How much should I workout to gain 10 pounds of muscle a month?

[Thomas_Shelby]

I’ve recently taken in interest in boxing and MMA, and I think that I might be really good at it.

The problem is I’m a 17 year old male, weighing 160 pounds with roughly 20-22% body fat. I don’t care about being ripped as I’m having a super low body fat, I just want to get big/strong as fast as possible so I can maybe start training for boxing. Because I know having good reflexes and stamina is important and all, but first I’ll need to pack on some muscle before I get into technique and actual training.

I plan on purchasing a punching bag in the near future, but in the meantime I want to gain a lot of muscle.

To any experienced people out there; how much meat/protein should I eat in a day and how often should I workout, and how should I workout?(I don’t have a gym to go to so I’m primarily focusing on body weight exercises for now). I have a pull up bar at my home.

some other stats: I can do about 25-30 pushups (where my chest touches the ground) max.
I can do about 5 pull ups max.

I feel like I’m pretty weak but I know I have a very good frame for putting on weight because my chest is very broad and I don't know I just look

like I’m strong when I’m really not if you get what I mean.


Also I’m thinking of taking a photo of myself to compare how the visual changes as I get stronger, and if it might give people the idea of how my skeletal frame is. I know it’s cringey, but I think it’d be kind of cool to see the progress.

[MrNameless]

No fucking way are you going to gain 10lbs of muscle a month lol. The most you can do is 2lbs a month and that's if you are a beginner.

Don't do crazy bulks. You'll end up gaining way more fat than muscle and when you start losing all that fat again its going to be diminishing returns.

Join a gym and get on some beginner programs that focus on full body workouts 3x a week with or even a push/pull routine with barbell and dumbell weights.

I'd probably just try to eat enough to maintain your weight so you can gain some muscle and potentially lose fat in the same time every month.. or increase your calorie intake no more than 500 above maintenance.

[Asirea]

The art of dirty bulking my friend. Eat everything and anything you see, regardless healthy or not. But, make sure your protein source is lean and healthy. Start with Chicken breast and Salmon, or 93/7 ground beef. Next important step is to go to gym and start lifting HEAVY. Calisthenic won't get you gainz bro, you need heavy weight to shock your muscles to stimulate further breakage and growth. For exercise varities, i would recommend you watching Jeremy Ethier on YouTube, he is superb on explaining exercises techniques and forms for literally every body part.

[Thomas_Shelby]

How does consuming a bunch of food that may not be healthy helpful for building muscle?

[Asirea]

Gaining muscle is actually not complicated at all man. Let's say your workouts are effective, but you consume bare minimum calories to sustain your belly (under or about 2,000 calories a day) then you will be consider calorie deficit, which will make you more lean and cut (usually implemented when people are finished with their bulking, trying to get lean and get more toned). But, since you said you want to gain as fast as possible. The ONLY way is to eat a crap ton of food to the point you're stuffed or beyond stuffed, so your body will have enough calories to burn throughout the day and will not burn your muscle gains instead. When our body feels hungry, the source that will be targeted first is our muscle fiber, as it is the most healthy and nutritious part. Therefore, to maintain and bulk more muscle you just gotta eat more man... Try use the app MyFitnessPal to track your macros, as it will also give you an idea as to how much calories you should be eating to achieve your goal.

[nerms123]

It takes years to gain that much muscle. Drink whole milk all the time.

[Thomas_Shelby]

That’s what I’m afraid of, but I’m wondering if just working a lot and eating a lot would get me close to something of my goal

[nerms123]

It will definitely help for sure

[Sevenpointfive]

the only way to build muscle is to tear it and repair it. in order to do that you need to work out and eat heavily. it's not cheap. bulking up is easy if you have the means. but without a gym you're going to have to improvise the exercises that you need to do so. you can find a lot of discount weights at places like goodwill, but you can also manufacture your own by attaching a couple of heavy rocks to a thick stick. a metal pipe and two buckets of cement work just as well. you'll have to get creative to pull this off, but it's not impossible once you've established a routine. the food will be the most expensive part of it.

[gym4ever]

Haha nice joke, 10pounds a month is impossible unless you are genetic freak or on steroids.
Maybe there is one possible way.
If you are completly nob that never went to gym you can:

1. Get proffesional gym coach
2. Take 200-300g protein each day
3. Take 20-30g creatin
4. Overdose with glutamine
5. Drink beta alanine all day long
6. Dont do any possible cardio
7. Eat 10k kcal a day
8. Super overdose with bcaa so you can train 2x a day heavy
9. Take preworkout so you can push ur self to limits
And then maybe ull gain 10pounds of muscle in a month.

So you can chose between taking steroids and fucking up ur life or 100% fucking up your body with all i wrote xd

[Thomas_Shelby]

Jesus

[Redstang88]

With just body weight exercises you’d be very lucky to put on 10lbs a year. Even with weights 15-20lbs a year is a LOT

You’re looking at this all wrong, focus on skills and athleticism, you can bulk up later.

[Anonymous]

Don't think you can unless you take steroids the limit is like 2 or 3 pounds a month.

[Anonymous]

Unless you’re a noob
You can gain more than that your first years of training.

[bannacookies]

No way in a month in a healthy way.