FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

i will listen to my body of cource Scott..and taking into considaration and your advise i will act accordingly..
Scott whats a good rate of wheight gain during a growing season is in your book?
dont mind to sacrifice a bit of condition in order to gain maxx fat free muscle but dont want to cross the line too far either and gain unwanted fat..?
( also curius to know in what rate you were gaining back to 2003 whene you reached 260 pounds and the percentage maybe of fat to muscle..?)

The rate will depend an a TON of things: experience, current size, previous breaks from training, hormonal status, GENETICS.

Some people literally can be considered non-responders to resistance training.

I couldn't tell you the ratio of fat to muscle back then. I had for the most part always dropped bout 20-30lb from off-season to contest shape, so I was going by the mirror and previous off-season weight and strength levels.

The kcal you'll need to grow and the ratio of fat /muscle will be something unique to each person.

On the average, in the studies of Bouchard et al. (search my articles at elitefts.com, the gain of FFM / fat with simple overfeeding is about 1:2.

If you can, with training, put on 2 lb FFM for each lb of muscle, this is pretty damn good, IMO.

-S