Well, I am a 19 year old male, and I’ve been training since pretty much before I was really even a teenager. Of course, with those years I spent training I’ve improved a lot, my diet and training have become more intense and complex and I’ve learned a vast amount. However, I feel that something is wrong, but I can’t quite put my finger on what it is. Perhaps you folks with more knowledge and experience could help me.
I have a ridiculously high metabolism. I can eat 4000 calories in a day and somehow still have a hard time gaining an ounce. Right now I’m 5’9 1/2 and sitting at around 163 pounds and I feel quite small. I’ve been on a perma-bulk pretty much since I’ve been training. I try to eat 4-6 decent meals a day. It’s something like this:
Meal 1:
6-7 whole eggs
Oat meal
A few strawberries
Multivitamin
Meal 2:
A double portion of whatever is being served at the campus cafeteria
Meal 3:
Nachos with beef and cheese or two portions of spaghetti with meat sauce
A few apples
Meal 4:
Steak, salmon or chicken (depending on what’s available)
Some vegetable (whether it be green beans, broccoli, spinach)
some fruit (apples, strawberries)
Meal 5:
Oat meal or leftover meat if not both
Post-workout drink
If I’m hungry after that then I’ll eat another meal 2-4 hours later…
Hopefully that isn’t too terrible of a diet.
I’ve definitely made some gains, but I’ve noticed that I’m getting surprisingly fatter. My mom noticed that I’m starting to get a bit of a gut and I noticed it as well. As I’d said I have a very high metabolism, so it isn’t like I can just get fat from just looking at certain foods. Why exactly is that?
I have started to ramp up my ab workouts, but I’m not sure if that’s exactly the solution. Whatever I gain in muscle I also have started to gain in fat, and I’m still small as hell. Other guys my age (and even younger) that I know are doing much less but still end up gaining more lean mass and less fat. They’re all pretty much bigger than me. I don’t think this boils down to being simply genetics.
What exactly am I doing wrong here? Is it my training? Diet?
I could outline my training but this thing is already long enough…