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Is it possible to gain weight / mass with just US$50 per month?

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If the plates are bigger you need more effort to stabilize them.

You could start doing military presses until you get used to the weight inertias.

Do a conscious effort to squeeze harder and leverage the muscular irradiation effect.

You could also try the "hook grip" and see if it helps, if you have never used it problably won't, but you never know until you do it.
 
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Mark Rippetoe, author of Starting Strength, recommends a gallon of milk a day for those wanting to gain weight. If you did this 5 days a week on top of regular meals, you would definitely gain weight.

That could also potentially make you sick.
 

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I've a question. Recently, I bought a gym bench and dumbells for my home, so I can do dumbell bench presses without going to the gym.

The dumbells are adjustable, and the size of the plates are all large sizes in terms of diameter. Imagine those plates on the squat rack fitted onto a dumbell handle lol

Funny thing is, at the public gym, I can get the 44 lbs dumbell (20 KG each) into position and then lie back to do the press.

However, at my home, I can't for the life of me even carry up the 44 lbs dumbells into position. Because of this, I'm stuck at 37 lbs (17 KG) per dumbell.

Is this due to the size of the plates? (larger plates = more difficult even though weight is same)

I'm still thinking of how to progress to 44 lbs.
I've had the same experience, at two different homes now. I've used both solid dumbbells and Bowflex SelectTech at home versus the regular rubberized dumbbells at the gym - both hex and plate style. For me, I just lift more at the gym. I think there is some psychological factor to being in a big work room with bigger guys, chicks, and a lot of steel and machinery everywhere versus working out at home where you are comfortable, you have your bed and furniture in close proximity, etc. I've always chalked it up to some psychological factor - our monkey brain.
 

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Mark Rippetoe, author of Starting Strength, recommends a gallon of milk a day for those wanting to gain weight. If you did this 5 days a week on top of regular meals, you would definitely gain weight.

I did this for a while, and while it did feel great to have my numbers rise so fast in the lifts, it won't be sustainable if you care at all about your body composition. Rippetoe is not one that focuses on aesthetics, so if you do, you should probably find other sources to pull information from.
 
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I did this for a while, and while it did feel great to have my numbers rise so fast in the lifts, it won't be sustainable if you care at all about your body composition. Rippetoe is not one that focuses on aesthetics, so if you do, you should probably find other sources to pull information from.

Its great if you want to look like a t rex
 

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Its great if you want to look like a t rex
:rofl: Starting Strength or GOMAD? I can confirm (not from personal experience, thank god) that if you stick with SS there is a chance you will look like a Centaur... BUT you'd be pretty strong!
 

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That could also potentially make you sick.

Milk is very bad for some people's (or most) skin. It causes lots of acne for one thing.
I feel it's better to combine milk with protein powder and peanut butter.

Rippetoe is not one that focuses on aesthetics, so if you do, you should probably find other sources to pull information from.

Not a fan of Rippletoe's body shape and aesthetics:

Jgqmr.jpg

(if you didn't know this is Rippletoe, you would have thought it's some dad who eats fries and burgers and downs ice-cream soda 4 times a day while watching football and never leaves the couch)

Yes, the guy's strong, but I remember Gary Halbert (the king of copywriting) said in one of his letters to his son, that a guy should have a lean body (or something, can't remember), and not a hulky bulky type of body. I assume he means the body of Captain America/Spiderman/Deadpool rather than Hulk or Juggernaut.

I think there is some psychological factor to being in a big work room with bigger guys, chicks, and a lot of steel and machinery everywhere versus working out at home where you are comfortable, you have your bed and furniture in close proximity, etc. I've always chalked it up to some psychological factor - our monkey brain.

Maybe! I kinda wonder if it's a bad decision buying those plates and dumbells to use at home. As I stay in a high-rise apartment, sometimes when I put the dumbells down (very softly btw), the neighbour below me would use a pole to knock up my floor from below to "hint" me to "ssshhhhh....."

Maybe I should have gone to the gym instead. Or I suspect the weights at the gym are probably lighter despite what it states.

Recently, I think I overtrain (2 continuous days of training till failure).
Result: Felt very washed out and ultra lethargic the next day, similar to those feverish feeling. Takes almost 5 full days of rest to recover.
 
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I did this for a while, and while it did feel great to have my numbers rise so fast in the lifts, it won't be sustainable if you care at all about your body composition. Rippetoe is not one that focuses on aesthetics, so if you do, you should probably find other sources to pull information from.

I agree completely. The OP said he wanted a dad bod. I feel like SS is the perfect program for that haha. Old man strength without the aesthetic physique.
 

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Milk is very bad for some people's (or most) skin. It causes lots of acne for one thing.
I feel it's better to combine milk with protein powder and peanut butter.



Not a fan of Rippletoe's body shape and aesthetics:

Jgqmr.jpg

(if you didn't know this is Rippletoe, you would have thought it's some dad who eats fries and burgers and downs ice-cream soda 4 times a day while watching football and never leaves the couch)

Yes, the guy's strong, but I remember Gary Halbert (the king of copywriting) said in one of his letters to his son, that a guy should have a lean body (or something, can't remember), and not a hulky bulky type of body. I assume he means the body of Captain America/Spiderman/Deadpool rather than Hulk or Juggernaut.



Maybe! I kinda wonder if it's a bad decision buying those plates and dumbells to use at home. As I stay in a high-rise apartment, sometimes when I put the dumbells down (very softly btw), the neighbour below me would use a pole to knock up my floor from below to "hint" me to "ssshhhhh....."

Maybe I should have gone to the gym instead. Or I suspect the weights at the gym are probably lighter despite what it states.

Recently, I think I overtrain (2 continuous days of training till failure).
Result: Felt very washed out and ultra lethargic the next day, similar to those feverish feeling. Takes almost 5 full days of rest to recover.
Yep, Rippetoe definitely doesn't care for aesthetics.

I will say that Starting Strength is a well-respected book for understanding how to perform the big lifts. He breaks it down for complete beginners, and it can help them feel more at ease when they perform them (instead of being scared of getting injured).
 
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Yep, Rippetoe definitely doesn't care for aesthetics.

I will say that Starting Strength is a well-respected book for understanding how to perform the big lifts. He breaks it down for complete beginners, and it can help them feel more at ease when they perform them (instead of being scared of getting injured).
Absolutely.

If you notice, most of Rippetoe's protocols are very simple. Perhaps in some cases too simple. Like: want to gain weight? Drink a lot of milk. Want to get get strong? Do these three lifts and add weight. Got a bad back? Deadlift.

Not that these are bad pieces of advice but very simple and not for everyone.

When I did starting strength I was very happy with the progress I made in the lifts and the my mastery of them. But you get to a point doing it where you get bored and the gains you make in your physique leave some thing to be desired.
 

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Yes, the guy's strong, but I remember Gary Halbert (the king of copywriting) said in one of his letters to his son, that a guy should have a lean body (or something, can't remember), and not a hulky bulky type of body. I assume he means the body of Captain America/Spiderman/Deadpool rather than Hulk or Juggernaut.

Like how Daniel Craig looks in James Bond?
 

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Ok, I found a solution to the problem I described in Post #53: O/T: Health - Is it possible to gain weight / mass with just US$50 per month?

What I did was to load one end of the dumbell with a large 22-lbs plate, and on the other hand, a 11-lbs plate + a series of small weights to make the total dumbell 44 lbs!

And now I can get it off the ground onto my chest! Maybe it's some weird law of physics at play lol
 

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