BodyBuilding is not mathematics I know but those charts are just to see, if you put on X amount on average then you can easily see what one year of training will give you - doesn't matter about what the training even is, in fact the charts do not even need to apply to bodybuilding, they apply if you just want to put on fat but - who in their right mind would do that, lol. Me a few years back when I was 9 St 7 Lbs but not now. I have a little bit of flab round my belly and I am only 10St 12Lbs now but... I sure don't need any more fat! Can always be run off with 4 weeks of cardio, although its damn efficient fat (hard to get rid of which is actually a good thing body-wise, assuming you are not too fat to start with)
OK enough of the bullshit...
I am well on target, heres the full story...
April/May/June 2006 I weighed 133 Pounds! (9 St 7 Lbs). This is the very first time I so much as touched a bar or bell. This is the first time i did a sit up and guess what - I could not even sit up once, now I am no doctor but that is f**king atrocious, just extremely unhealthy... but I kept at it and saw my muscles appearing by the week... I only did 3 months or whatever, maybe less, then I had my appendix out and just never took up the weights again, until now...
August 2006 I had my appendix out and stopped doing weights. I had gone from 133 pounds to 147 pounds in 3 months. IMO if you can go from being a skinny beggar (133 pounds) to 147 pounds in 3 months and see your muscles, feel the strength, need another 5-10-15-20 Kg on the bar etc... you have no worries, all these skinny people - have they ever TRIED to do weights ever in their entire lifetime? I never did! I thought big guys were big because they spent 8 hours a day in the gym... oh what?! My workouts of 6 reps x 3 sets don't even add up to 8 minutes a week nevermind 8 hours a day... it shows how mis-educated I was. I had no clue why or how muscly people got that way! Then you find Whey Protein and it all comes together - EAT LOADS OF WHEY PROTEIN!
So I gained 14 pounds in 3 months, about. I dunno how long I was doing weights for... can't be more than 3 months... this is about 4.5 pounds a month gained - which is not good enough, the "benchmark" so to speak, what I aim for, is 2 lbs a week.
I always considered myself to be a struggler when it comes to gaining weight until I realized I never excersized, or ate enough.
Fast forward to now (June 2008), about 10 days ago I started doing weights again. I could do 2 or 3 reps with the weight I used to do 6 reps with, but didn't take any weight off and overdid it a bit. My arms ached for 4 days - I felt like shit and got a little worried, had a migraine at one point too, I intended to overdo it yeah but only to rip my muscles, not to half nuke them!!
Now, they eventually healed and you know what - even after one workout, I feel stronger.
Now I weigh 10 St 12 Lbs and have put on 2 pounds in the last 7 days, with all things being equal (weighed myself at the same time of day each time)
Every pound counts when you're as thin as me. Currently 5' 10" and 152 lbs.
Lets see where I am in 6 months - without steroids (I don't want a fat neck, or anger!)
If I aim for 152 to 192 lbs in 6 months, thats +40 pounds which is roughly 1.5 pounds a week.
If you read this whole post and want 15 minutes of your life back, tough shit m8.
