Dr. Mike's Mass Gain Diet up to 250lbs | My Bodybuilding Transformation EP. 1
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I had went on a 20+ year bulk, I started out 10 pounds and got to a solid 200. Took a lot of dedication!
You were a 10lb baby? God bless your mother
@@Jiggleton no dude, he had to watch Mike's videos for a while before starting his bulk
Mike is literally the only man I can sit and watch to talk about his diet for 32 minutes and 20 seconds straight.
True.... I can't believe I'm so into listening him, even his jokes :)
He’s the only bald headed white guy id let hit fr no diddy
I'm just addicted to this guys videos and jokes
His replies recently have been hilarious ! He’s quite the character !
@@mattc4266 Hey shut up! JK JK JK Thanks for tuning in, folks! And even you, Matt C! ;) - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodization legend says Mike will reply to this comment...
@@hhfbko *tumbleweed sound effect*
YES
Dr. Mike...I gotta say man...I've been on vacation for the past week and stumbled across your channel early into it and I've been watching every day since then. Wow...in short...this has changed my life. I've recently turned 50 and I'm absolutely loving using what I'm learning. I've started four meals per day, 40-50 grams protein each. This feels completely normal and sustainable, unlike IF and six+ meals per day. I've lowered the weights and my technique is really on point. Three count negative, two count hold in the stretch, then accelerated positive...it is unbelieveable how the muscles are worked, the joints are saved, and my mobility is up a lot. I'm doing three full body sessions each week...three sets max per bodypart...sometimes two. Each bodypart feels fried ad I'm completely spent at the end. But I feel like I'm growing like a weed...at 50! It's been a really long time since I really put all the pieces together. This is amazing and wanted to share my excitement about it. Thanks!
The part about creatine and multivitamin, I love you doc
Haha. And people still say "post your cycle." When we share a jail cell, I'll tell you all about it, how about that? But then you get top bunk cause' I'm afraid of heights. - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodization haha
Love the dark background. It's usually better since I always watch your videos before I go to sleep (or during). I just re-watch them while working to take note.
I'd love to hear what you have to say about the special sport supps! It's a shame you can't talk openly about it... But thank you a lot for being honest about it and also mentioning it here in this video! It would have been easy to leave out, but you took extra care to mention it not only once, but actually several times, so big thumbs up for that!
P.S. A collab / Podcast with MPMD would be awesome!
Legal or illegal?
Legal supplements are a waste of money unless for some reason you are deficient in vitamins in your diet or you on cutting.
@@TH-camChillZone well, I'm not gonna spell it out for you, but to me (and apparently a lot of other people in the comment section) it's seems pretty clear what Dr Mike is hinting at whe he says "special sport supplements"...
@@TH-camChillZone he’s obviously not talking about legal supps ya goof
He's gone onto some other youtube channels to educate on "supplements," as well as advised peeping Broderick Chavez's channel. All good stuff, very insightful. Literally the "authoritie(s)" on "gear." You'll learn a ton, for sure.
@@jwgosla08 ooohh yess, thanks a lot for the tip man, I'm gonna check it out! :D
You know what I like about you, Dr Mike? You embrace your honest self in social media. Not only that, but you are confident in your inner self and true to the real you. I find it so refreshing in the day of fake influencers! You give huge credibility to what you share with us. Thank you.
You know what I like about you?
Your name
Do you live in a truck?
What are you wearing right now?
@@backfru she's wearing the truck duh
For those who didnt understand which supplements he refered, he was taking the divine protein shaker
Straight from the tap?
I hear the protein is built and made after a workout on the shakeweight
The most anabolic one of them all
Bad zoomer joke
The good vitamins (vs)
Really appreciate the transparency with e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. It's incredibly refreshing. Hope you do well with your show!
Always appreciate the honesty
I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone in fitness bringing up supplements. I love that level of honestly which is part of the reason I continue to watch the videos from rp.
John Meadows talked about them candidly many times, so does Ben Pollack. Rare indeed
This is a close as we might ever get to a Dr. Mike vlog
"Hey guys, I'm in Bali and it's like soooo beautful here! Here's shaky selfie stick video of me riding a scooter around the city." UGHGHGHHG Can you tell I hate vlogs? LOL - Dr. Mike
Really like your videos dude keep it up
There are very few people who are honest in this fitness industry Dr Mike is one of those few people. That's why I love this guy's content so much .
So much of amazing knowledge man. Thanks you so much.
You have no idea how grateful I feel for having people like you who share these valuable fitness content for free. I learn a lot sir, I even make notes of these so that I can learn and apply this knowledge in my own training as well as my clients training.
Love from India. Thank you once again. Keep helping sir.
Ever since I started watching Dr. Mikes videos I’ve definitely started to improve. I feel fuller, longer and harder. And that’s not even at the gym! Once his videos climax… so do I. Sigh… then off to the gym for the gains. Thank you Dr. Mike! For your wisdom, sense of humor and therapeutic voice.
Dr. Mike continues to raise the bar. That was not a pun.
NGL, never would have pegged Dr. Mike at 5'6" always seemed like a mountain to me. So even more impressive to carry that size. Amazing work.
Could’ve stopped at Dr. mike
"And I hated myself, which is always healthy." His sarcastic delivery always gets me 😂😂
Mike your delivery is always first class !!!
196lbs, 6'0", 4 weeks into a 12 week maintenance phase, using the RP Diet App. My steps fluctuate between 10k to 23k since I work two jobs, and I'm a surveyor. Sometimes I'm in the office, some days I'm in the field. And my night job, I'm a waiter. The app is great for hitting my macros with protein and fat, and a good general idea of carbs, though I usually overeat on carbs because I'm moving so much with little shift in overall weight.
when do you wourkout :) ?
Dr. Mike I would love to a see an ethics-analysis style video (like the one about vegan diet) about special sports supplements!
He has a vegan video?
The black background is a great addition, it is very comfortable for the eye
17:10 funny, I have the same exact reaction to dairy and milk. When I tell people lactose intolerance is a spectrum people usually think I bullshitting them. It was nice to hear it from you.
Hi Dr. Mike. 34 year old female here. 15% body fat year round, 5'5 and 158 lbs and 13 years experience. Could you do a video on female muscle building? I build muscle relatively easily (genetics, great diet and past sports history - plus all of your wisdom 🙌 over the past few years) but wondering if you could explain the similarities and differences in female muscle growth specifically? Optimal growth ranges? Training etc? Basically anything related to female muscle. Thanks so much!
Mike feeds on the souls of the people he breaks on leg day...
this guy is one of the best. Amazingly informative content (both the videos and the online guides). Definitely someone, I trust and look to for advice. I wish he could more openly talk about "supplements" as I am now wondering if his training recommendation for Training Volume (MRV, MAV, MEV, etc.) are based on the assumption that you are taking "supplements" or not.
The training volume recommendations are pretty wide, general windows- and he’s given some pretty good guidelines on how to find *your* volume landmarks (offhand don’t remember which videos but you can probably Google it pretty easily. Long story short, use a baseline performance, ie benching 225 for 10, and add sets to your program until you notice 225 for Reps backsliding; then you know you’ve gone a bit too far. If you can maintain 225x10 or add Reps… seems like you’re doing good!), so it matters less if someone is natty or enhanced, versus if *you* are natty or enhanced while you follow the process of finding the volume landmarks.
Dr. Mike is my favorite natty bodybuilder
Didn't even feel like a half hour long video.
Bless you brother and thank you for the invaluable information.
First, thanks TONS for the info you always drop on us Dr. Mike, its appreciated. However, honestly I dislike this new video set up with the powerpoints slides being small and in the rear. The words are hard to read. The old videos setup with the powerpoint takes the half of the screen is MUCH MUCH better. Also I can screenshot the slides and go back and read them if I need to refresh my knowledge which is so helpful. Just my 2 cents 😊
@@fakeitorfontmakeit he made them better now, all is good now
This makes me so pumped to start my massing phase in 2 weeks!
Really appreciate Mike's transparency
52 male here and I have an at home-diy equipment strength training starting at basic body weight stuff. The one thing I definitely have completely squared away is the food choices. I have a strict whole food-plant based diet. At my weight I"m gonna stick with a basic 100-120 grams of protein, but I'm well above on calories. Very easy for me and a big food that has good protein while eaten in bulk is whole wheat bread. Whole wheat pasta and black beans is my staple, with kale and spinach and cayenne pepper. Drinking tea and eating various fruit. No oil, salt, sugar refined foods or refined grains, of course. I can up beans and lower pasta to get a lot more protein if needed.
The only thing I need is exercise discipline. :-) *If* I stick with it I will improve pretty fast imho and my legs have been pretty good in the past so restarting that should go faster.
So it's mostly whole wheat pasta, black beans, lots of spinach and kale and some fruits. Living alone helps greatly to avoid temptation of other people's foods.
Doing it for the short guys. Thanks dr mike
Already 250 but I'm 6'3. I'd love to bulk to 300. Thanks Doc!
Hey I weigh 195 lbs down from 325 lbs love your content I’ve been able to find a diet plan that works for me and I don’t see food as food anymore but fuel to get me through my day
Mike, you didnt mention which kids breakfast cereal you like 😁
You would make a great career as a stand-up artist lol. Love watching this kind of videos while eating
Love your open-ness (if that's a word) of the special sports supplements, big respect mate!
Flipping heck, is it really that simple to get to 250, piece of cake bruuuuuh!
Lol genetics will stop you too
Switching from light mode to dark mode
Broderick is a funny way of saying more plates more dates
Dr mike this meal plan was incredible I went from 5'6 230 to 6'4 230
😂
"Because I'm not a drug addict" LOL
That’s a lot of weight on that frame. Wow!
Ok doc talk about what you are doing to stay healthy carrying that much weight
? what can he do because check his blood work and do cardio lol
You are the best man, keep doing these contents 👌🏼👌🏼
Appreciate the well caveated breakdown of your experiences in massing. It is cool to hear the experiences of someone who is applying all the principles of hypertrophy and diet in practicum. Thanks, Dr. Mike!
My pleasure! - Dr. Mike
Thanks. I have trouble gaining weight and the morning and evening shakes will be a great addition!
Excited to hear 🔥
I went from 152 pounds 3 years ago to 220 pounds this year, no special supplements, age 31-34 :-) But I definitely do NOT have veined abs :( I'm 33.5% fat now.
This is EPIC Mike.
I currently weigh 600 pounds of pure steel.
Thank you Mike!!! Videos are gold!! 👌
really refreshing to see someone openly talk about his use of "wink wink supplements" and devil's lettuce consumption when talking about fitness
225lbs at 5'6" here. My big takeaway here is that if I train a little harder and take the right special sports supplements I'll be able to eat more without getting sloppy. This is the first time I've seriously considered turning in my natty card.
I'm 157 lbs 5'6" at 7/8% bodyfat and I tried eating 5000+ calories a day and increased my already brutal workouts even more when they were already 2+ hours long. After about 6-8 weeks i gained about 5 lbs of fat still....
@@ascendedmaster1126 maybe you're burning too many calories in your workouts. Try heavier weights and less reps, less time in gym, more muscle gain.
11:18 Mike is the best 😆😆
Cool snort at 11:46. Keeping it real Dr Mike.
Just what I needed! Thank you
Quality info !!! Thanks !!!
1 scoop of serious mass and 1 scoop of gold standard has been my go to mass meal for about a decade now. I'm a hard gainer so it has really helped me drink some extra calories. I started at about 63kg out of high school. I'm now 33 years old and 93kg.
@Person best of luck. My only additional advice is to build calories slowly and try to keep or add in your cardio. I did push calories hard when I didn't need to and made myself miserable when I could have just taken things slower.
@Person also you dont have to use ON gold standard. Any protein will do seeing as the serious mass has a lot of protein in it so your amino acid profiles are going to be fine.
Great stuff. Hard to find the next in the series at times- cmon TH-cam algorithm become smarter
Dr. Mike - an american russian immigrant jewish master chef and body builder with at least a doctorate on dinosaurs and guns.
A shake: a very pleasant way to cram more proteins in your regular diet when you're not well equipped to eat lots (and don't want to include too much meat a day) and may suffer from digestion issues. Personal opinion. It's amazing how big of a difference a 40g protein shake does for your daily meals and gains if you're struggling to find the balance with eating and sufficient protein towards best results you can get with your training.
Do you think there are people in the business (like serious bodybuilding) that don't take "special supplements"? Of course there has to be bodybuilders who don't use them, but the interesting thing to me is where would the line go, how far behind does someone get left when they don't take those? Like where would dr. Mike be without them? I can't imagine insanely behind, but obviously there has to be a noticeable benefit to go for them. On the other hand I don't believe that they can make just anyone Arnold.
I can respect the choice to go out and state on camera that you take them. That requires some guts even though it's more about weak ego to pretend you're not using something if you are, the truth doesn't change. Someone might see that as a reason to stop believing the lectures, the science behind them as well oddly enough, but in my eyes the transparency builds more trust. The foundation still needs to be right if you want to reach extra high with the additional stuff. And I'd rather have someone who takes the supplements and never lies about the important things than someone who doesn't take them, but doesn't tell you the truth about things.
facts
320, fat as fuck and loving the content. noticing more muscle everyday and excited to hit the gym. Thanks Dr. Mike!!
I’m 6’2” currently around 210-215lbs and if I eat less than 4400 calories I lose weight. To gain weight I have to go towards 5000cals. It’s a daily struggle to get in food, I try to avoid fast food generally. Also, people tell me to “F off” when I tell them how much I can eat and lose weight…
You must be insanely active lol. I'm 6'4" ~220lbs lifting and/or doing cardio everyday and my maintenance is like 3200-3500.
I’ve consistently use Optimum whey, casein, and creatine for a while
Damn i had no idea you were 5’6, no wonder we see eye to eye ;)
Chipotle burrito is also one of my favourite foods but sadly they don’t have them here in England :(
As a holistic naturopathic doctor for 18 years I believe gaining that much weight would be dangerous for the heart and internal organs also antibiotics steroids are really bad medicine explains why I am 58 pro classic natty international champions still winning don't take steroids especially if you're a doctor you should know better don't gain all that weight unless you wanna look like a modern-day bodybuilder like a Michelin man
Go Naty getting lean and healthy
Optimum Nutrition listening to this
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I'm 5'6" ....clearly you made this specifically for me! It is off-season mode for me and I'm currently trying to make my body reach a new 200lb set point, but without getting too fluffy.
5'6" damm that's tough
good luck bro
@@hemingway3508 Haha I mean in some cases it is ya, such as shopping and the thing that I want is up on the top shelf. So I either have to scale the shelves like Cliffhanger, or begrudgingly ask a tall person to help me.
But it does have its advantages in regards to biomechanics. Less distance to travel when pulling deadlifts, shorter bench press, and squat.
It's all about embracing what you got and utilizing the advantages.
5’6” club member here! I recently got on my bulk phase and have gone from 196lbs on 6/30 to 215lbs today 8/23… I’m not a big eater and especially after working out it is damn tuff to smash a larger meal. Hoping to hit 225lbs
@@therippedemon W comment
All those calories but no emphasis on Omega's or any other types of healthy fats? You could easily drop 50 grams of carbs to get another 20 grams of fish oil/black cumin seed/olive/ or any other type "healthy" fat of choice in there.. I could be wrong but I feel that would be a bit more optimal🙏🏼
no guac doc? shame on you
Great to see all laid out, 6'1 getting to 178lbs end of 1st real mass after years of endurance sport. Still hungry 😋
Here's what 3800 calories of clean food looks like:
2 cups of white rice (dry)
1 cup of lentils (dry)
2 cups of mixed veg (carrot, pea, corn, frozen)
4 large chicken breast
2 Tbs butter.
Makes 5 500-600g portions.Eaing it all physically hurts.
Thank you for your knowledge and video's USA 🇺🇸
I'm guessing/presuming the BIG change to supps was a little more gear in general PLUS the incorporation of HGH + insulin (lantus possibly).
Why? That trio (gear+hgh+insulin) can really help with consistently pushing up weight while maintaining good BF% like you did (veins in abs), within reaosn ofc! and at low dosages too!
400mg-1g gear, 3-6iu gh, 10-25iu lantus
yes
What I learned: dip my burrito into fruit to be like Mike and get big big
Hey Dr.Mike! First off, I appreciate all your videos, and I’m slowly going through them to learn as much as possible.
So, currently, I am in mass gaining phase, and I have been slowly adding calories. My question is, how do you determine when to increase? Currently I try to wait two weeks, and if I do not see an increase in weight, I’ll add 100-200 calories. Is that optimal? Or should I take a different approach?
Thank you!
Mike, as a PhD man like myself, what is your opinion on non-PhD Medical physicians referring to themselves as 'Doctors'?
"aS a FElLow DoC bOi ..."
250 lbs at 5'6" .. aint that to much for your heart regardless if your low in bodyfat.
It sure is. It's not for health, that's for sure. - Dr. Mike
I'm 5'7'' 200lb 20% plus probably I'd be more than happy to be at the same weight with 13% bodyfat
Glad to see that orher human beings are shattered by anything over 8 sets of hamstrings per week
Were you still training BJJ during this massing phase?
Right before i got to 200 lbs i started losing a little weight. It took about 4 days of thought and calorie increase of 500 to figure out that my calorie needs finally increased after gaining 25 lbs (4'500 avg to now 5'000 avg), whole foods is the way to go mines all plant based, getting rid of preservatives additives food colors ect.... that bog down the system especially for hardgainers can only take so much toxin/garbage load in food before it starts to resist adding more bodyweight, wish i did it 10 years ago in my 20's o well.
Hey, Seasoned salt is one badass broad use additive. I use it on all kinds of things. Some things it makes taste a bit sweeter, some get some added zing, some it makes more savory, and all from one Shaker, it's amazeballs.
6 2 and 225. lookin lean ish at a 265 bench
Awesome video.
I'm pretty sure that Chipotle is the official sponsor of bodybuilding 😜
Are you a dragon, Dr. Mike? 'Cus' you're sitting on a hoard of gold with these tips.
Dr Mike what is your cereal of choice?
You need to hop on that magic spoon cereal Mike! No better cereal high in protein, low in calorie, 13-14g of protein per serving 140-150 cals a serving
regular cereals some water and whey, save you some money ;) you can add fiber oats if you want extra fiber
He would need 3 or 4 boxes of that shit to equal his serving size, and last time I checked it was around 7 bucks per box.
@@merrieleiderman1885 truee
Money isn't really a problem though I guess it doeends though on the person because yeah it can be pricey
4 boxes of cookies and cream though for less than 30 dollars
My Minicut: Skip 2nd breakfast.
Finally, now I know exactly what to eat!
Edit: I weigh 3000 lbs.
Damn I'm 5 foot 6 and the most I ever weighed was 195 at my most jacked point and I was kinda fat. Right now I'm at 153 at the same strength
I'm a 105lb female whose maintenance is between 1700 and 1800kcals. Why am I so interested in this?😂 Maybe because 4500 sounds like a dream lol
I have heard my whole life that going up and down in body weight is not healthy but Dr. Mike does a 15 lb up to 30 lb cycle at least twice a year according to this video. Intetesting
I understand he says much of it is water weight which supplements affect a lot
It is not healthy.
I truly understand doc hehe
"Nudge-Nudge Wink-Wink Say no more!"
Dr Mike please nooooo 😭 im 180.8 as of this morning, BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND! I’m tryna get to 8-10% bf before I bulk since a year ago I was 350 😭
Making delicious macro friendly food right now at 1600-1900 calories a day has me dreaming about how much I could eat at 4500. I can’t imagine blowing it on protein powder, Pre packaged chicken, broccoli slaw, and rice. Incredible lmao.
158.4kg at last weigh in. Currently on a cut. 😁