Muscle gains your first year

[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.