If you wanna be big you’ve gotta eat.
5000 calories is a standby, and even that’s not particularly high calorie.
What you do for training, the specifics don’t matter much, as long as you eat.
You may require 7000 or 8000 calories for a period.
So be it.
For three to three and a half months at 17 years old I drank 10-12 gallons of milk a week, the better part of a frozen pizza most days, a bunch of breaded chicken and ground beef, plus whatever meals my mom made – ALL OF THEM, and some days another meal (or two) at my aunt’s.
I’ve run numbers – I was at 7500+ calories daily during that period.
It was about four eating periods each day, not meals, eating periods.
On more than one occasion I’d have a meal at my aunt’s, go home, eat something I made, then eat what my mom was making all in a period of about an hour.
My mom would wonder if something was wrong if I only had one serving of something.
You want to be big – put down 5000 or more calories daily.
It’s pretty simple, especially when the food sources are not clean, but still getting enough nutrition.
A gallon of milk and a frozen pizza gets you near to 5000 calories for about seven bucks.
2400 calories of top ramen is about $1, $1.50.
Ground beef is a standby.
It’s not expensive, nor challenging to get down this much.
Dinner the other night was 1lb of 80/20 ground beef, with two packs of ramen, some corn and peas thrown in by eye ball, and probably 8-10oz of shredded cheese in a stir fry.
It’s not much when you can put down some food.
Feast and you won’t be small.
You’ve gotta eat enough to be the size you want.
5000 calories to me is about maintenance.
I’ve done it for so long. 5000 only sounds big if you eat like a pigeon.
A lot of dudes do!
The teenager making a point to have a scoop of two of chocolate whey post workout?
He’d be better off with a cooler of food, a fast food run, or anything with some protein and far more calories.
You may laugh, but a stack of pb&js with a quart or half gallon of milk is really a better choice for someone wanting to get bigger.
Frozen pizza works for bulk, and is decent on a budget.
You couldn’t outspend even the lowest of food budgets crock potting loads of chicken thigh or leg quarters as your primary bulk food.
The quality of food in 2021 may not be that of my grandfather’s as a young man, but the sheer quantity means it’s a whole lot more common for people to build bulk now.
My grandfather got big for high school football on an extra dozen eggs, cantaloupe, loaf of bread, and a bunch of milk each day in addition to the provided meals.
I got to put a frozen pizza in the oven, breaded chicken in the microwave, and take gallon after gallon of milk out of the fridge.
My grandfather had to put in more effort to get past 220 than I did.
The readily available-ness of food is hugely in my favor.
That’s how obesity exists.
You can’t gain muscular bodyweight?
The 400lber at walmart sure ain’t struggling to be that size.
Eat more!