- . But a desirable regular feeding pattern will only work if you can handle
food at that frequency. Smaller and more frequent feeds are only part of the
task. You need to find the mixtures of different foods that suit your digestive
system. What suits one person can cause digestive tract distress for another
person. You could assemble a basic outline of five daily feeds that agree with
you, and that you can handle well so that your stomach is ready for each feed
as it comes time to have it. And make each feed of similar caloric value so
that the processing load per feed is similar. en stick rigidly to your feeding
outline excepting if you have some digestive tract upset that delays diges-
tion. In such a case you would be better off delaying a feed until you have
some appetite rather than put in more food on an undigested previous meal.
en perhaps catch up with the skipped calories over the next day or two,
by adding or so additional calories per feed.. Once you can comfortably process five feeds per day on a regular basis,
progress to dividing your daily caloric needs over six meals a day. Do this
by reducing the between-feeds spacing to just three hours, to squeeze in the
sixth meal.A reminder
. Even the very best food and supplements will make you fat, if you consume
too much. And even the “right” quantity will make you fat if you are not
training properly. You have to deliver intensive training and progressive
poundages on a sensible weight-training program if you are to use the nutri-
ents to build muscle. You must provide the stimulus to grow before you can
turn any nutrients into muscle. ere are plenty of people whose diets are
more than adequate for growth, but because they do not train properly they
do not have a chance of building much if any muscle.. Whether you can gain , or even pounds of muscle in a year depends
on many factors including age, your genetic endowment, how underdevel-
oped you are before the period of assessment, how you train, how well you
rest, and how dedicated you are. Rather than putting an arbitrary number
on it, dedicate yourself to doing the best you can both in and out of the gym,
and let the results take care of themselves.