I'm sure a lot of you have heard of John Berardi. In short, he wrote an article about the subject of this thread. In that article he highlighted how many people don't eat enough and there is even a calculator here http://www.johnberardi.com/updates/july262002/na_masscalculator.htm
I did the calculation and it turns out that to gain mass, I need to eat 3300 calories even though I'm 5"7, 160 lbs at 13% bf. Thats a lot more than the conventional 18*bw (18*160= 2880 kcals). But thats not the main point of this post. The most interesting thing I learned from Berardi is that in order to gain mass and stay as lean as possible, you need to eat meals which don't contain high quantities of both carbs & fat. So you can only eat 2 types of meals, meals high in protein& fat and meals high in carbs & protein. The details are in the 2 part article.
http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_1.htm
http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_2.htm
Should I try this new approach to eating???
I did the calculation and it turns out that to gain mass, I need to eat 3300 calories even though I'm 5"7, 160 lbs at 13% bf. Thats a lot more than the conventional 18*bw (18*160= 2880 kcals). But thats not the main point of this post. The most interesting thing I learned from Berardi is that in order to gain mass and stay as lean as possible, you need to eat meals which don't contain high quantities of both carbs & fat. So you can only eat 2 types of meals, meals high in protein& fat and meals high in carbs & protein. The details are in the 2 part article.
http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_1.htm
http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_2.htm
Should I try this new approach to eating???