How to get bigger? Muscle, fat, doesn't matter, I'm tiny

[mrSHEiK124]

I'm 67-69 inches tall, I only weigh 130 pounds, and I've got really tiny forearms, most people can wrap their fingers (tip of thumb to tip of index) around my wrist. I've tried doing alot to gain weight and just body mass in general, I eat 2 or 3 times as much as I used to, so much that its gotten to the point where people wonder how the hell I haven't become a 300 pound tub of lard. Just eating on its own isn't helping me at all, or maybe I'm just not eating the right things; any specific excercises or foods I should be doing/eating?

 

[Deeko]

Eat a lot, go to the GYM. Lift. Lift primarily heavy sets (reps of no more than 10, maybe pyramid sets of 10-8-6-4). Eat more. Drink protein shakes.

When I came to college I weighed about 125 (5'6"). I put on 25 pounds the first year, and I've put on another 15 since. Basically using the formula above.

 

[compnovice]

Does the 124 in your user name denote your weight...
If yes, Congrats you just gained 6 pounds

 

[Whisper]

Honestly, if you want to gain weight (of any kind, as you put it), you'll just need to eat more, plain and simple. Wrapping your fingers around your wrist isn't necessarily the best indicator. I can do that still, and I've been working out for 6.5 years. The wrist is a good way of measuring the general size of your frame, but it's not an area that'll grow huge (or much bigger at all) in most instances.

You could always try some kind of weight training regimen, as muscle weighs more than fat. But it might be more helpful if you listed a rough estimate of what it is you eat per day. Saying that you eat "a lot" isn't much information, as everyone's definition of "a lot" is quite different.

 

[JDrake]

:shocked:

 

[Crescent13]

Hey we're the same! I just went to the doctor and they said I was 67 inches and I weighed 129 pounds! Congrats we match now lol. I'm glad I'm the way I am, better than being fat I figure, and I'm also much more agile than most other people. I'm not going to try to change who I am, I'm a skinny geek, and proud of it!

EDIT: But I'm 14 years old, so that might have something do to with my size.

 

[saxophonoia]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Eat a lot, go to the GYM. Lift. Lift primarily heavy sets (reps of no more than 10, maybe pyramid sets of 10-8-6-4). Eat more. Drink protein shakes.

When I came to college I weighed about 125 (5'6"). I put on 25 pounds the first year, and I've put on another 15 since. Basically using the formula above.

This is what I'm currently doing and it works.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: compnovice
Does the 124 in your user name denote your weight...
If yes, Congrats you just gained 6 pounds

:laugh: Its just a random number, but once I lost 6 pounds when I was out in bed for a little more than a week cause of a really really bad case of the flu, along with some nasty respiratory problems.

Originally posted by: Deeko
Eat a lot, go to the GYM. Lift. Lift primarily heavy sets (reps of no more than 10, maybe pyramid sets of 10-8-6-4). Eat more. Drink protein shakes.

When I came to college I weighed about 125 (5'6"). I put on 25 pounds the first year, and I've put on another 15 since. Basically using the formula above.

I go to the gym maybe once a week with friends, but they all dick around, and we all look like retards over there anyways, 99% of the time they just want to play basketball instead of lifting weights. Eating more, if I eat any more I really think the food will begin to ooze out of all my bodily orifices, I'll have to try the protein shakes, or at least some protein bars because I heard protein shakes taste really freakin nasty. As for lifting, lifting what? Curls, benching, what exactly? And what defines heavy?

 

[xtknight]

Yeah workouts should help a lot.

 

[Mrvile]

Eat a lot of protein (meat, nuts, shakes), go and lift.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

What I eat:
Breakfast - I'll make a sandwich in the morning when I'm really lazy, most of the times I'll have a fried egg or two.
Lunch - 99% of the time its a hoagie filled with roast beef or turkey, gotta find something more fattening to put in them.
Lunch 2 - After school I try and eat out when I can, large Angus at Quizno's, maybe a double cheeseburger value meal at Wendy's.
Dinner - Arab cooking, alot of rice, alot of red meat.
Dinner 2 (sometimes) - Right before I go to sleep I'll usually have another serving of whatever I had for dinner, or just make some kind of quick snack.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Eat a lot, go to the GYM. Lift. Lift primarily heavy sets (reps of no more than 10, maybe pyramid sets of 10-8-6-4). Eat more. Drink protein shakes.

When I came to college I weighed about 125 (5'6"). I put on 25 pounds the first year, and I've put on another 15 since. Basically using the formula above.

Good suggestion. If you want to get bigger in the right way, you gotta do anaerobic exercise. Muscle weighs more than fat too.

I'm in the same pickle as you, I'm 18 and I've been working out since mid-February and I've gotten a lot more muscular, although I still weigh the same. I'm still pretty darn thin.

I bought Power 90 (google it) and after 2 months I stopped doing the cardio portion because I don't need to lose weight, I just do the ab workout and Sculpt! circuits now.

It takes a lot of dedication and devotion to get into shape, it also takes a long time.

 

[Jeff7181]

Screw protein shakes and lifting weights... beer and potato chips worked for me.

 

[Brackis]

I'm 6'2" 147 so hush.

 

[Deeko]

Protein only will help you if you lift.

Get new lifting partners, or lift alone. Simply put, if you want to get bigger, you've gotta lift. As for what is heavy, that depends on YOU. If you're doing a pyramid set like I described above, you go up in weight, and lower the reps, with every set. How much weight you do in each set depends on how much you CAN do.

As for what to do? Everything. For chest, do bench, incline, flies...biceps do different variations of curls, triceps do pushdowns, "skull crushers", dips, for back do lat pulls, pullups, rows, for legs do squats, lunges, leg extensions & curls, calf raises, for lower back do deadlifts, shoulders do shoulder(military) press, lateral raises...

Of course those are just examples, there are tons of different exercises for each muscle group. What I'd recommend is going 3 days a week (MWF is always good), start off doing 1 exercise per muscle group, most or all muscle groups a day, for a couple of weeks to acclimate your body to the exercises. Then start doing muscle-specific days, for examples chest and tris on monday, back and bis on wednesday, legs on fridays...

 

[Throwmeabone]

Pyramid sets are ineffective. Try this, I love it! http://www.ast-ss.com/max-ot/max-ot_intro.asp

 

[Sukhoi]

http://www.bodybuilding.com
http://www.exrx.net
http://www.bulknutrition.com for protein. Try Optimum Nutrition chocolate 100% whey.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
Pyramid sets are ineffective. Try this, I love it! http://www.ast-ss.com/max-ot/max-ot_intro.asp

Plenty effective for someone who never lifts. Those specialty lifting programs are generally bullsh!t anyway, my roommate swears by hypertrophy-specifc lifting, and in two years he has gained 5 pounds of mass, even while doing creatine.

 

[suse920]

i'm 6'3 163lbs
i've gained about 13 pounds since working out and lost what little fat i had to spare to begin with. Just try to gain muscle so you'll at least look ripped with your little body fat %

oh then again i am 15

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i came to uni weighin 10.5 stone, now im cloing in on 12 stone

all ive done is eat more, and combined it with more focused training (ie in swimming i mainly focus on sprints and shorter distances, in the GYM its all about lifting my own body weight, no free weights or otherwise involved, just my body)

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
What I eat:
Breakfast - I'll make a sandwich in the morning when I'm really lazy, most of the times I'll have a fried egg or two.
Lunch - 99% of the time its a hoagie filled with roast beef or turkey, gotta find something more fattening to put in them.
Lunch 2 - After school I try and eat out when I can, large Angus at Quizno's, maybe a double cheeseburger value meal at Wendy's.
Dinner - Arab cooking, alot of rice, alot of red meat.
Dinner 2 (sometimes) - Right before I go to sleep I'll usually have another serving of whatever I had for dinner, or just make some kind of quick snack.

You might want to watch what you eat..

I would switch to egg whites in the morning. 2 @ 7:30 and 2 more at 8 or 9:30
Lunch - grill chicken at 11:30 and again at 1:30
Early Dinner - salad with grill chicken 5:30
Dinner - more grill chicken or turkey at 7:30

You want to put nutrition into your body not cholesterol/heart attack causing junk like quiznos

 

[car3]

you're fine, in the weight range for your height

I, on the other hand, need to gain weight - 65" and 85 pounds

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: car3
you're fine, in the weight range for your height

I, on the other hand, need to gain weight - 65" and 85 pounds

umm... you sure?

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: car3
you're fine, in the weight range for your height

I, on the other hand, need to gain weight - 65" and 85 pounds

I thought <90 was immediate visit to the hospital and diagnosis of anorexia

 

[car3]

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: car3
you're fine, in the weight range for your height

I, on the other hand, need to gain weight - 65" and 85 pounds

I thought <90 was immediate visit to the hospital and diagnosis of anorexia

my dr knows..