Does it matter?

[r0dx]

Me and my friend are very competitive against each other in terms of gaining mass.

We are both the same weight, and bulking on 3300 calories.

My protein consumption is from: Cottage Cheese, Canned Tuna/Salmon, Egg Whites (Egg Beaters), Milk, Whey/Casien Powders, Ezekial Bread (Complete Protein)

His is from: Red Meat, Chicken, Plus all mine.

I ocassionally make grilled chicken, but for the most part I have what I listed as my daily protein, and usually have some sushi (raw salmon/mahi) on the weekends or a steak when I go out to eat.

Does it really matter that I don't consume meat on a daily basis? I usually have it once or twice a week. Really no reason just like the sources I listed. He says he will get alot bigger from all the meat, if all macros are the same and lets just say equal genetics/workouts/sleep...Would it really make a big difference, if any at all?

 

[SgtSlaughter]

The old school bodybuilders used to eat 1 pound or more of just red meat per day... no clue what the guys nowadays eat.

I don't know... how about you keep the diets as is.... and tell us if there's a difference in a few months You can be an experiment.

Something else I was thingking about, red meat... yes I would include at least 4-5 days a week on a bulker because cholestoral stimulates the hormone Testosterone... and well, I hope you know what that does.

 

[Lifterforlife]

You are both taking in the same calories, and same amount of complete proteins, it will not matter in that aspect. Beef for instance is simply higher calories, so he will be able to eat less of it than you will of chicken or tuna for instance to make calories match.

However, this does not mean that one will not gain more than the other, even with the same protein and calories. Metabolism, energy expenditure, not to mention genes, all go into how much muscle one gains. One may in fact gain more fat, the other more muscle.

****This saturated fat and T incresases has been bantered about time and again.

I have to date not seen one credible paper of evidence pointing to saturated fat increasing T, in fact, the opposite. the only ones I have seen that target fat with T is with poly and mono's alongside, and even this was very inconclusive and filled with flaws.