Back again!

[blufour]

Well, here it goes.

Some time ago I was interested in doing a cycle to help gain mass and pretty much the entire community in unison screamed "lol learn to eat first, skinny bitch"

So after about 6 months of forcing food down my mouth I finally got used to it and was able to stick to a diet of at least 3-4kcal a day.

After adjusting to that I started drinking shakes and eating a bit more snack food and started to hover around 5kcal a day, and that started to work very well for me.


I started out at 6'2" and 150lbs >.< after 6 months I was up to 165lbs and had not seemed to gain much, if any, fat.




Sorry for the long intro but this is where my nightmare begins. I had been eating roughly 5kcal a day for around 6 months, and I am now weighing in between 190 -195.

I don't want to say that I've hit a "plateau" because I am still quite skinny and that would be silly.

I work as a carpenter framing houses, and love to mountain bike / dirtbike and rock climb in my free time. Is all this extreme cardio holding me back from bulking up?

I am starting to get quite frustrated, and so I've come back to ask if maybe, just maybe, it would be time to consider doing a cycle or two to help gain some mass?

Is my problem that I'm way too active and 5kcal / day is not enough?

Thanks for any serious responses, hoping to not get flamed into the ground again lol

 

[Drako]

What kind of food are you taking in? It's fine saying 5000 kcal but is it 5000kcal of good nutrition or junk food because that have a huge difference in muscle gain.

 

[blufour]

To be perfectly honest I do eat a lot of crap (whole milk, tons of cheese, red meat, peanuts, sausages), it is mostly just higher fat food tho, not junk food. One thing I've noticed; if I miss out on my shakes for a day I'm not hitting my protein goals from my diet alone, but its not a huge deficit.