GOMAD is for super skinny guys. Those are guys that are naturally with VERY LOW appetite. So this approach would give them enough calroies to have energy for their workouts and recovery. So in a sense this apporach would bring them to normal levels of calories (super skinny guys chronically undereat).

But again, fat is fat. The goal should be not to gain weight or fat, but to gain muscle by getting stronger.

It is a mistake to think that you can gain MUSCULAR weight quickly. For muscle you need strength and to get this trength you need to pass through all the weight increments between your current working weights and the ones needed so that you areas big as you desire. And this takes time, Because (this is just an example) you need to go from 100 pounds, through 105, 110, 115… and so on until 200lbs

To answer your question – focus on getting stronger and don’t expect food to grow you muscles. Effort will.

Is it possible to get the best of both worlds, moderate consumption of calories and protein with heavy weight work to add more lean muscle tissue but less fat?

I do not want to get huge, but I would like to bulk up slightly but in a healthy way, and I never liked the pig at a trough approach.. The gallon of milk idea sounded extreme, but I see so many people on the Internet swearing by it.

Thanks

well hopefully you haven’t gained too many new fat cells. Just start decreasing the food you eat. If you were naturally lean, it will be easy for you to start eating the way you ate when you were slim.

To gain muscle – you need to get stronger on a progressive overload program.

Cheers,

Yavor

I am glad you came to your senses. Don’t ruin your proportions. The way to look good is to NOT get a bigger waist but only bigger shoulders. The way to achieve this is to get your basic strength up, then follow up with bodybuilding stuff (if necessary)

But don’t get fat, that will ruin your proportions (shoulder to waist ration) and your face and neck will look like crap.

Yavor

I tried this accidentally for a couple of weeks. I was eating a ton. I got bigger, but mostly fatter, gaining around 5 pounds. Gain 4# of fat for every 1# of muscle? I don’t thinks so.

You can email me from the contact page.

intermittent fasting works. Feel free to ask questions etc. I will right a post soon with tips that I have come up with to do the fasting easier.

Yavor

You can do it buddy!

Yavor

Just thought I’d throw that out there.

Stay cool,

Yavor

I read an interview that Tom Venuto did with Hugo Rivera and Hugo talked about always staying at a lean bodyfat. He said basically that ‘getting fat in the off season and then slimming down is not bodybuilding.’ Who wants to put their body through those kind of weight swings anyway? Get lean, then build muscle while staying lean!