Take A Cue From 1950s Bodybuilders – Eggs & Milk :
In a time where obesity wasn’t common, where the majority were thin or lean, the build that stood out was the strong bulky one.
That was what those trying to gain size, the 1950s bodybuilders, were going for.
Bulky.
Though far less people went to the gym, the percentage getting results was higher on average.
More of those trying to bulk were able to do so. There was a higher success rate.
A better percentage of 98lb weaklings wanting change got over 200lbs.
What was the difference between now, and those wanting the same 50-70 years ago?
There is more gym access now.
That’s in our favor, in favor of 2020.
Food? Maybe better quality back then, though I’m not convinced, as frankenfoods, margerine, and tv dinners were all coming in style.
It was the start of the postwar food abundance boom. The microwave had been invented.
I’m betting calories were cheap just as they are now.
Then and now are roughly on par for food, the largest pro for 1950 vs 2020 here is that it’s pre 80s, pre 90s, there weren’t a few decades of scare tactics over eggs, bacon, saturated fat, red meat, butter, whole milk, and cholesterol.
Whole milk and eggs are the most cost effective nutrition to be had.
It was the same back then.
They weren’t scared of milk and eggs.
They ate and drank much of both.
That’s the difference.
Hardgainers don’t eat a dozen eggs a day. They don’t drink 10 gallons of milk a week.
Yeah, you may put on fat, but the rapidity of muscle built negates this every time as those unwilling to do this are still in the 160s at 6′, while you made it up to 253 at 17.
Milk is convenient. $3 a gallon tops, and not only in every grocery store, but in every gas station.
A ½ gallon is always at a gas station somewhere, minutes away, to be had for maybe two bucks and a quarter. That’s makes for a very solid meal on the go, assuming you’re not the type to fret macros.
Eggs are like chicken.
Cheap cheap cheap.
Wherever you are $2 a dozen, probably less.
For THE superfood.
At worst costs, a gallon of milk, and a dozen eggs is $5 for 3200 calories, and 200g protein.
That’s a solid base, and for many enough to be the whole diet.
However if bulk is what you’re going for spend a few more dollars a day and get over 5000 calories.
Eat like a 1950s bodybuilder for bulk. They knew what they were doing.
-J