Muscle Building for the Ecto/Mesomorph

[MJinZ]

I will never understand how anyone has trouble eating 3000 calories a day when I can easily down 4000 of solid food without even thinking about it.

OP, you weigh less than my skeleton (and you're taller than me), don't dismiss squats and other leg work so flippantly. Big compound lifts such as squats and deadlifts provoke a hormonal response that will cause your whole body, not just your legs, to adapt and grow (if you're eating enough). Here's an article that has some good tips for getting bigger arms.

tl;dr - Get on a proper strength training program and gain at least 30-40 pounds, then you can worry about "teh gunz." Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

I NEVER do arms, and I have huge arms.

I hate hate huge arms because I care more about symmetry and balance.

The only thing I don't mind is forearm strength, but the stronger overall I get, the bigger my upper arms get and it tends to unbalance my forearms.

:twisted:

probably stems from the fact that I hate hate hate hate people who have big arms and a completely weakling-ass body otherwise. It makes them look like a freaking retards!

 

[TridenT]

I will never understand how anyone has trouble eating 3000 calories a day when I can easily down 4000 of solid food without even thinking about it.

OP, you weigh less than my skeleton (and you're taller than me), don't dismiss squats and other leg work so flippantly. Big compound lifts such as squats and deadlifts provoke a hormonal response that will cause your whole body, not just your legs, to adapt and grow (if you're eating enough). Here's an article that has some good tips for getting bigger arms.

tl;dr - Get on a proper strength training program and gain at least 30-40 pounds, then you can worry about "teh gunz." Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

People have different receptors that send different signals to their brain to tell them when they're full and such. For example, it takes hardly anything until I get a very full feeling most of the time. If I push over that full feeling then I'll be regretting it in 30 minutes to a couple hours after eating when I shit everything out. People have different bodies...

 

[MJinZ]

People have different receptors that send different signals to their brain to tell them when they're full and such. For example, it takes hardly anything until I get a very full feeling most of the time. If I push over that full feeling then I'll be regretting it in 30 minutes to a couple hours after eating when I shit everything out. People have different bodies...

Yea, you guys are evolutionarily disadvantaged in a resource limited environment.

 

[marsbound2024]

Yea, you guys are evolutionarily disadvantaged in a resource limited environment.

To me it would seem the opposite. In a resource-limited environment, it doesn't take much to fill us up. Why is that disadvantageous? Just curious.

 

[TridenT]

To me it would seem the opposite. In a resource-limited environment, it doesn't take much to fill us up. Why is that disadvantageous? Just curious.

This. People on caloric restricted diets tend to have higher life expectancies and live longer without food in the wild.

 

[marsbound2024]

This. People on caloric restricted diets tend to have higher life expectancies and live longer without food in the wild.

Sounds good to me.

 

[SlitheryDee]

To me it would seem the opposite. In a resource-limited environment, it doesn't take much to fill us up. Why is that disadvantageous? Just curious.

In the wild the way it usually goes is there are long periods with little or no food followed by extremely short periods with lots of food. A person with a larger appetite could take better advantage of the periods with lots of food because they can eat much more in a short period of time and build up the fat stores necessary to last through the dry spells. Someone with a minimal appetite who eats a tiny portion of the food and allows the rest to spoil or be carried off by scavengers would either starve or be so weak with hunger during the lean periods that they could not compete with the individuals who "tanked up" when food was available.

 

[MJinZ]

To me it would seem the opposite. In a resource-limited environment, it doesn't take much to fill us up. Why is that disadvantageous? Just curious.

Fat. It's nature's refrigerated leftovers.

 

[marsbound2024]

Fat. It's nature's refrigerated leftovers.

True. But I can see it both ways. For those of us without much fat AND who can't eat a lot to begin with, then we'd probably be ok with a small amount of food resources. However, we need at least some so if none exist, then yeah, we are screwed.