How much muscle can you gain in a month? The amount of muscle you can gain in a month depends on the experience level of the lifter, your age, sex, how many calories and protein you are consuming. Are you a beginner, intermediate or advanced fitness experience level? If you are beginner and you have never lifted before you will be able to gain more muscle than an advanced trainee in one month.
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The data is limited to how much muscle you can actually gain in one month because everybody is different based on how their body responds to lifting weights. Your genetic make up may reveal that you respond better to muscle growth stimulus.
And the reason you would gain the most amount of muscle if you are a beginner is because the training is a new stimulus for your muscles. And because you are new at training you have a huge upside because you haven’t activated your muscle growth potential yet.
Someone who has been training for 10 years or more is probably close to their muscle growth potential or at it so their muscle growth in that one-month period will be limited.
During the late beginner and early intermediate training phase you have the most potential for muscle growth as you move past the neural adaptation phase.
Being in a calorie surplus and consuming at least a gram or more of protein per pound is essential to building lean muscle mass. One of the advantages that men have over women is their ability to gain more muscle than women. And the number reason for this is they produce more testosterone than a woman.
An advantage that women have over men is they can manage exercise recovery quicker as well as volume faster than women.
Studies show that people without prior strength training experience have greater potential for muscle gain than fitness enthusiasts with training experience.
A small study showed a 5.6% increase in muscle size after 21 weeks of strength training in 8 non-strength-training athletes than 8 strength training athletes. The 8 strength training athletes experienced less growth.
Someone who has never lifted weights before or whose training experience is less than 2 years can experience more muscle growth. Why? Because they haven’t applied any workout stress to the muscle to enhance or stimulate it.
The Bottom Line is how much muscle you can gain in a month depends on the sex, training experience, age. And how much protein you are consuming as well as how many calories you are consuming.
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