Get Big Tomorrow

Written by Fig

This section is how to gain weight, for those who cannot gain even fat. This is not for the majority of folks out there. If you can gain 1-2 pounds a week without going to the extreme, then do not do this program (you’ll get fat!!!). This program is designed for those who can eat 3 whole pizzas a day and not gain a ounce of weight. This is for those of you that weigh 120 or less to 155#s.

I know I have been there and it sucks. But, what ever you do, do not sulk. Remember that you have a fast metabolism and that is a good thing. You might be anywhere from 15-20 years of age right now (heck some even older), the thing is that when your metabolism finally slows down as you get older, those who have it easy will be getting fat. So, in the long run you are winner and not the loser. Stop worrying too much about now and look for the long run. Yes, I’ll get you on the right track.

Like I said before, I had trouble gaining weight. I was a stick. If you view the infamous picture of me from 1988′, you will see that I was at 155-165#s (6′2″s). That was after 2 years of lifting to boot. My arms were around 13″s when I first started. I think my arms were up to 14″s in the picture. I cannot really vouch for arm size then, I was measuring them wrong (measuring them too big). Anyway, I was a stick. look in the dictionary and there was a picture of me a stick. My parents have worse pictures of me and I got to get some more to post.

It wasn’t until I got a job and transportation that I was able to get the means to gain weight. Of course I had to walk back and forth from work for 2 years to buy that POS 1979 Camaro I bought. Nice car, just not reliable. I first started work and there was a competition among the stockman. This was the late 80’s the fitness craze was just beginning (yeah the 70’s was the home of aerobics, but the late 80’s was the start of bodybuilding as we know it now). Everyone was trying to get huge and it was funny. Supplements like Gamma Orazonal (I have no clue what it was, I took it and it did nothing). We did not have creatine. The big supplement was dibencozide (I can’t spell it, but old timers know what I mean). Hot Stuff was the top selling supplement (whoo hoo $50 for 2 weeks). Glorified protein powder is all it was. The stuff worked great until they banned the amino acid L-Carnitine that was in it. Old timers will remember that. The supplement scene was as bad as it ever was. Plant sterols were out (yeah I am a plant). I bought into all that shit. I did and I admit it. None of it did a thing. This is when Twin Lab came out.

A friend of mine Patrick Hines, spoke to me about diet. So, I started to go grocery shopping with him. I knew I was not consuming enough calories. I was thin. I mean I was wearing size 28 pants. Everyone at the store where I worked was bigger than me. I was lean not strong or big by no means. I had a simple goal. My goal was to weigh in at 200 pounds. I thought once I achieved that goal I would be huge or something. I worked out with Arnold’s 3 day split. I trained hard every night. I over trained big time and did not know it. I was just starting out. Everyone goes the same route. I did have dedication. I put in some killer 2 hour workouts at 1am. I was working out at home. I had a pretty good gym set up (bench 250#s in weights, DBs, solo flex for pull ups and dips).

After going to the store with my friend I bought some food. We walked around Xtra supermarkets and red labels. Explain nutrition to me. He said if you want to gain weight you need to eat plenty of carbs, fat, and protein. So, I walked around and bought the items that gave me the most bang for the buck. I bought top raman soups, whole milk, fried chicken, potato salad, and anything else that was high in carbs, fat and what else. If you are not able to gain even fat, then you cannot gain muscle (that is the most true statement).

I then was transferred from produce to the meat department. They had deals on deli food there (free). So, I ate all I could. I ate meatloaf, fried chicken and potato salad. I mean I was eating a good $15 in food a night. I even drank whole pints of heavy cream. I bought a gallon of chocolate milk, candy, cottage cheese and added that to my diet. I would even eat a slice of bread every hour on the hour. I would weigh myself before I started my 6-hour shift and by the time I left I would weigh 5-6 pounds more from just the food weight in my system. That is dedication.

Slowly my strength went up too. I had to unload boxes of meat. I moved 7,000 pounds of meat in 2 hours. My shoulders and arms grew from doing this. Slowly I would start shoulder presses on my break with regular sized pallets (finally working up to pressing a pallet in each hand at one time). After a year, I was able to press a pallet jack over my head (don’t do it if you do not know how to. The jack can come out and hit you in the face.). We had a stockman challenge. The challenge was to climb to the top of the roof 30-foot ladder, without using your feet. I did it.

Slowly after eating everything I could get my hands on or buy, I gained weight. I shot up from 140 to 200 in a year and a half. After a year, I made those who were bigger than me a lot smaller than me. Even at 200 pounds, no one would believe that I weighed that much. They still thought I weighed 180 at the most. I joined a real gym and that really helped. So, I kept up with the eating. My waist grew as well and crept up to 32″s at 200 pounds. I still kept eating and finally hit 230 by the time I went into the Airforce and lost 30 pounds of mass in basic training.

That is my story. It is really simple. You got to eat. Period and I don’t care how much you think you eat now. You have to keep pushing the envelope like I did. Do not go out like a half ass punk want to be bitch.

Lift with a good program and eat. What do you eat? Here is a list of items to buy and to use:

Eat your normal means and add the following:

1. Whole milk = drink 1/2 gallon in a day (3 1/2 gallons of milk for a whole week)

2. Cottage cheese = eat this shit like it is going out of style.

3. Top Raman soups = 1-2 a day

4. Ice cream before bedtime = 1 bowl.

5. Sandwiches with lots of mayo = at least one a day

Eat that with what you normally eat and you will gain weight. I do not care how fast your metabolism is. Keep the foods you eat high in fat. Fried chicken and so on. Potato salad is the king of weight gain. Do not waste you money on weight gainers. Whole milk is just as good. If you need more calories, then eat a slice of white bread every hour on the hour.

the only thing you should be concerned about is calories. Eat until you are full each sitting and try to eat more each sitting than the latter.

Weigh yourself each day. Buy a freaking scale and weigh yourself. Weigh yourself in the morning and at night. Try to gain 3-5 pounds of weight just from food by the end of the day.

Do not get fat. You will gain fat, but don’t get obese. If you have trouble gaining weight, then losing it will be easy. Losing fat has always been easy for me. If you are one who gains weight and has just started off lifting then don’t do this eating program. You will get fat, and will look like shit if you have a normal metabolism.

If you gain extra fat, then just eat like you used to and it will come off. Once you lose it, then go back to eating again. It is that simple.

Another thing about gaining weight is workload. Don’t go to the gym and pound out a 2 hour workout every damn day of the week. You will just burn out. You want to go to the gym just to stimulate the muscles. You do jot want to go and burn those extra calories that you just ate. Keep them gym times down to 1 hour and no more than 4-5 times a week at the most.

Sure at the beginning I was gaining weight just by eating. But I was drinking whole pints of heavy cream (sick). After a few years in the Airforce a buddy of mine showed me a different workout. That workout was a train the body once a week program. That is the best way to gain mass. I was training with Arnold’s 2-3 times a week workout (training the body or shall I say over training the body 3 times a week). When I switched to a train the whole body once a week, I started to grow more easily. I did not have to depend as much on the eating as I had to in the past. So, checkout the workouts sections and give it a try.

Do not buy into the hard gainer philosophy. A hard gainer is one who does not eat enough and that is it. Some of these people out there believe hard gainers are some type of leper or something. Some people say that a hard gainer should not do curls and crap like that. That is just bunk. You just got to get it in your head that your diet is off. Eating more is not a magic cure. But, it is the right way to gain more weight. It may take a year to pack on 10 pounds. But the longer it takes, the more muscle per pound as compared to fat you will gain.