Levi talks about his journey thus far and offers advice to other teenage boys looking to get "big".

Roughly 40# weight gain in 5 months
Focus on your eating
Beef Cake

April - 5'10'' and 120# -  bench press 145#, back squat
August - 5'11'' and 160# - bench press 175#, back squat

I saw the most progress when I started tracking my calories

vitamix blender rocks

my net diary
https://www.mynetdiary.com/

eat the grams in protein for the weight you want to be
I want to be 160#, thus eat 160 grams of protein

Eat for purpose not for entertainment

Accountability - have an app and some friends
Keystone habit
Find your motivation
Track what you eat
Rest at least 2 minutes of rest between sets
5 sets of 10 reps means you'll do 5 individual sessions of 10 continuous reps.  Which can be written 5x10

3 steps to start
1 - Go to the gym every day with a program (levi@crossfitgarage.com)
2 - Log what you eat (don't lie to yourself)
3 - oops I forgot to let him say it apparently




Muscle hypertrophy refers to an increase in muscle mass and cross-sectional area. 

It occurs when muscle protein synthesis exceeds muscle protein breakdown, resulting in positive net protein balance in cumulative periods. This can be achieved through resistance training and protein intake, which stimulates muscle protein synthesis and leads to decreases in muscle protein breakdown

Strength training is used to regulate muscle hypertrophy.

Strength training causes neural and muscular adaptations which increase the capacity of an athlete to exert force through voluntary muscular contraction: After an initial period of neuro-muscular adaptation, the muscle tissue expands by creating sarcomeres and increasing non-contractile elements like sarcoplasmic fluid.

Muscular hypertrophy can be induced by progressive overload (a strategy of progressively increasing resistance or repetitions over successive bouts of exercise to maintain a high level of effort).


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