Need Advice on Bulking (GYMGOERS GTFIH)

[Organ]

19 years old, 5'10, 142 lbs. Fairly lean but I just don’t carry much muscle. Genetically store a lot of fat in my face, which made me scared to bulk for a long time.

However, I recently did 3 sessions of Lipo Vela and my face has leaned out a lot more. Finally feel like I can gain weight without the face getting too puffy.

Also diagnosed with HGH deficiency when I was younger (was on prescribed HGH from 11-14). Makes it harder for me to put on muscle now.

Spoiler: 1 Month Ago

Spoiler: Now

Spoiler: Current Routine

Upper/Lower 6x a week
3,037 calories (185P / 352C / 105F)
Sleeping ~8 hours most nights
Not interested in test right now

Thoughts on running tesamorelin?

Open to any other advice on training, food, or recovery.

 

[Dnag]

19 years old, 5'10, 142 lbs. Fairly lean but I just don’t carry much muscle. Genetically store a lot of fat in my face, which made me scared to bulk for a long time.

However, I recently did 3 sessions of Lipo Vela and my face has leaned out a lot more. Finally feel like I can gain weight without the face getting too puffy.

Also diagnosed with HGH deficiency when I was younger (was on prescribed HGH from 11-14). Makes it harder for me to put on muscle now.

Spoiler: 1 Month Ago

Spoiler: Now

Spoiler: Current Routine

Upper/Lower 6x a week
3,037 calories (185P / 352C / 105F)
Sleeping ~8 hours most nights
Not interested in test right now

Thoughts on running tesamorelin?

Open to any other advice on training, food, or recovery.

I don’t see a difference

 

[sirmimbing]

Bulk, but do it conservatively. Gaining something like 1-2lbs a month seems to be plenty according to recent scientific evidence, which means eating just 100-300 calories above your maintenance or so.

Regarding training your actual split doesn't matter at all. UL 6x a week sounds kinda stupid to me unless you want absolutely gigantic legs. You generally wanna get in a lot of volume but keep each set close to failure and done in as fresh of a state as possible. That means having a more flexible split like some sort of full body where you train whatever muscle group you need to train each day, or a PPL (to get in more upper body volume) makes more sense.

The idea is that you might grow best from say 12-20+ sets of each muscle group a week, but to maximize looks you generally want your shoulders, back, upper chest and arms to be biggest - not get a fat pair of legs that gives you more of an X taper rather than a V taper. So logically it would then make sense to give yourself more room to split that upper body volume across (probably 80+ sets) instead of having 3 days for lower body (which might only require 20 or so sets in total to grow).

 

[afghanincel]

why would u bulk in the first? u build muscle in grams so a maintenance is enough no need for a bulk
ur fat intake is way to high go down to 50-60g and replace the kcal with carbs also eat less proteins 1.6-1.8g per kg is enough

 

[Organ]

Bulk, but do it conservatively. Gaining something like 1-2lbs a month seems to be plenty according to recent scientific evidence, which means eating just 100-300 calories above your maintenance or so.

Yeah, I am just gaining 0.5lbs a week.

Regarding training your actual split doesn't matter at all. UL 6x a week sounds kinda stupid to me unless you want absolutely gigantic legs. You generally wanna get in a lot of volume but keep each set close to failure and done in as fresh of a state as possible. That means having a more flexible split like some sort of full body where you train whatever muscle group you need to train each day, or a PPL (to get in more upper body volume) makes more sense.

Yeah might switch to Push Pull with having leg extensions in one day as well as leg curl in another.

The idea is that you might grow best from say 12-20+ sets of each muscle group a week, but to maximize looks you generally want your shoulders, back, upper chest and arms to be biggest - not get a fat pair of legs that gives you more of an X taper rather than a V taper. So logically it would then make sense to give yourself more room to split that upper body volume across (probably 80+ sets) instead of having 3 days for lower body (which might only require 20 or so sets in total to grow).

Okok. Thankyou so much for the advice boyo

 

[Organ]

why would u bulk in the first? u build muscle in grams so a maintenance is enough no need for a bulk
ur fat intake is way to high go down to 50-60g and replace the kcal with carbs also eat less proteins 1.6-1.8g per kg is enough

Yeah I am just gaining 0.5lbs a week.

Thanks for the advice brother.

 

[Organ]

19 years old, 5'10, 142 lbs. Fairly lean but I just don’t carry much muscle. Genetically store a lot of fat in my face, which made me scared to bulk for a long time.

However, I recently did 3 sessions of Lipo Vela and my face has leaned out a lot more. Finally feel like I can gain weight without the face getting too puffy.

Also diagnosed with HGH deficiency when I was younger (was on prescribed HGH from 11-14). Makes it harder for me to put on muscle now.

Spoiler: 1 Month Ago

Spoiler: Now

Spoiler: Current Routine

Upper/Lower 6x a week
3,037 calories (185P / 352C / 105F)
Sleeping ~8 hours most nights
Not interested in test right now

Thoughts on running tesamorelin?

Open to any other advice on training, food, or recovery.

Bump? Need thoughts on tesa

 

[sirmimbing]

Yeah, I am just gaining 0.5lbs a week.

Yeah might switch to Push Pull with having leg extensions in one day as well as leg curl in another.

Okok. Thankyou so much for the advice boyo

The key isn't to worry about splits or exercises, it's to train the MUSCLES you wanna train with sufficient volume when you're fresh. That's what your split is supposed to accomplish. For more info on that I'd recommend watching Dr Eric Helms, Revive Stronger and Data Driven Strength. Plenty of good podcasts out there (especially from Revive Stronger) on this kinda stuff.