Do genetics have alot to do with muscle growth/strength/mass?!
Question: my dad is a skinny guy, 5'11 170skinny wrists decent muscles. what will work for me to gain muscle mass, i work out everyday, i want to be big someday, would you reccomended eating 2300 calories a day? what else would you reccomend?
btw i am 17 5'11 155
Answers: my dad is a skinny guy, 5'11 170skinny wrists decent muscles. what will work for me to gain muscle mass, i work out everyday, i want to be big someday, would you reccomended eating 2300 calories a day? what else would you reccomend?
btw i am 17 5'11 155
I've been studying the body for 30 years, genetics included and I can tell you genetics plays a big part in how big you will ultimately get. Genetically I missed the height gene in my family because I'm 5'9" and that makes me the shortest male of the last eight in my family. My dad was the shortest of 5 brothers and he was 6'2". All others were 6'4" to 6'10". One played pro basketball for Detroit. They all played basketball in college and I was quite good at it as well. Had I hit 6'9" (like I was hoping for) I would have been retired from pro basketball by now.
They also play a role in how much mass you will or can gain without the use of steroids. Using them is a whole other world in itself. I'm more muscular then my dad ever was, but I'm not steroid huge and won't get that way unless I use them. My bicep measures 16 1/2 and I can pump it to 17 1/4 for a show, but it won't get much bigger then that without roids.
I've been into fitness and diet as long as I've studied the body for the medical procedures I perform on the street. All this at the lowest cellular level and I can tell you that you will get only slightly larger then your genetics are pre set for ( I'm a good example of that) unless you roid up. My shows are all natural shows with the guys divided into age and height brackets so the judges aren't looking for mass that they are in the Ronnie Colman or Jay Cutler type guys although some of the guys are big, what they want to see is, no fat, and muscular development. Show all six in the hams, four majors in the quads, every finger sized muscle in the delts, not just a big chest (for your size) but ripped and serrations in the muscle tissue. The back....loaded with every possible muscle showing. You skin is damn near onion style. Only someone with 3 to 5% body fat will be able to show all that. So the challenge is the right movements, the right form in those, diet is the most important part of it all.
Remember 70% of how you'll look at show time is a result of your diet, 20% from what you've done in the gym (even thought thtat's the hardest part physically) and about 5% use of supplements that work for you. We are tested. You can take anything that's natrually occuring in the body, protein, creatine, L-glutimane, arginane, etc...even natural test supplements.
Getting larger muscles has to do with amount of food in and the intensity of your workout. For me to gain mass I'll eat at the 4500 calorie level for two months, with very intense workouts. When I finish bies and tries I'm so week I can't pick up a pencil. If you don't push the groups your working to exhaustion and allow proper time for rest they won't grow.
A month out of show date I'll drop to 2000 calories a day and start a 12 to 15 rep cycle to really make things show.
Even if your not doing a show (I didn't start out wanting to do that) pick a date three months out and try to really change the way you look by that date.
As far as hight goes, you're still growing, but if you don't have that hight gene in your family history you may get to 6'1". There's many things we can't change on the body and it seems that women want larger breast (it's fat tissue and can't be changed without implants) and guys want larger dicks. Those are two things we can't change with outside help. Most eveything else we can alter naturally.
My nephew is your hight at 5'11' but his weight is at 203 lbs and he's ripped. He's 25. He won't do a show because he's a little shy about being on stage in front of 500 people in a man thong....but that doesn't matter, he's doing it because he like looking good....and yes,,,he fights the women off....lucky him.
Committing yourself to all this is a life style within itself.
There no need to workout every day, unless you doing different groups each day. you need a rest day (a day with no workout) In the gym you tear down (even thought you feel pumped up) rest is the repairing and rebuilding time for the muscle tissue. Food is the fuel for your workouts, don't skimp on that, especially breakfast if you work out in the morning.
These are just a few tips to go on..as a trainer I could break it down even more, but it would take to long to write all that out.
I hope this has helped some.
Charlie c.
No genetics has rarely anything to do with it, some, but very little, it depends on how you yo yourself treats your body.
Protein supplements are the only way to go and get down the gym you will fill out in no time
Genetics are the basic building blocks. They can either make it very simple for you to achieve your goals.. or make you work for them. You can bulk up trust me! but you will have to work a little more than some!
yeah with metabolism and how much muscle you grow like there's this gene mutation called a myostatin gene mutation which limits myostatin which controls muscle growth look it up. still though don't expect results so quick i know by experience time is what it takes. it's like if you did heroine everyday for 5 years then stopped for 1 day then started again that 1 day didn't count for anything. you got to keep at it eat big, lift big, sleep.