In a new video on his YouTube channel, the bodybuilder and fitness influencer Will Tennyson breaks down the training and nutrition tips he found most helpful in his mission to pack on muscle and go from skinny to muscular. “It’s sad but it’s true, it’s 80 percent diet, 20 percent training,” she says.
Tennyson’s first tip is to introduce a variety of proteins into your diet if you haven’t already, including eggs, quick-cook steaks, Greek yogurt, fish, turkey sausage and cheese. “In the old days, there was only chicken and turkey breast,” he says. “The more red meat I eat, the more I’ve noticed my body composition change for the better.”
He goes on to demonstrate how to make a macro-friendly breakfast burrito with egg whites, turkey sausage, and avocado. And this leads to your second point: whatever your allotted number of daily calories is, eat them throughout the day. “I used to be so obsessed with keeping my calories down during the day, extremely low in fat, and saving all my calories for the night,” he says. “I felt like crap during the day, all I wanted to do was binge, so I have personally found that the more I spread out my calories throughout the day, the less I want to binge and the better my workouts are. You don’t need to have a plenty of food, but spread it out a little more evenly, don’t save it all for the night, and you’ll notice some performance gains.”
Moving on to training tips, Tennyson explains that as he’s learned more and more about what works for him personally, he’s ditched the barbell back squat entirely in favor of the hack squat. “He can put more volume into his quads and push closer to failure without worrying about risking injury, especially to his lower back,” he says. Similarly, he adds that he has been favoring the Smith machine bench press over the traditional barbell version.
On his one-arm rows, Tennyson likes to make the most of the negative part of the rep by performing a dead center variation, stopping the bar on the ground at the bottom of the movement to make the concentric movement more difficult. and maximize the stretch reflex.
Although he takes many supplements to support his gains, Tennyson only recommends creatine monohydrate. “A lot of people who take it don’t even notice the difference, but they try to quit,” he says.
Finally, Tennyson advises staying on top of your cardio. In addition to taking his 10,000 steps a day, he incorporates rowing exercises into his routine. “The last thing you want to do in the gym is fail that lift because of your heart, not the actual muscle you’re training,” he says. “I found that by just doing 20 minutes a day, not that much, when I get to later parts of my workout and later parts of my sets, I can keep it going much longer, therefore more volume and more muscle growth.”
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