Is it bad if...

[Legion Kreinak]

You get 8 hours of sleep after a hard day of training and still feel exhausted when you get up?

 

[Jabs]

If it continues you could be over training or not eating enough food to keep your body and mind going. Its easy to exhhaust your self if your not eating properly.

 

[louden_swain]

At your age I personally recommend 10 hours of sleep a night. Your body is doing nothing but growing.

 

[Legion Kreinak]

Yeah, I sleep about 6 hours a night AND eat about 1200 calories a day. At 6', 155 lbs I guess that's a bad thing. If I continue at this pace, while working out, will I eventually go under weight? I mean, how much should I eat if I want to MAINTAIN my weight?

 

[JDarty6173]

Legion, no offence bro..But youre eating the maintenance calories of an 8 year old girl.... If you have any aspirations of getting bigger you will have to take the advice that many of us have given you time and time again.... "EAT" I know that sleep is a factor you can often not control, I mean I just graduated college taking 26 hours my last semester so I was luck to get 4 hour/night... But your diet you can control... If you want to recover from training, if you want to have energy, if you want to get bigger, if you want to get stronger.. then "EAT" ... At least get up to 3000 calories/day and at the very least 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight... Much better yet consume 4000 calories and 2 grams of protein per pound.. Look, the members of this board are always more than willing to help you...But youre gonna have to trust us and take our advice.. We Learned through experience what works and you can benefit through out trial and error if you will just listen.. Since the first post I saw you make on this board asking how to gain weight I have personally gained about 15 lean pounds... If you would have taken our advice then you could have done the same...

Sorry if this has sounded like a rant towards you Legion, It was meant with the best of intentions to help you.. If you want you can post your training schedule and the specifics of your diet and myself and many people who are much more knowledgeable than me will be glad to make specific recommendations as to what you should change..

Peace

 

[Legion Kreinak]

I don't find it offensive at all bro, I know you're trying to help. I'm just saying like... it's so hard to eat. I try. Besides the fact that I'm picky (mainly I only eat tuna, and that's very low in fat, and calories) I also don't have THAT much money (though I have a job now, I get like $160 a week, telemarketing) so it's hard for me.

 

[gettinlarger]

I don't find it offensive at all bro, I know you're trying to help. I'm just saying like... it's so hard to eat. I try. Besides the fact that I'm picky (mainly I only eat tuna, and that's very low in fat, and calories) I also don't have THAT much money (though I have a job now, I get like $160 a week, telemarketing) so it's hard for me.

Ramen noodles my man. 300 calories for a quarter. Haha.

 

[t3c]

I don't find it offensive at all bro, I know you're trying to help. I'm just saying like... it's so hard to eat. I try. Besides the fact that I'm picky (mainly I only eat tuna, and that's very low in fat, and calories) I also don't have THAT much money (though I have a job now, I get like $160 a week, telemarketing) so it's hard for me.

You get get some CHEAP food...

Milk
Eggs
Bulk Chicken

Also, how old are you? i was under the impression that youre pretty young

shouldn't your parents be feeding you...by law?

 

[JDarty6173]

Legion, Like gettinlarger said... Ramen noodles are cheap as dirt and loaded in calories...They're like 5 packs for a dollar..Then theres mac n cheese (cheap with tons o callories) ... If you have a SAMS club near you , you can buy food dirt cheap in massive quantities....

 

[Lord_Suston]

box of macaroni 66cents 8 serving 200cal each this is without cheese and sauce.

Red been and rice (Success Rice) 2 servings 300cal each 98cents

12eggs 68cent at price Chopper
gallon of whole milk 1.59

you can find the cals somewhere if you want to

 

[jeremys]

Snickers bars are $.68 a piece.................or so i've heard

 

[Legion Kreinak]

Woah... Ramen Noodles? But I didn't think they were clean. Probably alot of sodium right? I used to eat that welfare soup all the time with tabasco sauce! =D I'd down like 3 of em... 300 cals each? Shit! No wonder I was gettin' chunky! >_<

 

[Jason B]

I used to be like you too man. I knew I had to eat to grow, but I didn't, and I still wondered why I couldn't get bigger. I would always switch around my training, trying new programs in order to get huge, and I always ended up dissapointed and I blamed my lifting program. Nothing will work if you don't eat!!! So eat already!. Total calories are more important than macronuttient ratios. I wish I could start all over at your age knowing what I know now. I'm 25 and I've been lifting for probably 5 years but I didn't figure out nutrition until a year ago when I found this board and others like it. I have made great changes in my physique since then. This board is a huge pool of knowledge composed of hundreds of combined years of training experience. Use it. Otherwise five years from now you will finally figure things out, and say damn, I should have been doing this all along like the dudes on elite told me.

 

[erickthegreat11]

Well.... @155# no exercise you need exactly 1550 calories.
155# and weightlifting, and cardio, and (no offense) late stages of puberty, and 6' tall...... no one can say. Just something to experiment with I'd say you're probably eating close to half what your body needs. Being tired is a good sign of under eating. You got to eat to grow. In your situation it may be close to impossible to get fat, so just eat a lot.