol.. Then the second purpose would be to increase my strength and fitness for playing goalie in ice hockey.

Am I just being too impatient? Am I just lazy?

Should I be taking some hardcore supplements?

I've decided I want to introduce a lot more cardio to my workouts because my cardio sucks.

What do I do?

[Doug]

Originally Posted by oddmud

So I've been working on and off for about a year, without gaining much.

I'm 6'4" 193.5 pounds (first thing in the morning). So I'm quite thin for my height. My goal is to be 205. It's going to have to be muscle gain, cause fat doesn't stick with me. I'm high energy, and have a fast metabolism. I have a very minor gut, just enough to cover any abs, but wouldn't consider myself "fat".

I took from September til Christmas off due to injury that turned in to lazy. I've been working out about 4-6 weeks now, and I feel like I've almost gained back what I lost as in muscle definition.

My problem is I'm not really gaining weight, and my fat level has only increased a tiny bit (as I've been eating as much as I can). Yet I'm still pretty much the same weight.

Now I posted about lifting and not being able to finish all my reps cause it's too heavy. Asking if I should reduce the amount of weight during the accordingly. This tells me that I'm lifting heavy for my strength (I think). Or is it just that I'm a wuss and lazy?

I'm just not seeing gains for the amount of time I'm putting in to it. My workouts last about 1 hour and 15 minutes if I do them correctly. I rest about 90 seconds between reps.

I'm working on Dougs 4 day split workout, modified as I don't have all the machines and such. Just a weight bench, with dumbells and barbells, etc. I do skip workouts here and there due to having hockey the day of, or getting slightly too busy. But I would say 90% of the time I'm on schedule.

My main purpose for working out is to look better naked to be completely honest... lol.. Then the second purpose would be to increase my strength and fitness for playing goalie in ice hockey.

Am I just being too impatient? Am I just lazy?

Should I be taking some hardcore supplements?

I've decided I want to introduce a lot more cardio to my workouts because my cardio sucks.

What do I do?

You dont say anything about your diet? most people who arent achieving results arent paying attention to the detail of the diet

[oddmud]

I do not have the resources, nor the time, or will to stick to any certain meal plan. I am eating as much as I can as often as I can.

I tend to eat:

Breakfast:
1 egg
1 pouch of oatmeal
X-Large Coffee, 2 cream 2 sugar

Lunch:
2 Sandwiches, deli meat, with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, cheese, pickles, mayo, mustard

Afternoon snack:
Bowl of Mini-Wheats with 1% milk

Dinner:
Chicken or Pasta meal, with veggies, rice.

Evening Snack:
Cookies, or Almonds, wine gums (lol).

That would be an average day, sometimes I'll just have a peperoni stick, or crackers or something here or there in between.

I've been lacking the protein shakes for the past month as I ran out, and I have not been by my local Popeye's lately. I intend to go pick some up this week.

[oddmud]

This is the biggest I've looked yet.. which ain't very big. :|

[oddmud]

Since my diet may not be ideal, and not getting enough calories... would using something like this help my situation?

http://www.muscleandstrength.com/sto...ct-description

[Doug]

Your diet is an important part of your training, once you have gained an adaptation to weight training your results from training will suffer without a good diet. Use the site BMR/Activity calculator to calculate calorie requirements to maintain your current body weight, then if your goal is to add muscle then add a further 500 calories to that total, then split the calories into meals every three to four hours throughout the day

[oddmud]

It tells me I need at least 3500+ calories a day. I've not calculated what my average is (above) but I'm guestimating 2000-2500 calories ball park? As I asked in a post above, since I can't/won't stick to a diet plan, what about adding something like QuickMass?

[Metal312]

A weight gainer would definitely help you out, I myself like Monster mass in my shaker cut with 3 cups of whole milk that itself is around 1100 calories.

As to the whole diet thing I can definitely see you are not intaking nearly enough protein! You need to get 1-2 grams of protein per lb you weigh! Gotta get that protein!

Good luck buddy, just up the calories and protein and you should be fine!

-Mark

On a side note that weight gainer seems pretty expensive to me. $25 for 6 servings. But if money isn't an issue by all means

[oddmud]

Originally Posted by Metal312

As to the whole diet thing I can definitely see you are not intaking nearly enough protein! You need to get 1-2 grams of protein per lb you weigh! Gotta get that protein!

On a side note that weight gainer seems pretty expensive to me. $25 for 6 servings. But if money isn't an issue by all means

Yeah I only stopped the protein intake this last month or so because I ran out. I planned on getting some this week. But I might ad the weight gainer too.

As for the QuickMass, it was merely the first one that came up when I looked at weight gainers. I'll check out what's available locally.

[shipdadip]

1 egg for breakfast? That's less than me and I am cutting.