Muscle gains your first year

[pwr_machine]

How much muscle did you put on your first year training? Please note that I said muscle and not bodyweight.

 

[pwr_machine]

About 7 years, I weighed exactly 162 pounds. I was boxing at the time and not putting much effort into weight training. Shortly thereafter, I made the switch to powerlifting. Within one year, I was up to about 200 pounds. That's 38 pounds of bodyweight in one year. However, I believe only about 20 of these pounds could have been muscle. It's hard for me to believe that some people have put on 30+ pounds of lean body mass. It just doesn't seem physiologically possible in my eyes.

 

[FK1]

In my first year so 6 kilo muscle

 

[FatRat]

I voted 11-20, but it was probably at the lower end of that.

Knowing where you got the inspiration form this thread from, I would say that much higher gains are possible. I started training for sport, with functional strength being the goal, rather than just weight. My participation in sport also meant a calorific deficit was almost inevitable!

I would say that the majority of trainers will be at the lower end of the spectrum, because on the whole, it is not until you are into lifting, that your interest leads to an accumulation of knowledge and experience. Unfortunately, there are very few that have access to experienced and knowledgeable individuals in both training and nutrition right from the outset, if there where, then the weights voted for here could quite easily be much higher.

 

[JollyRogers]

When I first started, I think it was around 30 pounds or so.

 

[Debaser]

170 @ 15% = 144.5 lbs LBM

205 @ 10% = 184.5 lbs LBM

So 40 here. I could have put on 10 lbs more (at least) if I:

1. Didn't spend time cutting
2. Didn't do volume training for the first few months
3. Didn't slack off/lose focus during the year

 

[pwr_machine]

There's definately a wide range of results in everyone's first year. Interesting. Keep them coming.

 

[OreoPL]

i have gained roughly 20 in the first 6 months

 

[Lord_Suston]

none cause I read too many kuscle mag and didn't eat cause I was trying to maintain weight for sports

 

[TheOak84]

Ive gained 20 pounds every year since freshman year

freshman year: 100-120
sophmore year: 120-140
juinor year: 140-160
seinor year to present: 160-175

i wonder when im gonna reach 200

 

[louden_swain]

I typically gained 10lbs per year.

It was hard gaining weight because I was watching my weight for wrestling. . .all gains that I made occurred during the off-season.

 

[overhead]

My first serious year of training was jr year of high school under supervision of our high school strenth coach. That was 14 years ago, so the routine is not fresh in my head, but I seem to remember lots of squats, power cleans etc. I ate everything in site and put on 30 pounds by my senior year. I have no idea how much of that was muscle. I did get a lot stronger. Quit lifting after high school and just started again about 19 months ago. My focus for most of the time was losing weight, so I have no clue how much muscle I gained, probably little. For the past three months I have been eating more and following a commonly argued about routine with a few modifications. I am afraid to even mention the name becuase it seems to just breed nasty arguments . Put on 10 pounds in three months, no change in body fat, caliper tested, no change in waist size. I am sure some of the weight is in fat, but not too much.

 

[pwr_machine]

For the past three months I have been eating more and following a commonly argued about routine with a few modifications. I am afraid to even mention the name becuase it seems to just breed nasty arguments . Put on 10 pounds in three months, no change in body fat, caliper tested, no change in waist size. I am sure some of the weight is in fat, but not too much.

No arguments here! I like the fact that you took a routine and made modifications to make it your own. With experience, your training will always evolve. Keep it up!

 

[harman_2005]

I started about 6 months ago, and have gained 16 lbs of LBM so far. I was lucky because the people that got me started on lifting are both pretty serious and had me lifting right and eating decent right from the start.

 

[BigBadBootyDaddy29]

I started training when I was 13. I did it right from day 1.....I started at the end of 8th grade at a skinny 175lbs, and I was 215 the end of my freshman year in high school....I ate everything in site, I'd make an 1800 calorie weight gainer, then eat a snickers bar and some whole milk, then go to Burger King and drink a milkshake and have french fries, I just ate and ate and ate.....I have no clue what my bodyfat was, but my waist was not any bigger and I appeared to have put on mostly muscle......If I ate like that now I'd be fat as fuck, but at 14 yrs old you can do it.....for any younger guys out there, I advise you to eat everything in site, with your hormones raging the way they are at 13,14,15 yeas old, you are not gonna get fat as long as you train hard, and you'll be glad you took advantage of a time in your life where you will make the most gains possible, and you can literally turn yourself into a denser, more muscular person for the rest of your life.

 

[RusPA81]

I probably had under 10 in my first two years. I was training every muscle everyday and I was shocked as to why I do not grow. Not to mention I knew nothing about diet. My strenght went up a lot though. I started lifting at 14 and benched 125 at 130. When I was 17 I hit 300 at 155 pounds.

 

[louden_swain]

I can tell you this, when I first started training I was 112lbs and I was capable of tripling 86lbs on the bench.

Those were the days. After a year of training, I thought I was the shit for pressing 160lbs for a single.

 

[Zander1983]

Probably none. I did everything wrong.

 

[coolcolj]

pretty close to 20lbs for me

 

[Peckz]

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.

 

[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!