Eating For Size, Not Instagram!

A lot of guys out there today think that weight lifting is just an excuse for them to have a large pizza and chicken wings every weekend. They love the idea of being the 'big eater'; they can put it on Instagram, impress their friends, and wow their followers with the crazy amount of food they put away in a single sitting. 

The image of the serious bodybuilder, strongman or power lifter sitting at home putting away two boxes of donuts is, in all honesty, a fabrication created for social media. 

It's a gimmick for personal trainers to attract clients - the idea of having a 'cheat day' is particularly attractive to suburban women. They like it almost as much as they like obsessing over squat form. 

If you genuinely want to get big and strong - and not just fat - then you pretty much have to ignore the ridiculous diet advice you'll get from YouTubers, bloggers, and the like. All they want to do is come up with something complicated and different to get views. Their interest in your results is literally 0. 

Eating to get huge is NOT COMPLICATED.

But it is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. 

We follow some really basic principles when trying to pack on some decent mass. Our off-season diets typically look like this:

• Breakfast - Oatmeal, two whole eggs, toast, orange juice
• Lunch - Rice, fish, broccoli, beans
• Snack - Meat or cheese sandwich, glass of milk, nuts
• Dinner - Potatoes, some lean protein source, beans, and greens
• Snack - Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, glass of milk

If your diet consists of potatoes, rice, beans, fish, cheese, nuts, and so on, and you're in a caloric surplus, then you're going to put on size. 

End of story. 

You just have to somehow get the food in you without getting sick and tired of being full all the time. 

You don't need some special, complicated diet to help you get big. But you do need help sticking to it and getting the food eaten. 

That's where we're going to try to help out.