Has any gained a significant amount of muscle mass from body weight exercises?
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peppermint. you havent answwered the question.\n\nyes you can gain significant musclemass from bodyweight exercises. as long as you do the right exercises and eat enough protein to gain mass.\nMens health magazine always has bodyweight exercises and they are great.\nalso 'death by bodyweight'\nI was travelling for 9 months and it was hard to get to a gym and spent those months doing bodyweight training. very good.
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Skeletal muscle mass is regulated by hormones and cytokines.\nAnabolic hormones,GH/IGF-1 and testosterone cause Hypertrophy, on the other hand, Catabolic hormones such as Glucocorticoid and TNF-α  reduces skeletal muscle mass.\n\nPhysical stimulation induces the expression of these hypertrophic hormones(especially IGF-1), whereas reduces adipose tissue mass which produces catabolic cytokine.\n\nIf you want increase your muscle mass, Exercise is the best way.
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It's probably because you gave your body time to rest and recover from the streneous exercise you had been doing. Now that your muscle tissue has rebuilt, it is stronger (well, the way you get muscles is first breaking them down and then they rebuild themselves stronger.) It has been proven that if you over-exercise, your body will become weaker and weaker unless you give it time to recover. Now that you have gained some weight, you probably also have more motivation than you did before to lose that weight and exercise again. Hope I'm of help!
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Yes.  Muscle weighs more than fat but gives the body a physically fit appearance. Fat does not. For example;  if you take 2 people who are both the same height and weigh 170 lbs. but one is 28% fat and the other is 40%, the person with the 40% fat will look physically overweight even though they both weigh the same.  So, you can stay the same weight over time but look overweight when you lose muscle mass and gain fat instead.
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Nope.\n\nSomebody with more muscle mass will appear thinner than someone with less muscle mass who weighs the same number of pounds and is of the same height (because muscle is denser [has a higher ratio of weight to volume] than fat tissue).  \n\nTo give a concrete example: say you have two men who are both 6' tall and both weigh 200 pounds, but one is an athlete and the other is a couch potato.  They will both have the same BMI (since they both weigh the same and are of the same height), but one will look better and be in better shape than the other. \n\nThis is widely considered one of the primary drawbacks of using BMI to gauge fitness/health.
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You might be doing a little too much. Especially if you are talking about gaining muscle mass. Gaining muscle mass is a combination of exercise, nutrition, and recovery. If any one of those is out of whack you won't experience the best possible gains. In some cases you won't see any.\n\nMy advice would be:\n\n1. Cut you workouts down to three full body workouts a week. Either Mon,Wed,Fri or Tues,Thurs,Sat. This schedule will allow your muscles to recover and grow. Remember to increase the weight on all your lifts by 10% every two weeks. Try this for about six months. \n\n2. Get a gram of protein for every pound of bodyweight or your lean body mass. Try to get it from lean sources. Eat about six small meals per day.\n\n3. Try creatine and HMB.\n\n4. Drink plenty of water. If you divide your bodyweight in pounds by two that is the number of ounces of water you need to drink in a day.\n\n5. Remember to stretch.\n\n6. Do at least a half hour of cardio three times a week. For some fun cardio take up a martial art like Karate or Tae Kwon Do.\n\n7. Take a good multivitamin.\n\n8. Find out what your body type is. Are you a mesomorph, endomorph, or ectomorph? Are you a combination of any of these. These bodytypes determine how you should workout. Look them up on www.bodybuilding.com for a full explanation.\n\n9. Get as much quality sleep as you can. Eight hours a night is good. You grow while you are sleeping.\n\nHere's a sample three day workout:\n\nWORK OUT PROGRAM \n3 X WEEK\n\n\nLEGS\nSquat 3x8\nStraight Leg Deadlift 3x10\nStanding Calf Raise 3x10-15\n\nCHEST\nBench Press 3x8-10\nFlyes 3x8-10\n\nBACK\nPulldown 3x10-15\nBent Over Rows 3x6-10\nDeadlifts 3x10-12\n\nSHOULDERS\n\nMilitary Press 3x8-10\nUpright Rows 3x10-15\n\nBICEPS\n\nStanding Barbell Curls 3x10-12\n\nTRICEPS \nLying Tricep Extensions 3x10-15\n\nSTOMACH\n\nCrunches 3x50\n\n\nMon., Wed., Fri. or Tues., Thurs., Sat.\n\nEvery two weeks increase the weight on each exercise by 10%. If you can’t don’t worry about it. Keep trying until you can.\n\nAfter a while you can move back up into heavier workouts. Hope this helps! I used this answer once before to help somebody else!\n\nSource(s):\nBodybuilding 101 by Robert Wolff\nSuper Squats by Randall Strossen\nStretching by Bob Anderson\nThe Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger\nArnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
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No.  Depending on your definition of 'getting muscles'.  Diets alone really don't seem to work and any kind of exercise would at least result in some toning of the muscles.  A body that isn't lean and fit tends to be inefficient.  While its true that calories in-calories out is how your weight is affected I speculate that if you cut your calories you'll just end up lazier and feeling like you have less energy.  This is of course unless you consume some ridiculous amounts of food.  But overall the best idea is to combine food and exercise. Getting 'muscles' isn't bad, as lean muscle mass burns more fat at rest.  If you don't want large muscles concentrate on cardio-respatory and muscle endurance rather than weight lifting.  This way your muscles will be toned and you'll burn fat more effectively.
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lots and lots of $$$$$ and muscles
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ok...\n1.. training when u young and your body still growing you will f up your body and stunt your growth...\n2. the only way to increase muscle mass is to eat protein... beans, fish, tofu etc etc...\n3 after training make sure u get some zinc in to repair the nerve endings\n4 get a proper training schedule to maximise your time in the gym\n5 eat 5 times a day to keep your matabolism up and going\n\nthat all i could think off!\n\nhave fun!
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definately, high muscle density can affect ones stature.
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No, but it will help you to gain muscle mass.\nThe only way to lose weight is to expend more calories than you take in, and this can only be accomplished with diet and/or exercise.
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Hmm. I thought protein shakes are used to gain weight. But I could be wrong.
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You might be doing a little too much. Especially if you are talking about gaining muscle mass. Gaining muscle mass is a combination of exercise, nutrition, and recovery. If any one of those is out of whack you won't experience the best possible gains. In some cases you won't see any.\n\nMy advice would be:\n\n1. Cut you workouts down to three full body workouts a week. Either Mon,Wed,Fri or Tues,Thurs,Sat. This schedule will allow your muscles to recover and grow. Remember to increase the weight on all your lifts by 10% every two weeks. Try this for about six months. \n\n2. Get a gram of protein for every pound of bodyweight or your lean body mass. Try to get it from lean sources. Eat about six small meals per day.\n\n3. Try creatine and HMB.\n\n4. Drink plenty of water. If you divide your bodyweight in pounds by two that is the number of ounces of water you need to drink in a day.\n\n5. Remember to stretch.\n\n6. Do at least a half hour of cardio three times a week. For some fun cardio take up a martial art like Karate or Tae Kwon Do.\n\n7. Take a good multivitamin.\n\n8. Find out what your body type is. Are you a mesomorph, endomorph, or ectomorph? Are you a combination of any of these. These bodytypes determine how you should workout. Look them up on www.bodybuilding.com for a full explanation.\n\n9. Get as much quality sleep as you can. Eight hours a night is good. You grow while you are sleeping.\n\nHere's a sample three day workout:\n\nWORK OUT PROGRAM \n3 X WEEK\n\n\nLEGS\nSquat                   3x8\nStraight Leg Deadlift   3x10\nStanding Calf Raise     3x10-15\n\nCHEST\nBench Press             3x8-10\nFlyes                   3x8-10\n\nBACK\nPulldown                3x10-15\nBent Over Rows          3x6-10\nDeadlifts               3x10-12\n\nSHOULDERS\n\nMilitary Press          3x8-10\nUpright Rows            3x10-15\n\nBICEPS\n\nStanding Barbell Curls  3x10-12\n\nTRICEPS \nLying Tricep Extensions 3x10-15\n\nSTOMACH\n\nCrunches                3x50\n\n\nMon., Wed., Fri. or Tues., Thurs., Sat.\n\nEvery two weeks increase the weight on each exercise by 10%.  If you can’t don’t worry about it.  Keep trying until you can.\n\nAfter a while you can move back up into heavier workouts. Hope this helps!
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Yes.  1. It does take a certain amount of cardiovascular effort to lift the weights.  2. Muscle burns energy.  More muscle requires more energy to maintain it.\n\nWhat's tricky is that you can lose fat, but gain weight.  Muscle weighs more than fat.  So if you take off 10 cubic inches of fat and put on 10 cubic inches of muscle, you'll actually gain weight.
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weightlifting/bodybuilding
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It's called gaining mass to lose the as*.
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exercise adds muscle which makes you heavier. It is possible to gain weight from exercise, that is basically what body builders do.  Conversely you can lose weight by doing nothing simply from the deterioration of muscle.  That is what is going on with me right now. I have not exercised in months since my daughter was born but the pounds have continued to drop.  The difference is that my body is not toned like it used to be. I am thinner but I am out of shape.  Hopefully you're not!  And, based on what you've said you are concerned more about the number on the scale than the actual size and composition of your body.  As long as you are the size you want to be and you like how you look, the actual weight should not matter as much.  So unless you are actually growing fatter by exercising, which I think is impossible, you should keep it up.