help with unconventional approach to bulking up

[abobo]

Knowledgable folk,

Help me help my good buddy bulk up. He is tall and lanky, not a lifter, and has no weights or equipment to lift except odd objects that you might find in an apartment.

Also, he is a near vegetarian, eating eggs and dairy.

I have some ideas, but I'm still working on them. If you have any, fire away.

[Meat Shake]

Hold his couch, do squats.
Push the refrigerator around the apartment.
Fight the dog.

[wall]

Chinup bar (20 bucks, doorway mounted), handstand pushups, deads using edge of couch (with person sitting on it if necessary), hindu squats or later squats with person on shoulders, etc.

Then, after training, lots of eggs and milk and cheese for plenty of protein, as well as carbs for fuel and veg + fruit for vitamins etc.

Can get plenty big this way, and loads of functional compound strenght.

W

[Tak]

Bleh, everyone's so obsessed with bulking up.

Wrestling a big dog is a great workout - now I just need a 100lb cat.

[abobo]

Bulking up is a perfectly normal thing to do.

[IronFist]

He's not going to gain size if he doesn't eat more.

[abobo]

Tell me something I don't know...

[IronFist]

Tell him, as tactfully as you can, that it's tough for vegetarians to bulk up. It's very possible, it's just difficult, especially when it comes to getting adaquate protein intake.

[matt]

hey a great way to bulk up with out expensive supplements and excessive heavy lifting is to eat two or three football snaks at each meal they take a few days to start to work and you can eat a fist full of them before your full but i gained a 100lbs in a mounth eating them

[IronFist]

Originally posted by matt
but i gained a 100lbs in a mounth

:rolleyes:

[Thundermudd]

If he's still doin milk have him look into whey protien. It is the isolated milk protien - good stuff

[Samurai Jack]

I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian. I went from 170 to 210 pounds with a bodyfat percentage increase of 3%. It took about six months but I gained the first twenty five pounds in about three. No real secret, I just ate like a pig!

I had a 16" cheese or veggie pizza for dinner every night. I mean EVERY NIGHT.

I ate a large tub of cottage cheese everyday (some for breakfast, the rest for lunch).

I drank a couple of pints of guiness every night I could :D .

I started weight training four days a week for about 45 min.

I also did thirty minutes of cardio three days a week (I understand this can be counter productive, but it's what I did).

MMMMMmmmm pizza and beer! That was the best diet ever!

[blooming lotus]

Also a vego....try something for an insulin spike post workout followed by a dextrose carb (somethingfrom corn?/maize) for volumisation, dont go too heavy protein without over 50% carb (to be safe) or you'll end up in ketosis. eating a simple carb (sugar) with your complex carb slows down absorbtion and gives you more chance of holding bulk.