[quote]David98 wrote:
[quote]kd13 wrote:
Best routine i have done for gaining size is the one I was doing while I fixed my poor diet with insufficient calories.
The routine itself was a push pull, although I feel the change in routine helped it was undoubtedly down to the diet. How’s your intake? Also what has your training been like so far?[/quote]
My training, in my opinion, is pretty good. Training 5 days a week hitting everything once (except for arms) but getting back twice. I think nutrition is my issue. Every meal i have, except breakfast, is either chicken and rice or chicken and pasta. so it gets old. I know when its ‘time’ to eat (3 hours) but i’m just sick of it. I’m in college, but on my own so i buy my food and prepare it. I have plenty of time too cook, money and the will to eat the same thing all of the time are the issues. Its mainly eating the same thing. Any suggestions to fixing that?[/quote]
Diet will be holding you back, I had many years of training like a body builder and not fueling myself sufficiently. For me I made sure breakfast was better, I went through a stage of having oats, ground almonds and whole milk blended up, add what you like for flavour. Pretty cheap and quick, if you have the cash add whey.
Swap to brown pasta, bread and rice, eat more whole foods.
Shoot for 100g of quality nuts, this is pretty easy and with some nuts can take you over 1000 cal. I know expense may be an issue here.
You will need to force feed yourself the first few weeks. What you think is a lot of food really is not, admit this to yourself now so you can progress!
I can right more about the routine i had great success with, believe me you will be training much less and gaining much more.