Does anyone else find bodybuilding prohibitively expensive?

[ruthlezz_1]

I've been trying to build muscle for a little over a year now, and have been pretty serious from the start - working out a different muscle group almost everyday, eating the requisite number of calories, getting appropriate rest, changing up my routine, eating healthily, etc.

However, for the past six months or so I have made virtually no progress, largely because I just haven't been able to afford to consistently eat 3700 calories a day. I've been going through some financial difficulty, but I don't seem to ever hear about other people having this problem.

Does anyone else find bodybuilding to be a rather prohibitively expensive sport? Does anyone have any suggestions for eating cheaply enough to support a bodybuilding lifestyle?

Thank you.

 

[georgia21]

Food really shouldn't be that expensive.

Can of beans - <$1

Rice - $.50/lb (dry/uncooked)

Ground Beef - $3-5/lb

Bodybuilding isn't really expensive until you start talking about drugs. Unless you're in poverty, food shouldn't be that hard to afford. You just need to eat cheaply.

 

[Stumpy]

If you're not making any more progress it's quite possible you need to take a look at your training routine, why not post up your training schedule in the relevant sub-forum for us to have a look at.

 

[crowman]

Let me help you with BB cheap foods, i have been in your place before:
The ones listed above
Oats
Potatos
Porn, Chicken, ground turkey. When you look for a sale it can be less than a dollar a lb.
Almond Butter
Dextrose 2+lb bag ??$2 maybe...PWO only if you dont use a solid food
Pasta
Eggs...dont do only egg whites its easy to get a 600 calorie meal with 5 whole eggs (try organic if you can, i can getm cheap from a local farmer) and a carb
Coconut oil- raw un refined
Honey- PWO

just plan your list ahead of time it makes things alot easier when you knw what your looking for

 

[Stumpy]

Let me help you with BB cheap foods, i have been in your place before:
The ones listed above
Oats
Potatos
Porn, Chicken, ground turkey. When you look for a sale it can be less than a dollar a lb.
Almond Butter
Dextrose 2+lb bag ??$2 maybe...PWO only if you dont use a solid food
Pasta
Eggs...dont do only egg whites its easy to get a 600 calorie meal with 5 whole eggs (try organic if you can, i can getm cheap from a local farmer) and a carb
Coconut oil- raw un refined
Honey- PWO

just plan your list ahead of time it makes things alot easier when you knw what your looking for

Porn is a food now? I knew I was doing something wrong.

 

[jhotsauce7]

Chicken theighs can often be bought for 99 cents a lb here. Brown rice bulk, eggs, oats... All you need!

 

[jhotsauce7]

Crow! I LOVE ME SOME PORN AND CHICKEN!

 

[jhotsauce7]

Skip the almond butter and get natural PB ... Teddy PB can be found for 250 a jar at wal Mart. Almond PB usually is around 10 a jar

 

[woodswise]

Like these guys are saying, buy the foods in their simplest form, and prepare them yourself. You will save a lot of money, and the food you eat will be a lot healthier.

If you look for sales and specials at the super market, you can save a lot of money. Don't buy the highest priced cuts of meat, and the freshest veggies. look for the ones that are on special because they're about to expire. Take them home and cook them right away, and put them in the freezer in single meal packets or containers.

Yes, it is expensive. But in the long run, it is not as expensive as being fat and out of shape, and losing your health.

 

[DF]

Porn is not just for breakfast anymore.

 

[Bigwhite]

Porn is not just for breakfast anymore.

And its cheep...

 

[1bigun11]

If you're not making any more progress it's quite possible you need to take a look at your training routine, why not post up your training schedule in the relevant sub-forum for us to have a look at.

This is what I thought too. Ruthlezz if you only started lifting a year ago and stalled in your progress after only 6 months into it my guess is that you are reading the muscle magazines and grossly overtraining, which you kind of implied in your post. Post up your routine and let us have a look at it.

On the other hand, I have heard good things about that chicken/porn combo too, lol.