How do i gain the mass cheap?

• maskedangel

  28 Jul 08, 18:10

  I eat alot, and i cant seem to gain weight.
  
  My friend have advised me to take mass gainer, but are there side effects?
  
  Are there any other ways to gain the mass?
  
  Like taking lotsa milk or wadever?

• eagle

  28 Jul 08, 22:26

  You can't get big by taking mass gainer if your body do not need it; you will only excrete it and create expensive urine.

  You have make your body use the extra calories for cell repair and growth. The best way is to do full body workouts. There's no shortcut to it.

  There are some exercises in the stickies in which you can take a look, and more in the online website T-nation.

• azhiwen

  29 Jul 08, 00:00

  Start by going to the gym and doing compound exercises. Then eat more meat, get more sleep. If you do it consistently and diligently for a few months, you'd see some results.

• davidche

  30 Jul 08, 20:09

  any egs of full body workouts?

• forum_dude

  30 Jul 08, 20:40

  deadlift,benchpress,squats

• davidche

  30 Jul 08, 22:04

  thanks but stuffs like deadlifts seem only to be for pro body buiilders. Gym noobs like me only use machinesand dumbells for shoulders.

• eagle

  31 Jul 08, 17:32

  Originally posted by davidche:

  thanks but stuffs like deadlifts seem only to be for pro body buiilders. Gym noobs like me only use machinesand dumbells for shoulders.

  That's not true

  Even 'pro body builders' start from doing very light on stuffs like deadlifts. Very very light.

• davidche

  31 Jul 08, 23:11

  haha dont know if i can do a dead lift(worrying about the form) but i cant even do a bench press with no loads(just the pole)

• eagle

  31 Jul 08, 23:17

  practice, try, train

  then practice again, try again, train again

   

• davidche

  31 Jul 08, 23:20

  NO TIME! gt o lvls to prepare. I wonder if gym and studying supplement each other.  Maybe it stimulates release of some hormones or sth that helps to optimise bloodflow...just guessing. Anybody has scientific info on tat?

• eagle

  31 Jul 08, 23:29

  dunno

  but I can go gym, and still get my first class honours within the same period. So I guess it doesn't matter?

• davidche

  31 Jul 08, 23:35

  Originally posted by eagle:

  dunno

  but I can go gym, and still get my first class honours within the same period. So I guess it doesn't matter?

  
  wow. ok i think ill do that. hope it helps.

• kopiosatu

  31 Jul 08, 23:36

  eat pork knuckles.

• azhiwen

  2 Aug 08, 12:15

  Chicken breast, 2 bucks plus for 200+ g of meat.

• maskedangel

  2 Aug 08, 13:26

  thnks mods. . so what i must do is juz plain work out?
  In other words, eat more and push vmy body to the limits ah?
  
  hmmm

• Trump_Card

  2 Aug 08, 13:30

  Take more carbs

• eagle

  2 Aug 08, 13:32

  yep

  eat more of everything => more carbs, more protein, more fats (not saturated ones though)

  And workout about 3~4 times a day... although I dun do it myself -.-
  cuz I go jog, play soccer and basketball also

   

• maskedangel

  2 Aug 08, 14:20

  saturated fats?

• Marco_Simone

  2 Aug 08, 20:50

  Originally posted by davidche:

  thanks but stuffs like deadlifts seem only to be for pro body buiilders. Gym noobs like me only use machinesand dumbells for shoulders.

  That's why most people in the gym look like noobs though they have been training quite regularly

• davidche

  2 Aug 08, 23:00

  Originally posted by Marco_Simone:

  That's why most people in the gym look like noobs though they have been training quite regularly

  
  XD machines are technically not very good. i heard it limits your motion.

• eagle

  2 Aug 08, 23:29

  Originally posted by davidche:

  
  XD machines are technically not very good. i heard it limits your motion.

  it restricts your range of motion, not your motion

  this might cause problems in your joints in the long run

• fishbuff1

  25 Aug 08, 11:01

  Originally posted by davidche:

  thanks but stuffs like deadlifts seem only to be for pro body buiilders. Gym noobs like me only use machinesand dumbells for shoulders.

  
  deadlifts and squat are good for all, provided u train with the correct techniques.

   

  mass gainers are laced with sugars.

   

  one way of gaining weight, do compound weightlifting exercise and drink at least 1liter of full cream milk a day.