Vince Taylor thrived on three meals a day for most of his career.
At last check, you ain't Vince Taylor. That may, and I stress, MAY be all he needed. But, chances are that won't work for you.
Just as some people who hate cardio scurry around, looking for examples of people who don't need cardio to help them get ripped, you have people who don't want to put down the extra calories, scraping for examples of folks who can grow on a fairly low amount of food.
dude if u need 4,000 cals a day to grow, you've got a problem. eating even 3,000 cals a day of good whole food is a shitload of grub, and it takes a beast to get it down. I need 4,000 cals a day to get fat, not to grow.
I didn't and don't have a problem. In fact, in my college years it took more than 4,000 calories to put size on my frame.
It doesn't take a "beast" to get it down, hence the reason they have these things (from the evil supplement companies
) called PROTEIN SHAKES. Whatever I couldn't eat in regular food, I drank in the form of those shakes, either commercial weight gain powders (when I could afford them) or homemade ones (when I couldn't).
I don't know where you got the idea that someone has a problem, if they need 4,000 calories (or more) to get bigger. All that means is that they are likely of the ectomorphic bend.
and why would u eat if ur not hungry? that makes no sense to me. Why would i stuff my face with food even if im not hungry? that is a recipe for disaster my friend. U have it backwards. Theres only so many nutrients u need to grow, once u get more than that, then its getting stored for a later time which = FAT accumulation.
Your body becomes more efficient at absorbing nutrients (especially when you've been training for a significant period of time). It's similar to when you grow up from a little kid into a teenager. You don't eat the same way you did when you were 5 years old, do you?
As far as the “feeling hungry” thing goes, you can down a bowl of broccoli and celery and consume all of 350 calories (if you’re lucky). Yet, because of the high fiber content, you won’t feel hungry for hours. Does that mean you’ve consume all the nutrients you need to grow? OF COURSE NOT!!
It reminds me of a saying Dorian Yates had, when it came to the subject of "instinctive training". If he trained by "instinct", he'd kick the weights in a corner and urinate on them, instead of half-killing himself trying to lift them.
ur body can only put on so much lean mass at a time, just give it what it needs, because the rest is just going to be cushion, which none of us need.
NOBODY puts on lean mass all the time. That's why bodybuilders have "off-season" and "pre-contest" modes. A lot of people don't make the major gains they seek, because they're so paranoid about putting on a little extra bodyfat.
It's the old Arnold adage about sculpting the slab of granite vs. trying to sculpt a pebble.
learn to listen to your body, then you'll grow. !!!!
I've done that. That's why I know how many meals I need(ed) to eat to get the job done. In my younger (college) years, I ate 4,000 calories per day. That wasn't enough; so I bumped it up to 5,000. That got the ball rolling for a while. I've often told the account on how one spring semester, I went from 189 to 210 lbs. My caloric intake, at that time, was around the 5,500 mark (occasionally jumping over 6,000).
This was the result of "eating" 6 meals per day. "Eating", of course, is a generic word for caloric consumption. At least, half of those calories came from drinking shakes.