how to gain weight and keep cardio up?

dl_buffy wrote: In fact the stronger you can be...at the lightest weight you can be...would make you the better competitor because you are moving less weight total...but with the strength to move the implement.

A better competitor in what?  Not HG.

And if I am wrong then you have destroyed all my hopes and dreams of highland games and I will have nothing left to look forward to......

(no pressure from the guy that gains like 1lb a year....)

There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn't gain weight to save my f**king life.

There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like f**king magic. He'd go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.

I finally asked him one day how he did it.

"You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I'll fill you in."

Now remember, we're at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious shit if we have to go outside, I thought.

So we get outside and he starts talking.

"For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don't care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that shit down and eat. That's your breakfast."

At this point I'm thinking this guy is nuts. But he's completely serious.

"For lunch you're gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don't want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bullshit. I don't care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can't let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter."

"For dinner you're gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don't like sardines, don't put 'em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that f**ker up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that shit over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the shit out of it."

"Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that f**ker. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals."

This guy is in a zen-like state when he's talking about this.

"Now you're on the clock," he continues. "After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you're full. Don't listen to that shit. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I'm telling you now, you're going to get three or four pieces in and you're gonna want to quit. You f**king can't quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.

And if you can't finish it, don't you ever come back to me and tell me you can't gain weight. 'Cause I'm gonna tell you that you don't give a f**k about getting bigger and you don't care how much you lift!"

Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn't get much fatter. One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, though.

nesa wrote: Simple question to answer before you get into anything else... What are you? Are you a thrower, a strongman, or a runner? You can't be great at all 3. If you want to be an "also ran" then continue training for all 3 and accept the position...if you want to be a top athlete focus on one and train for that alone. Good Luck with the training. Erik

good post

I have been a muscly runner.

I am getting stronger

and I plan to throw

This was a good post and it calls me out.  When I went for ironman I ultimatley committed and lived it to be as elite as I could.  We will have to see.

Thansk for "calling me out on this"

what does a big 800 lb safety squat equate to in a raw, high bar medium stance back squat?

that is amazing strength for a throws team. Geez Bob, do I wish I had a coach like you in college...

Coach Mac, do your guys use the handles?  Are they full squats?

Thanks

Gene