Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:His personal trainer is an idiot. AT BEST men can gain 1lb muscle per month. Anything beyond that is fat. Fat does not increase performance in either of your son’s sports. All it takes to be a personal trainer is a weekend course and a couple hundred dollars.
If you want to look at the bigger picture and getting him bigger for college, he should increase calories by about 300-500 per day with a focus on protein and extra carbs before and immediately after workouts.
OP here. I've asked the nutritionist and she also said the same thing. His diet is already too good at 2700 calories each day so she would not change anything. She recommends that he eats a handful of nuts and an avocados prior the work out because avocados have high calories and gluten free OATS bar with a banana after the work out. That will add about 500 to 700 calories to his already healthy daily diet.
Your advice is right on target. Thank you.
My 15 year old son is similar. He is a serious athlete working to put on muscle mass - but none of his coaches put a "target" - its long and steady progress. He eats a similar nutritious diet - except around friends he gets a bit worse (they are teens). When he is working out more - he does add maybe more eggs, guac, nuts etc. Occasionally a GF oatsmega natural protein bar. Learned he had to be careful about protein bars friends were using - had a lot of garbage ingredients/chemicals , soy isolate? that made him sick. Wasn't one bar - but the accumulation of a few days, so luckily he made that decision himself to stay away from that stuff. .
Also, if he is having a growth spurt he seems to naturally adjust his food intake.
Btw - You have to be careful with a lot of these trainers as they don't always understand growing kids, or the specific sport and issues for teens - the result is that they can contribute to injuries, The way our ortho told us is that i may not be directly in the gym, but a workout later. With tennis, would be careful on exercises involving elbows.