The Hardgainer Scam and My Alternative!
As unfair as it seems, some people are just born with the perfect genetics to build slabs and slabs of muscle. For everyone else its just eat...and eat...and eat....and eat....and eat...and eat...and repeat. This method works...if you have the the appetite of a lion, have lots of money/time to spend on food/eating, and are perfectly okay with spending every day feeling like a pregnant woman in her third trimester. I myself am a bit of a hardgainer and played soccer most of my life so I know the feeling.
Anyways theres a solution. A solution I like to call (for lack of a better name) "The Grandaddy Bulking Shake" solution.
The Scam
I have tried multiple "mass gainer" or as I like to call them "money waster" shakes over the years and have since come to the conclusion that these shakes are complete and utter marketing garbage. Don't get me wrong, these shakes DO work for certain people. Certain people being people who are not meeting their daily calorie requirement with regular food. However what angers me is that the companies that formulate these shakes would like you to believe that there is some "magical" "anabolic" mixture of ingredients that is going to help you pack on muscle fast. This is utter bullshit!. Most of these "mass gainers" are simply sugar and whey labeled with a fucking ridiculous serving size to ensure that you'll run out of it quick and throw away another $50 for more of this shit.
My Solution
When I got tired of spending money on mass gainers I did a little research on them and became pretty mad at myself how much money I had wasted...So I decided to come up with my own mass gainer. For about 2 months I played around with different ingredients and servings sizes and the end result was the "Grandaddy Bulking Shake"
Some facts about this homemade mass gainer
1. It tastes fucking incredible
2. It's got over 100 grams of protein (about twice as much as most store bought mass gainers)
3. About 1,300 high quality calories
4. It is very cheap
5. Very quick and easy to make
THE GRANDADDY BULKING SHAKE RECIPE
2 cups milk
1 cup oats
1 cup greek yogurt
1 scoop protein (I use Forza Pro mint chocolate)
About 3 tablespoons of peanut butter
Handfull of frozen strawberries
Handful of frozen blueberries
Handful of frozen banana slices
Tips
-I use frozen fruit so that I don't have to add a ton of ice but you can use unfrozen fruit...Just add about 6-8 ice cubes
-Put 1 cup of milk and all nonfrozen ingredients in first and blend up so it mixes better then put in frozen fruit and the 2nd cup of milk
-This shake is massive but it tastes so good that it's easy to down it
Enjoy!
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Only comment is I don't believe it's worth ingesting 100g if protein in one sitting. Better 50g then another 50g an hour or so later.
TheCaptainThere's been a lot of research done on this and most studies have found that there is no problem with ingesting large amounts of protein at once. You're body doesn't really "waste" protein. I guess it's all personal preference though.
Good stuff man you really should add the tuna though LOL I know it sounds weird but you really don't even taste the tuna so you get the added proteins naturally +<3
TheCaptainHaha! Funny some of you guys are mentioning adding tuna because I did give the old "tuna orange juice shake" a try one time. Got half of it down and just about spewed it all over my kitchen floor. Since then I've pretty much avoided adding tuna in any form :/ Honestly haven't even thought about adding tuna to this shake though! I might give it a try sometime just for the hell of it. Only problem with putting it in all of them though is the high mercury content which could become a problem if you drink these every day!
i like the recipe good stuff bro,, when i was young i used to drink 3 servings of weight gainers per day lmfao.. as soon as i would stop drinking gainers i would loose weight it becomes easier to gain weight as you get older at least for me it did.
valhallas bestive been doing this for years just a little different then yours, i look forward to them everyday its fucking delicious sometimes even 2
........No tuna? Fuck that then.
GearofWarIt sounds very similar to Vike's: http://www.eroids.com/forum/general/general-talk/for-guys-that-seriously...
It does sound pretty damned tasty too I'll admit, and that,s a boatload of protein. Nice post, and another kick-ass, money saver recipe to add to my favorites.
LMFAO!....... if he starts to swear like me on threads he,s fkn banned.... gonna start trademarking my shit bro lol...... he must be fkn gay though, i didnt notice any tuna in there!.... thats for real fkn men ha :)))))
GearofWarYes indeed. His recipe was suspiciously devoid of Coca-Cola of the diet variety and tuna. Want to be even more hardcore? Blend in the tuna in oil NOT the tuna in water. I better not see any of these Nancy boys start rattling off recipes that include sausage, hot dogs, or any other type of tube steaks though That's where I draw the line. At least the tuna has that familiar "feminine" smell, know what I mean?! You are the fuk'n originator of hardcore in this place, Mad Hoss. And I doubt anyone will forget that. "Often imitated, never duplicated."-That's Vike.
bbondsThis sounds awesome brotha im going to give this a try, thanks for sharing.
Love it man, gonna try it this week and see how it works out. Hardgainer to the extreme here. I eat, eat, eat, eat, and put on minimal amounts of weight. Work myself like a slave hand at the gym 6 days a week.
Gonna give this a try and see whats up.
You could make a couple of these guys at a time and refrigerate them too so its a really good idea. I'm always looking for something fresh to shake things up a bit. It get tiring eating the same things 24/7.
TheCaptainGood to hear bro, trust me I've been there and this shake helped me finally gain some weight. It's good for before bed, after a workout, or really just any time that you need some quick calories and protein. And yes they're good to refrigerate to, just make sure you stir it up before you drink it because some of the oats and stuff will sink to the bottom!