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Anonymous
Well, I started around 5 months ago; I was skinny 125lb, 5'10". Now I'm around 140 on the scale.
Diet and making sure that you're doing high weight/low rep are the two most important things for skinny guys. The third most important thing is sleep, but you just do as well as you can with that.
With diet, you need to be hitting at least 1g of protein per 1lb of fat and make sure that your diet is something along the lines of 45-35-20 carbs-protein-fat.
I started doing whole body workouts 3 times a week, but around 3 months in I switched to half body workouts M/Tues and Thurs/Friday, alternating of course.
Just make sure that whatever lifts you do, that you don't do more than 8 reps per set and make sure that you're doing enough weight that a theoretical 9th rep would really be pushing it.
In some sense you just have to get started and be really diligent with eating. You'll probably have to eat more than you're used to at more times of day. Try to get 500+ calories more than you're expending so you can start tacking on muscle.
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