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Putting on weight

ngower Posts: 34 Joined: 2003/01/11	2003/02/14, 01:57 PM I started really heavy weight training and a strict diet in December. Since then I have put on about 30 lbs. Is the healthy? ---------------------------- Nathan Gower "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
therainmaker Posts: 114 Joined: 2003/01/19	2003/02/14, 03:55 PM What is happening to your body is this: You have started your exercise program, which consists of you lifting more weights, and monitoring your diet. You’re loosing fat, but developing muscle. Lean or fat-free muscle tissue is about 22% denser than fat tissue. This mean that since you’ve gained 30 lbs you’ve in fact taken roughly 25 lbs of fat tissue and turned it into 30 lbs of fat-free muscle tissue. This is quite normal when people either start a new muscle-building program or start one for the first time.
therainmaker Posts: 114 Joined: 2003/01/19	2003/02/14, 07:17 PM Oops, make that you have gained 30 lbs of muscle, which would look the equivalent of 25 lbs of fat tissue. In total you've probably turned a lot of your body fat into muscle. What was your body fat percentage before you started compared to now?
ngower Posts: 34 Joined: 2003/01/11	2003/02/14, 08:46 PM Your right, I have very little body fat now, not not sure of my body fat percentages though. It seemed to happen fast though. People I havn't seen in a while hardly know me. I was just wondering if this is typical. -------------- Nathan Gower "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
therainmaker Posts: 114 Joined: 2003/01/19	2003/02/18, 09:01 AM Yeah I think it's typical. When you first start working out you're converting all of that excess fat gained through inactivity into muscle, but once you reach a certain level the muscle gain subsides. This is due to the fact that your body is getting used to the extra exercise.
mackfactor Posts: 766 Joined: 2002/10/17	2003/02/20, 05:01 PM Wow. Thirty pounds of muscle in two months - or even two and a half is spectacular, almost unbelievable for a natural trainee. What kind of strict diet are you on. What is your daily calorie intake? If you did indeed add 30 lbs. of lean mass, that would be incredible, but I would venture to guess that some of it has to be fat mass. -------------- "Don't follow leaders and watch your parking meters!" -- Bob Dylan
ngower Posts: 34 Joined: 2003/01/11	2003/02/21, 10:39 AM my diet i follow is very strict. I eat about 3500 cals and about 400-500 garbs. I also take about 5g's of micronized creatine, and lots of protein. Very little of it is actualy fat. I have actualy out grown a lot of my clothes. Most of all I feel SO much better than I did before. -------------- Nathan Gower "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden