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Anonymous
Okay /fit/ I need your help.

i'm 6'2 and weigh about 148-152 not exactly sure.

Anyways i'm really frickin skinny ( not anorexic skinny though just thin i guess) and I cant gain weight no matter how much shit i eat.

My buddy got me a 15 pound and 25 pound wieght for my birthday, and i've been using those and have noticed a little bit of tone in my arms, but thier still really skinny.

How do I build up my muscles to make my arms larger? and i also want to define my stomach a little, ive been doing a bajillion situps and havnt seen any change.

Any help or suggestions for workout routines will be very usefull.

Also Im to broke to go to the gym and dont know where to buy steroids. lol.

Pic unrelated but awesome
>> Anonymous
The best thing to do is instead of working out just two muscle groups, you should do a whole body workout:
http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com/workout/week1.html

Also, doing the same workouts for too long wont do any good. You need to alternate between different workouts
>> Mark !tsGpSwX8mo
>>250879
Keep working out you won't be cut or big in a few months just keep doing your exercises and cardio(you'll get there inventualy). And for the thin thing just keep eating 2,500 calories a day (small meals more gains) It's not easy for a thin guy to gain weight trust me I was stuck in 149 (I'm 6'0) for a while but Slowly I went gaining about 1lbs of muscle every week (no whey or creatine).
>> Mark !tsGpSwX8mo
>>250883
eventually*
how the fuck did I misspell that.
>> Anonymous
> I cant gain weight no matter how much shit i eat.

Try harder.

Eat more.

It's basic physics - energy in > energy out = store energy (gain weight)

You can NOT gain weight unless you eat more calories than you utilise... it's mathematically impossible.
>> Anonymous
All ive been doing b4 i started working out is witting and playing videogames, occasionally driving to a friends house to play video games.

I think i have a really fast metabolism, i eat more then all my friends. Except that everything that goes in comes out, I dont retain anything or somthing.
>> Anonymous
>>250898

Are you having 6 full meals per day? as in like a steak, maybe a protein shake, maybe some pasta?

If not, eat more.
>> Anonymous
uhh 6 full meals? wow no I usually have three full meals and lots of snacks in between
>> Anonymous
>>250923

Exactly, eat more then, pussy
>> Anonymous
>>250933
Yeah you tell that fuckin pussy
>> Anonymous
Not OP here.

How the fuck do you guys eat chicken steak fish and pasta 6 times a day?

I'd run out of money before I threw up from stuffing my face until i puked i bet.
>> Anonymous
lol. I thought that was eating a lot. fuck. I dont know if its physically possible for me to eat more. I always eat till i cant eat anymore. Guess I got a small stomach or somthing. Godamnit. Im gonna have the biggest shits in the world.
>> Anonymous
>>250945
Well, if he wants to get bigger, he really only has one option
>> Anonymous
look here quirbag, u need to go to gym and hit heavy weight, eat alot , stack creatine and protein with a multivitamin. for ur height , ur anorexic
>> Anonymous
Op here, so i need to gain weight and am a pussy accoding to you guys.

Give me a run down of what I should be eating, like for 1 day please, meal by meal, include any kind of supplements or protein powerders and whatnot ( also where to buy them and what they are cause i have no idea).

I will do exactly what you say /fit/. (long as its sensible)
>> Anonymous
>>251022
Fuck writing you a meal plan, learn what is good and what isn't.
>> Anonymous
Well I dont know what is good and what isnt thats why Im asking /fit/
>> Anonymous
6'3 H-A metabolism anon here

between the ages of 15-25 I had to constantly be eating or my body would basically start cannibalizing itself. All my stupid friends thought it must have been the bestest to stuff your face and not gain any weight. I felt like that guy in Thinner. And whenever I'd start a workout regimen it'd just make it worse. I moved out of my parents' house at 17 because I was ashamed of how hard they had to work to feed me. I went to Job Corps, not so much for the training, but because the food was free and I could eat as much as I wanted within meal hours. shit was not cash.

When I was 26 I was downgraded from hyperaccellerated to merely accellerated. The only difference by that time was I'd stopped carrying food on me wherever I went and just pretty much made a pig of myself every few hours.
>> Anonymous
I'm thirty now and eat between six square meals a day or three hueg ones. I've cultivated a lifestyle where I work 10-12 hours, come home, vegitate. I got up to 172 a couple months ago (I'd never topped 168 till then) and started working out under doctor's orders to get fit with a target weight of 180 (my weight coach in college was convinced my frame should hold 200 easy... trying to live up to that was frustrating to say the least). So I start working out, light stuff but on a regular basis and lo and behold suddenly I'm 166 again and starving all the time.

BUT.

people have pointed out that I am hanging more meat off my frame than before. The chub I worked so hard to build up is melting away (not as fast as I'd like 'round the midsection, mind you) and my musculature is the most developed it's ever been. Not that I don't have a long way to go.

My point in all this is frustration is a bitch. I've had so many people get upset with me when they see how much I eat. When I used to hang out with models? Forget about it. No-one wants to be reminded of the yummy fun food they're giving up for their career. When chronically overweight people who can't get thin see me eat? I disgust them and it actually came to blows before. I told one of them "Hey, we have the same issue. We're at war with our bodies. Just at the opposite ends of the spectrum. You think I can't equate or sympathise with the body that carries you around being a traitor, wondering what you're doing wrong every time you look in the mirror?"
>> Anonymous
If you really want to gain mass and are too broke for the gym, you have a few choices.

1. get a job that pays enough to feed you and put you in the gym.

2. wait for your metabolism to slow down (or slow it down by artificial means)

3. give up.

Some of the points here so far are pretty good. alternating your workout is one, having access to a gym will help with that.

Eating more is also valid, but keep in mind what you're eating. I ate nothing but Hostess products for a month once to try and get some chunk but all I did was get really sick and now I can't even look at chocodiles or ding-dongs anymore :(

Start with basic, healthy food. Cut out eating anywhere with a drive-up, for starters. First off, fast-food is garbage, and second, it's cheaper to buy good food at the store and prepare it yourself.
Fresh food is best. Canned, boxed, and frozen meals are loaded with preservatives and other crap that will work counter to your goal. Sure, have some, fine. But make sure the bulk of what you eat is fresh.

Vary what you eat. different meats, vegetables, etc. Start with the food pyramid and avoid things that are obviously crap.
>> Anonymous
One big slice of advice that I can say I learnt from experience is LEARN HOW TO COOK. This way, you'll know how to make simple, healthy food taste good without having to season the crap out of it or drown it in grease to make it yummy. There's so much food out there and so many ways to prepare it that it's a shame not to learn to cook for yourself and enjoy finding your new favorite dishes. The more you learn to cook for yourself, the more you'll eat. The more you eat, the higher your intake, the higher your intake, the more fuel your body will have to build on.

also one issues might be your level of activity. If all you do is write and play video games, your body doesn't need to build muscle. Push it a little more. Or a lot more. Start by riding a bike or skating or jogging whenever possible. Pick one. At the least get a Wii fit lol. And if you happen to smoke ciggarettes then STOP! not just coz it's bad for you but smoking will rob you of tons of calories a day. Pick up a pot habit and then you'll be eating a LOT more often. Wait. Ignore that last part.

Go to the library and research fitness and workouts if you can't or are unable/unwilling to do what it takes to afford a gym and/or trainer.


There's plenty you can do. Line up your options, start at one end, and work your way through them till something works. Good luck!
>> Anonymous
how long have you been working out since you got the weights?
>> Anonymous
You are an ectomorph, like me. You have to work twice as hard to make gains as a mesomorph, but you can burn fat REALLY quick. This isn't a bad thing, but understand you will never ever get as big as, say, Arnold or Lou. You can get cut, you can get defined, and you can bulk out, but you will never be a professional monster.

That said:

Read up at bodybuilding.com, read ALL the beginners editorials. Understand HOW muscle grows (hint: it doesn't grow when you work out, it grows when you're resting).

Buy a few more freeweights and learn a FULL set of dumbbell exercises. Create a week long workout split and stick to it. Buy a cheap bench, even a flat one will do, get it off ebay or something.

EAT. Eat meat and protein, eat five or six average meals a day. Sip water ALL day and during your workouts.

You will begin to see cuts and mass after you stick to a HARD split and heavy protein diet after about 4 weeks, probably more like 8. Don't bother checking until 4, you won't notice much. It takes months to get into real proper hard gym shape where you can even begin to swing real weight.