| Can You Gain Muscle on One Meal a Day? |
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Invictica
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why would you want to only eat one meal. Eatting is so awesome. I pretty much only lift, so i can get hungrier and eat more. Eatting is soooooo tasty. |
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MAF14
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CT stated that current studies show that there is no difference in body composition due to eating more or less meals per day |
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K2000
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MAF14 wrote:
CT stated that current studies show that there is no difference in body composition due to eating more or less meals per day
I think that study is comparing the difference between 3 meals and 6 meals, not 3 meals and 1 meal. Also, that's just one study. I'd also be curious to know how long it lasted, and whether the subjects were bodybuilders.
I checked out the website of that Intermittent Fasting guy. He looks pretty good (physique somewhere between Brad Pitt and a natural bodybuilder) but his clients results don't impress me... at best, they look athletic. Is that the goal here... to look athletic?
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Deorum
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i think you guys are really dismissing this idea too quickly. i think its a really interesting question. mabey one meal is a little unreasonable but the idea that there may be mass gaining effects from consolidating meals isnt that far fetched. |
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alit4
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yes you can. is it optimal? definately not. sitting down to a 3-4000 calorie 2-3 hour long feasting session at the end of a day of almost no food, great fun. |
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silkyhorse
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The body can't possibly process more than 40, maybe 50g of protein from each meal, so i'm saying that unless your body can use up 200g of protein and other nutritions from your "one meal a day", you won't achieve any gains. Neither for strength nor size. |
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matko5
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silkyhorse wrote:
The body can't possibly process more than 40, maybe 50g of protein from each meal, so i'm saying that unless your body can use up 200g of protein and other nutritions from your "one meal a day", you won't achieve any gains. Neither for strength nor size.
I'm sure it can process it, just not absorb it right away. |
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elnyka
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Deorum wrote:
i think you guys are really dismissing this idea too quickly. i think its a really interesting question. mabey one meal is a little unreasonable but the idea that there may be mass gaining effects from consolidating meals isnt that far fetched.
The idea (1 big-ass meal a day to get big with muscle) is not a little unreasonable. It's completely unreasonable, and that's why it should be dismissed as quickly as possible.
I know people are capable of developing tremendous physical qualities while restrained with one large meal a day. A typical burly farmer in a 3rd world country might only have a mega-ass breakfast (or lunch) with nothing else but little snacks and coffee (or tea) and be an animal.
But to get big (as in muscular and not just as in Cartman-meets-Weight-Gain-4000), that just doesn't jive at all. One would have to be a genetic anomaly to get that shit to work for that specific purpose. |
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silkyhorse
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matko5 wrote:
silkyhorse wrote:
The body can't possibly process more than 40, maybe 50g of protein from each meal, so i'm saying that unless your body can use up 200g of protein and other nutritions from your "one meal a day", you won't achieve any gains. Neither for strength nor size.
I'm sure it can process it, just not absorb it right away.
Nope, it actually just gets rid of the protein from the body.
But i don't know, i just asked my friend who is working in the health store. |
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jake_j_m
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elnyka wrote:
Deorum wrote:
i think you guys are really dismissing this idea too quickly. i think its a really interesting question. mabey one meal is a little unreasonable but the idea that there may be mass gaining effects from consolidating meals isnt that far fetched.
The idea (1 big-ass meal a day to get big with muscle) is not a little unreasonable. It's completely unreasonable, and that's why it should be dismissed as quickly as possible.
I know people are capable of developing tremendous physical qualities while restrained with one large meal a day. A typical burly farmer in a 3rd world country might only have a mega-ass breakfast (or lunch) with nothing else but little snacks and coffee (or tea) and be an animal.
But to get big (as in muscular and not just as in Cartman-meets-Weight-Gain-4000), that just doesn't jive at all. One would have to be a genetic anomaly to get that shit to work for that specific purpose.
+1, just because a few people can do things a certain way, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
I would personally struggle like hell to eat above 1500 or so calories in a sitting, even with a shake as part of it, and thats consideribly below half of what i need.
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Ghost22
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silkyhorse wrote:
matko5 wrote:
silkyhorse wrote:
The body can't possibly process more than 40, maybe 50g of protein from each meal, so i'm saying that unless your body can use up 200g of protein and other nutritions from your "one meal a day", you won't achieve any gains. Neither for strength nor size.
I'm sure it can process it, just not absorb it right away.
Nope, it actually just gets rid of the protein from the body.
But i don't know, i just asked my friend who is working in the health store.
Because your friend knows everything about complex metabolic pathways, right?
That nonsense about only absorbing X amount in one sitting is really getting old.
There is probably an upper limit, but most people will never get close. |
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