How can I improve this measurements?

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piotr

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I don't know if this is the right place but here it goes:

15 years old male
Height - 170cm or 5'7''
Weight - 55kg or 121 pounds
Chest - 81cm or 31,7 inches
Waist - 69cm or 27 inches

When I look at the mirror, I think my chest is kind of small - not the circumference but one side to the other. It's hard to get a precise measurement but I estimate something about 10 inches. I took this measurement with approximatly the visible part of my chest [1/2 inch from my nipples] with a hard rule.
I know this isn't anything near from precise but you can have an idea.

1- I am skinny as a think I am?

2- How can I enlage this particular measurment for example?

3 -When I get older, it will enlarge from it own [I'm only 15, my body is not completly formed]?

4- Swimming/Indoor climbing and some bodyweight exercises are enough to enlarge my body?

5- With the exercises above, can I increase my chest measurements to ~39 for example, without getting bulky?

6- There is anything I can do to change this situation?

I know genetics represents a huge role here. My father for example is anything near skinny - but no fat too. He has large chest and shoulders - but no bulk. When I get older, I will be like him or I stuck here for a long time?
 
at 5'7", 121 pounds is underweight.

so,
1. yes, you could stand to gain some muscle mass
2. exercise...heavy weights. eat good food, and plenty of it
3. probably. i didn't get taller after I was 18, but my shoulders, rib cage and hips all widened up a bit still.
4. swimming isn't much of a mass builder. climbing is, though as i understand it, your arms hold...the legs actually do most of hte 'climbing'. bodyweight only gets you so far, and then you need more weight.
5. possibly...though i'm not sure what you mean by 'bulky'. do you mean too muscled? too much added fat?

6. see above. there's nothing that says you'll turn out anything like your dad's body.
 
piotr said:
I know genetics represents a huge role here. My father for example is anything near skinny - but no fat too. He has large chest and shoulders - but no bulk. When I get older, I will be like him or I stuck here for a long time?
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While genetics (and biological efficiency) DO play a role in our physiques, one can do A LOT in changing their bodily composition through diet and exercise. THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

You cannot "accurately" judge your future physical appearance "necessarily" by what your father looks like.

For example, if your father did no fitness training for YEARS (or none at all in life, as an example), then he is succuming to his diet and activity disposition through the years where genetics and biological processes determined many things overtime.

He could have gained alot of fat due to poor diet and eating too much. He also may have lost muscle mass due to age (as we age muscle density and mass can decline faster, IMO, --with no stumulus to the contrary)

In contrast, if your father would have been training and appropriate changing things in diet, I would bet a lot money, he would look drastically different than he does now--even at his age.

Though one's genetics and biological efficiency can cause SOME problems, and can determine (how one fills out, or is shaped, as an example), there is no doubt YOU can due DRASTIC IMPROVEMENTS and MODIFICATIONS to your bodily composition just through diet and fitness activities.


I wrote this for a different member a while back that may have some benefit for you.......just read between the lines....

When I first began, I knew NOTHING about diet and fitness. And, knew that this needed to be fixed in order for me to earn my goal.

When you begin, examine yourself. DO NOT "sugar coat" anything. Bare your soul, open it up. Accept the truth. There is no other way to implant ingredients to improve the self than beginning from a "truth base".

If you cannot afford a personal trainer.

You have to become "your own personal trainer."

A lot joining the forum, miss this valid point.

And, you reach in an grab the passion and desire to educate yourself in doing just that, then you surround yourself with the equipment you can afford to work with to get the goal you desire completed.

Then apply yourself, pressing education in what you are doing.

We are pressing more than body weight and/or weights here. We have to press the brain cells in our goal path.

When you fall and make mistakes, you get up infinite amount of times it takes, until you reach your goal destination using what you educated yourself with and adjust/adapt to bodily feedback.

Be an "appropriate" slave driver, and you will learn the body can withstand more than you original thought.

I am 46. I am near 47 (in just about 8 weeks). I KNOW I lost a step due to age.

WHAT THE HECK CAN I DO ABOUT IT?

You do NOT see 47 year olds in professional football playing competitively no matter the shape, do you?

I say this to make a point. Know your personal limitations, embrace them. Accept them as they are. But, do NOT ALLOW it to hinder your TRUE abilities. We all have abilities, we just have to bring them out.

In contrast, I can out lift (in weight 1R MAX, on deads, and bench, my youngest 19 year old son, and he weighs nearly 50 pounds more than I, and much bigger).

While this may seem as a small triumph, in reality, I am trying to prove to my son---it isnt OVER until its OVER. Did the bell suddenly "ding" because of age? The round isnt over until you say its over. Is the coffin shut? Do not put yourself in a self-coffin-EVER!

We laugh and we move the spirit. He calls me an "old man", and I love it.

And, YOU decide when its over and how far you can take your body and what nature has given you.

A personal test to see if you are finished:

Do you have a blood pulse? Was that a yes?

Then it isnt over.


So, when reading this rather brief post, what do YOU think YOU need to do to earn your goal?


Best wishes,


Chillen
 
Thank you for the answers but I still have some questions about this.
I think my diet is really good, no junk food nor candies, lots of vegetables, grains and some meat. My regular dish is basically rice [sometime beans too], red or white meat [without excessive fat] and a nice salad, for drinking a home squeezed natural juice, usually orange.
I'm don't eat a lot - only the essential and maybe a fruit during the day.

I forgot to say I do have some muscles, nothing impressive but I'm no bone-skin. I think my problem is in the bone structure. I don't have a picture nor ways of take it 'til August - maybe a little later. You can have the idea from my chest/waist measurements.

You guys are much more experienced than me, what is your suggestions to make my chest open up? If my problem is my bone structure, it will grow later right?

I just want to remember, my goal isn't becoming huge muscular, I just don't want to be skinny anymore and maybe get some muscles definition, nothing exagerated.

Thanks in advance.
 
simply put man you just gotta work for it. It might be hard, being a skinnier, smaller person, but you should see results pretty quick just starting out. Buy a membership to your local gym, and get to it :)
 
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