How can I keep gaining muscles?

Question

Hi... I'm 6'0 ft 172 lbs... I'm in college 19 years old, I gained about 40 lbs now (fat and muscles) the problem in 1 year. I feel like I'm not gaining muscles anymore. I bench like 110 and my back is 200lbs... I really feel like I'm getting mascular anymore. Help me...!!! I wanna gain another 10 lbs lean muscles.

Answer 1

do you have a trainer? you should not eat like h**l bcoz that will just waste the workout you do. :)

enjoy what you do... don't stress... i believe that works

~taj

Answer 2

Ok here is your answer. First of all don't listen to anyone who posted here. They have no idea what they are talking about. If you are benching 110 then you have still yet to even develope muscle mass. Which means none of your muscle is even trained. So it can't grow and get stronger.

First and foremost is you need to develope muscle control. Only way to do this is practice flexing them. Stand infront of a mirror and start posing. You need perfect control of your muscles in order for them to develope and grow.

Second of is training. You need to be lifting weights 6 days a week. You need to work every muscle TWICE per week. So you need to be bench pressing on mondays and thursdays. These are my days anyways. Do not start eating protien supplements or anything of the sort. Do not change your diet till have 2 months of muscle training. You arent trying to get bigger your trying to develope the muscles.

In order for your muscles to grow they must be developed! I can't stress this enough. Here is a layout of what muscles to work on what days.

Monday: chest and tris

Tuesday: bis and abs

wednesday: back and shoulders and legs

thursday: chest and tris

friday: bis and abs

Saturday: back and shoulders and legs

You also need to EAT. Gotta eat if you wanna get big"-. You need to be eating 15 calories per pound you weigh + another 500-1000. Feed the muscle.  Your body is still growing and everything you eat does not turn into fat. The only time your body starts producing fat is when you starve yourself. Keep eating and instead of it building into fat it will be built into muscle or pooped out. Either way diet is completely unimportant at your age especially when trying to gain muscle mass.

Summarizing all that. You need to workout constantly. Develope your muscles and eat alot. You will double your bench in 6 months.

Answer 3

There are two states of bodybuilding. Bulking and getting definition (deffing). To get definition you simply drop bodyfat. However when you do this, a lot of lean mass usually goes with it.

At 172 you're probably not very heavy, but you say you gained 40 pounds which makes me worried you may be fattening yourself up too much.

Gaining muscle is part genetics, part routine and part diet.

Do weights only twice a week, and push it to the max. Doing a lot of repetitions will hopefully cause growth of the appropriate muscle fiber, for size. Eat a gram of protein for each pound of bodyweight. The other days you can actually do cardio, and try to deff some of that bodyfat off to gain definition.

Beyond that, cross your fingers and pray you have the right genes. Not everyone is meant to be a mountain of muscle. Be proud of your individual results. You're only competing with yourself, and it doesn't help much if you get fat and unhealthy in the process.

Answer 4

keep training