I just don’t gain muscle no matter what i do
either not training hard enough or not eating enoughsimple asanything else is coping
>>77253352I am getting stronger, slowly, but not very muscular, my muscles are very flat when not pumped up post lifting
>>77253349train at least 3 days/weekactually put some efforteat and sleep moreit's not bad genetics or anything"hard gainers" are just lazy fuckers
>>77253359I lift 4 days a week and have two cardio days a week where i altenate running and bikingI do double progression style workouts and go to failure every seshI sleep fine
>>77253358Welcome to being natty lul
im newbie, been working out for 5 months and it feels like im bigger every time i go to the gym.. there is always some new tiny part of muscle that is bigger or wasnt there before
>>77253349that's axiomatically impossibleyou're just not noticing it because it's subtleif your lifts are improving you are gaining muscle, there is no discussion
>>77253349Probably not progressive overloading
>>77253352>not eating enoughCan we fucking STOP giving newbies this fucking garbage advice. You can create muscle even if youre literally fasting for days. You dont need to eat you need to be consistent and put in effort. Dont listen to these fucking idiot wannabe bodybuilders who look like shit irl.>consistency 4 days a week training minimum>high effort, you shouldn't be hitting failure with anything under 12-15 repsAs a newbie you need to teach your central nervous system the movements and patterns of your exercises. Higher reps in the beginning help with this then after a year or two of training you can go heavier with lower reps and longer rest times. In the beginning do the complete opposite, eat at a deficit. Train hard. And do your cardio for fat loss
>>77253349Are you lifting in grunting beast mode? You might just be in lazy/averse-to-effort mode and you're just casually doing reps instead of stacking on the weight which will actually break the muscle down and rebuild it. 10lb curls are going to have a very low plateau.
>>77253349Post wrists
>>77253442>You can create muscle even if youre literally fasting for days.shut the fuck up bitch
>>77253442post body
>>77253442this post is literally ragebait lmao
>>77253442> You can create muscle even if youre literally fasting for daysNope. You cannot gain muscle without a caloric surplus. >you need to be consistent and put in effort.And you need to eat properly to make sure you both have the energy to put in effort and for your body to build muscle. One pound of muslce mass takes about 2800 Calories to grow. If someone wants to gain say 10 lbs of muscle in a year they would need to eat at least a surplus of at least 80 Calories in terms of protein or 20g protein surplus per day at minimum. With other potential energy requirements introduced by training the requirement certain gets higher than that where quite a few people would need at least a 200-300 Calorie surplus to gain muscle. Moreover it's foolish attribute it all to just "train hard bro" while ignoring nuances like iodine requirements for the thyroid to function optimally as well as the general electrolyte balance required for proper functioning. And then you need the cholesterol intake to produce steroids and the time outside in the sun to both stimulate mitochondria with infrared radiation and UV to produce vitamin D needed from that cholesterol. It's certainly more than "just train bro!">In the beginning do the complete opposite, eat at a deficit. Eating a deficit as a beginner is only recommended for fat people. Not all noobies are fat enough to justify cutting as a beginner. The especially scrawny ones need to eat more. There are quite a few "hardgainers" who suddenly stop being "hardgainers" when they increase their nutritional intake. This advice will just make those guys lose muscle mass.
>>77253358Where do you think the extra strength is coming from? Chi cultivation?If you're getting stronger, your muscles are getting bigger. What matters is that you keep training as hard as you can, keep eating your protein and clean carbs, and keep sleeping well. Everything else is faggotry and sophistication. I was a morbidly obese little kid up until high school, lost the weight (315 to 185, keto meme + severe calorie restriction, took about a year) but had basically no muscle mass at all from years of slamming hot pockets and gaming all summers. When I hit my first one plate bench press I was hooting and hollering. When I was slow to hit two plates for reps, I just kept trying to hit it. Now I'm working on three for reps, and there is no frustration when I fall short a session - I'll get there when I get there.The ultimate gains goblin is PESSIMISM
>>77253374back in the day we had a saying, cardio kills gainz
I'm a confirmed medical mystery, 4-5k calories a day is not enough if I'm actively working out to gain mass. If I'm not I physically can't eat that much good anyways. My physical configuration/design specs are just not good, I can't hold the amount of food I need to put in myself in a day to gain any significant weight.
>>77253856no you're not, you're not eating 4k calories a day stop lying
>>77253881Sure am. I eat three meal prep rice n white meat n veggie style meals a day + a number of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I fucking hate it. The moment I stop or stop working out I'll immediately lose 10 pounds or more, but I never go above my current weight either. I have no medical issues or parasites or hormone problems that my doctors are aware of. I'm just an exceedingly weird shaped lanky fuck with an insane metabolism.
>>77253892cool story bro
>>77253856youre just low t
>>77253349I thought the same but it turns out I just wasn't training fucking hard enough and not eating well enough.
