Muscle gains your first year

[pwr_machine]

I dont know about lbm. I read somewhere that its only possible to put on a few pounds of lbm every year yet i constantly hear people talking about the massive gains they made.

I have the same thoughts. I'm amazed at the responses I've seen.

 

[Tiervexx]

i gained about 50lbs. Waist did not change much in that time.

Throughout most of that time i did not do squats so almost all of that was in the upper body.

Before you all have a chance to say that +40 pounds of LBM in upper body is impossible you should know that people who had not seen me in most of that time whent ape shit when they saw me later. so i know that i made close to that much change.

The truth is that this was not much of an accomplishment because before that i had no muscle mass what so ever and did no strenuous physical activity. since all i did was sit, read, and watch TV just looking at a weight scared my body into growth.

 

[JOKER47]

~10lbs. Doing everything wrong, by the way.


Joker

 

[FatRat]

I dont know about lbm. I read somewhere that its only possible to put on a few pounds of lbm every year yet i constantly hear people talking about the massive gains they made. I'm not counting steroid users.

We are looking at so many variables here.

I guess a lot of guys did their first year of training sometime in their teens? In that case, they where probably going to put on weight as their bodies matured with or without training.

Also, if you are going to go from a complete sedentary, almost mal nourished existence, to sorting out your diet to something that resembles healthiness, then again, I think you would expect some gain in lean body mass with little or no training.

We have not taken into account gear usage. You can get sa good few heavy cycles under your belt in a year, in which case, even the higher end numbers we are seeing could be seen as low, specially for a newbie!