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Originally Posted by Esoteric

Mark Rippentoe is a smart man for strength training, but he's an idiot when it comes to nutrition. His advice (he advises newbies to eat 6,000 calories a day), is just terrible.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/starting-...mark-rippetoe/

Info for eating;
http://scoobysworkshop.com/bodybuild...n-made-simple/
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...p?t=1563801833

Educate yourself before proceeding with a diet plan. Don't listen to bro-science. His caloric recommendations are terrible.

He doesn't advise all people to go to 6000 calories. He advises between 3500 and 6000. He also advises some pretty calorically demanding exercises to along with that.

I also don't know how you can question his nutrition advice, when nutrition is a key component to proper strength gains. If people are consistently gaining strength following his advice, he must be doing something right.

From my personal experience. I tried all the whey supplements. I was taking whey in the days and casein at night. I tried all the chicken/rice diets. I tried carb free diets, carb loading diets, etc...

What eventually worked was just eating an extra meal a day. I starting eating meals at 9, 12, 6, and 10. I'm 5'7'', and it took me about a 3500 calorie/day diet to eventually start gaining weight. I gained a little under a pound of body weight a week for half a year. About half of that was muscle.

I'm not saying everyone should do that. But if you're having trouble gaining weight....you need to eat more food.