Letting the Calories Build Up for a Week to Gain Mass

[Jonathan]

I tell you gaining wieght is not an easy thing to do.If you are into a fitness lifestyle you will always have to make a real effort to put on muscle (mass).

I work two jobs now and do a 4 day split routine and also play division 2 soccer.However I eat like its going out of style.One of my jobs is a cook where we can pretty much munch out all day if we like (which I do).

Sometimes I think I ought to take a training break for a week and let the calories build up.I dont know enough about this to say if that would be a good idea or not.

I thought by now Id be up to at least a solid 145 or so but this morning I was 141 at 17% BF.

[w0cyru01]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

I tell you gaining wieght is not an easy thing to do.If you are into a fitness lifestyle you will always have to make a real effort to put on muscle (mass).

I work two jobs now and do a 4 day split routine and also play division 2 soccer.However I eat like its going out of style.One of my jobs is a cook where we can pretty much munch out all day if we like (which I do).

Sometimes I think I ought to take a training break for a week and let the calories build up.I dont know enough about this to say if that would be a good idea or not.

I thought by now Id be up to at least a solid 145 or so but this morning I was 141 at 17% BF.

I don't know how old those pictures are, but you don't look 17% bodyfat. I'd say you're closer to 12, but it's kind of hard to tell really.

[Jonathan]

well i just use this target scale with a BF indicator on it.All my pictures are almost day to day

[gymBum]

The results that those BF indicators give should be taken with a grain of salt. They can be very far off and manually checking your BF is a lot more accurate.

[Jonathan]

How do I do that gym?

[alb_tex]

Body Fat calipers are a decent tool that you can do yourself.

TEX