GOMAD question..

[jhwillner]

do you have to be Skinny to do gomad... age: 18.. height is 5,7.. weight is 158.. don't look skinny.. but would like to put on some more Muscle Mass / size..

[Bazza20]

There is nothing special about GOMAD it is just an easy way of getting in extra calories for those people who struggle to gain weight. For most people it will be far too many calories over maintenance and lead to a lot of fat gain and your probably going to be better off getting your calories from a wider range of food sources anyway.

[tzanghi]

do you have to be Skinny to do gomad

Nope.

[williamlexcrawford]

Read this, if after that you can't figure out what you need to do, no one can help you.

[Corrie]

Read this, if after that you can't figure out what you need to do, no one can help you.

He made about 7 topics asking the same stupid shit. I don't think any amount of reading is going to help him.

[Squeen]

Read this, if after that you can't figure out what you need to do, no one can help you.

He does emphatically state that YNDTP if a number of variables are not met. Rip does state somewhere in there that these are results for a male. Does he have a similar article addressing females?

[veryhrm]

That's actually one of the variables. If you're not male, YNDTP. F2M is ok, but only post-op. (likewise m2f is ok, but only before any physical treatment)

Anyway, in PP Rip says just do the same program. There's been some discussion you may have seen about how women have a flatter rep-response curve i.e. their difference between 1RM and 3RM and 5RM is smaller than for guys but that's about it. There's also some speculation in some threads around here (or in the Q&A) that some women may sometimes do better w/ sets of 3 than sets of 5 but i don't remember when or why.

[Squeen]

That's actually one of the variables. If you're not male, YNDTP. F2M is ok, but only post-op. (likewise m2f is ok, but only before any physical treatment)

Anyway, in PP Rip says just do the same program. There's been some discussion you may have seen about how women have a flatter rep-response curve i.e. their difference between 1RM and 3RM and 5RM is smaller than for guys but that's about it. There's also some speculation in some threads around here (or in the Q&A) that some women may sometimes do better w/ sets of 3 than sets of 5 but i don't remember when or why.

Thanks. I'll have to keep following threads. I haven't been around the forum long enough to have read everything yet.

[Simma Park]

He does emphatically state that YNDTP if a number of variables are not met. Rip does state somewhere in there that these are results for a male. Does he have a similar article addressing females?

I've never had problems getting plenty of calories from food, but many women who have tried the milk report that it doesn't really have the same benefits for them.

Though I don't know anything about your diet, I will say that something like 90% of women who start lifting need to just consume more foods that are protein-rich (more protein-rich than milk). So unless you're eating slabs of meat regularly, I'd recommend doing that over using milk as a calorie supplement.

If you enjoy milk, on the other hand, you can certainly afford a few glasses of it a day, given your body composition. But I wouldn't recommend you rely on it to do what it does for the guys. Putting on lean mass is usually a slower, harder slog for women, so eating high-quality, high-protein food overall is a wiser strategy for us.