That seems very unlikely.I have a pretty high metabolism myself, but even I can't gain more than 1/4lb weekly regardless of how high my surplus is.
I was referring to lean muscle mass built per week. In terms of total weight (including unnecessary fat) per week, I can gain whatever based on the numbers I take. I currently gain at a rate of 0.5lb / weekThat seems very unlikely.
I have a pretty high metabolism myself, but even I can't gain more than 1/4lb weekly regardless of how high my surplus is.
The limiting factor to rate of muscle gain, is not caloric surplus, but rather the interplay between anabolic stimuli, stress and recovery.I was referring to lean muscle mass built per week.
Ah I thought you meant body weight. My mistake.I was referring to lean muscle mass built per week. In terms of total weight (including unnecessary fat) per week, I can gain whatever based on the numbers I take. I currently gain at a rate of 0.5lb / week
Normally with a 1/lb bulk, 1/2 of that is fat, so 0.25lb of muscle. It really depends on how your body metabolizes intake. Just because you up the intake to gain 1-1.5lb a week, doesn't mean more will be lean muscle mass.
Alot of guys ended up doing a 1lb/week bulk and gained 1/4 muscle, 3/4 fat, and thats not ideal, as they would have to spend more time trimming it off when they're in their cutting cycle, and nobody wants to prolong their cut more than they have to.
I have a pretty high metabolism myself, but even I can't gain more than 1/4lb weekly regardless of how high my surplus is.
o, I c.Ah I thought you meant body weight. My mistake.
A novice can gain .5-1.5 pounds per week at normally a favorable muscle to fat ratio even intermediates should be able to do that....even for an advanced lifter it is pretty unproductive to gain less than .5 pounds per week. Now an advanced lifter is almost always going to be competing in a strength sport so weight class becomes a concern but in that case you can gain strength without any movement in bodyweight but of course you will eventually stall out(that goes for intermediates as well....
a rank novice should be able to gain that much in most demo graphs but you are correct henceforth though. That said you have to gain bodyfat to gain even that much muscle so you should aim for .5-1.5 pounds per week. Even on steroids in a bulking phase you will gain bodyfat as well.
no.....when you gain a certain amount of muscle and then cut weight putting that muscle back on is a quicker ordeal to get back that muscle provided programming is good....this is done through the process of the phenomena known as muscle memory
at any rate actual skeletal muscle is very hard to gain and I would say that .5 pounds is about the upper limit of actual skeletal muscle you can grow per week the rest comes from water retention, bone growth, visceral organ growth etc