Gaining or losing muscle or fat is something that must be done very gradually. Losing or gaining too much muscle or fat very fast is not healthy as it can, and definitely will, lead to other disorders of the glandular system. So, when one asks how much muscle can you gain in a week? The answer is relative to how much one is willing to risk – and, naturally - spend!

Weight trainers worth their practice will have you know that gaining muscle is no easy task. There is a lot to take into consideration and this includes, exercise, diet and lifestyle. A person with a sedentary lifestyle will have to take things slowest as compared to someone who leads a very active life. Needless to say, the active individual will most likely gain a lot of muscle in a week compared to the sedentary one – a few months into a rigorous exercise routine.

But coming back to how much muscle weight can you gain in a week, one can never really put a figure to the answer to that question. It all depends on the diet, supplements and exercise put in. Even then it is hard to say.

People commonly mistake ‘weight gain’ with muscle gain. Here it is important to note that weight can be gained very fast indeed. Just go out there and eat all the junk food that comes passing by and don’t run, but stroll away, slowly, very slowly from any form of exercise and weight gain will take you by surprise by the time you get home. But here we’re talking about muscle gain, pure, simple, dry, shredded MUSCLE gain!

When one first sets out into an exercise routine, and sticks to it, muscle gain begin to form a graph. In the beginning, muscle gain is slowest; then it begins to go up. Muscle begins to grow tremendously fast after about five weeks of regular exercise. Then the growth, or graph, slows down and will ultimately reach a plateau. This plateau region of the graph can and needs to be avoided because muscle gain is at a bare minimum due to the muscles of the body have gotten used to a certain exercise routine and so they stop responding to the exercise. This is why exercises of the various muscle groups needs to be changed every five to six weeks.

People who set out to gain muscle and are in a hurry to put on some mass constantly complain that they have only gained five to six pounds of muscle in a period of three months of intense training complete with mass gaining supplements at all. Experienced builders and trainers cannot seem to understand why these guys are complaining! Five pounds of muscle gained in three months is something to write home about, but these pros also know that the five pounds is not just muscle but a lot of fat, water, and perhaps some beer thrown in too. The fact of the matter is that there is not a chance in hell one will gain more than 1 pound of pure dry muscle in a week. Now without some help from the chemists - if you know what I mean!