High Metabolism

[Chromos]

I rip through large amounts of calories every day and have an extremely hard time gaining weight. A personal trainer put me on a 5000 kcal a day diet for the whole summer and I only gained like 2 pounds. I'm a competitive swimmer. I weightlift every day, and have two swim practices each day. Each last about 2.5 hours long.

I weigh 135 lbs, I'm 5 foot 8.5 inches, and I have about 3-5% body fat.

I wanna gain maybe 10 or so pounds and maintain a healthy body fat. Anyone have any ideas?

I'll post what I eat and drink every day if you guys need me to.

[anfeyd]

Just have to eat more or exercise less, the former probably the more realistic choice if you're competing. Sometimes 5000kcals just isn't enough.

[Chromos]

Ah man. My life is going to be pretty fun then. During that summer I had to stay up pretty late each night just to get all the required food down. Haha. :]

[anfeyd]

I don't see how really, you're not going to be able to eat all clean food with that high of an intake so getting in your calories should be fairly simple.

[Anima]

No way can you eat 5000 kcals a day and only be 135 lbs.

[AndyLeTerrible]

Search for calorie rich, non-filling foods and it'll be easy as pie

[Miojo]

Fuckk.. I really wanna put weight on aswell haha

[Chromos]

No way can you eat 5000 kcals a day and only be 135 lbs.

I swim for 5 hours every day. And I'm collegic level more or less. 2.5 hours of sprinting and trying as hard as I can in one of the most physically demanding sports there is...burns a lot of calories. Haha. And then I weightlift after. :dead:

[Lees Dragon]

if what you say is true I have but one thing to say:









HARD......CORE! :good:

[TBoyd]

You'd be a bit dead if your bf was 3-5%.

If you're swimming 5 hours a day, you need a SHIT ton of calories. Keep eating until you gain. Gorge yourself on pizza, pies, cheese, milk, etc.

[TKD_Andy]

haha please god tell me you're not wondering why you're not putting on weight if you're swimming that much.

Thats not a high metabolism, thats just ALOT of exercise.

[n3m3s1s]

Well, if you swim everyday AND lift everyday, why dont you try to lift 3 days a week and eat shitloads of food?

[Swartz]

Follow the Michael Phelps diet.

[Steve]

Has anyone said marijuana and fatty foods yet?

[Caveman]

5 hours of swim training plus weights is a lot of exercise as people have said, up it to 6 or 7 thousand a day and see what happens, try adding whole milk/protein powder/nut butter/oil to blended shakes and you can easily get a large amount of extra kcals.

[Chromos]

Ok guys. Here's what I'm doing. I've brought to school with me today a large heavy bag of GOOD food. I'll be eating a bit every 10-15 minutes throughout the day. Haha


Lol, I'm carring a bag, complete with a full quart of milk, gallon of water, a bag of dry oatmeal, smoothies in water bottles, 2 bananas, 2 apples, 3 bags of protein powder, a protein shake, and 3 baked home-made apple turnovers. WOO.

HARDCORE

[Steve]

So basically a bunch of sugary breakfast shit?

[DarkXacreD]

I'd say you just need to calm down.

[Chromos]

Not sugary breakfast shit. No processed sugars. And I use splenda. :P

[Chromos]

If you look at what michael phelps eats, it's all fat and sugar and caffiene anyway. Haha. :]

[anfeyd]

"Hey guys i'm trying to PACK IN THE CALORIES. Oh yea, I use splenda :wink:"

[Chromos]

"Hey guys i'm trying to PACK IN THE CALORIES. Oh yea, I use splenda :wink:"

It's all we had! :sad:


Imma go grocery shopping after afternoon practice today.


This thread is now about what I should buy at the grocery store.

READY GO

[Swartz]

HARDCORE
Shut up. Now.
If you look at what michael phelps eats, it's all fat and sugar and caffiene anyway. Haha. :]
I wasn't serious you dimwit.

[Martial Way]

whoa, pancreas overload, mines going into shock just listening to this sugar abusiveness, lol.

[Kid Knuckles]

I'll have a double quarter pounder with cheese
super sized fries
chocolate milk shake
apple pie



and a diet coke

[utens]

Hey cromos .. I swim too .. It's the most distructive sport, if done agonistically .. every training ,you almost spit your soul out of your body ... ;) .. this is only my third year of agonistically swim .. (i'm not pro, and I'l never be )my times are :
- 50 m freestyle : 0:28"
-100 m freestyle 1':03"

what are yours?? I'm curios.. I think you make something like 0:24" in 50 m freestyle ... I'm right?

[Churoflip]

I was also a swimmer but i stopped training like 2 years ago
this were my best times

50 freestyle : 0:28
100 freestyle: 1min 05"

[Chromos]

Look me up on www.swimconnection.com

My 50 yard freestyle time is like a 24.30, my 100 yard breaststroke is a 1:01.70 and my 100 yard butterfly is 56.00.

Also, my 500 yard freestyle is 4:59. ;D

[Origional]

Peanut butter has about 100kcal a tablespoon. I use this when I need some quick calories. Then again, as a FFB I rarely need extra calories.

Im not telling you to eat 50 tablespoons of peanut butter, but try to look for calorie dense foods that are easy to eat.

[Skippy]

If I were you I'd up my carb intake hugely if you're that active, and carry round some peanut butter covered pancakes in a lunch box haha.

If you're on 5000 a day now, add in another 1500 with carbs. This will be easy as nuts to get in from peanut butter and pancakes.

[zambri]

harverys triple bacon cheeseburger. i had 2 day for about a week along with regular meals and snacks. gained 8 pounds in a just under 10 days.

im talking about full combo with fries and a milkshake. twice a day for 9 days.

just thought i would put the edit in.

[Chromos]

Peanut butter! Shit, why didn't I think of that earlier? I love peanut butter!

[AndyLeTerrible]

My metabolism seems to be on a flat-out high speed burn

[Lees Dragon]

Nice avatar Andy.

[Vincent_Lee]

If you want extra Kcal, eats nuts, like pecan or pistachios, or walnuts.
Great for calories. I found that a pack of walnuts containing about 4-500grams is 2850Kcals/100g

[Chromos]

Ok, so I need to eat nuts. Question is, should they be salted or unsalted? :o

[Tocowujo]

If you're going to be ingesting massive amounts of them i'd stick with unsalted. I don't normally bother with sodium levels myself, but then again i can't imagine trying to maintain a 7000kcal diet

[Origional]

Do you have to weight lift every day? If not, then cutting back may be a good idea.

[paulSA]

Up your good fats and as mentioned before carbs...

50 flaxseed oil a day = 450cal
1 cup of saltanas = 390 cal
100g cashew nuts raw = 586 cal
175g pack of flavoured pretzels = 650 cal

these are pretty much averages but they should be similar in calories everywhere.

total for these 4 foods would be around 2000 calories extra for your daily intake. Drink shit loads of water. good luck

[AndyLeTerrible]

Nice avatar Andy.haha thank you, it's Patricia Araujo, in case you'd like to know this information

[Lees Dragon]

She's saucy! :punched:

[MasterSword]

swimmers unite!!! :)