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Old 12-16-2009, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Wow, that is surprising to me. I don't know why that personal trainer didn't think I could gain more than 3 pounds (although it turned out he was right).

I was working out with relatively heavy weights for my size. As I said, I'm 5'9, 135 pounds. When I would bench-press, I'd do sets of 125, 135, 145 pounds. At the time, I could max 185 pounds. But even working out really hard for over 1 1/2 hours, I still didn't gain more than a couple of pounds.
Like everyone posted above, what you eat plays an enormous part of it.

Good points Gander regarding the cardio aspect of things.
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