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PaperRay

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Well, i am new to this board, and i would like some advice
I was born skinny and i can't seem to gain much weight. i eat healthy and excessively to try to gain the weight, but it does not seem to work. Currently, i am trying to gain muscle mass. Does anyone have advice, any advice on this?
Sets? rep? which exercises best for which muscle group? etc.. open to any advice

Age: 15 , beginner to weight training
 
i can relate to being born skinny to, i put on some good weight last year, lost it this year though, but all i did was eat lots and lift heaps
 
Your only 15, for most people in the next few years you'll see natural weight gain anyway! But if your not gaining, its as simple as that your not eating enough.

Read the stickys in the weight training section.

And welcome ;)
 
Yeah, not eating enough is the key. Skinny people has a high metabolism so your body burns calories too damn quick lol, on top of that when you workout you'll burn even more calories. You need to eat more, or learn how to eat more, and then know how to work out. The less reps (due to amount of weight lifting) the bigger muscle mass you'll develop. As BigTomW suggested, you should read the stickys :)

Good luck!
 
As a Certified Personal Trainer, I can agree with the posts above about nutrition. I know you said you eat exessively but I can tell you know that it's still probably not enough. Most professional bodybuilders must take supplements that fuel their appetite just to force themselves to eat more than they normally would. So I would suggest, even though it may be hard, eat more! And if you are truly looking to add muscle mass, shoot to take in one gram of protein for every pound you are (120 g protein for 120 pounds lean muscle mass). Do this by eating lean meats like chicken, turkey, fish and possibly getting a protein supplement. With this, your goal for reps/sets should be 6-10 reps for 3-6 sets. I hope this helps!
 
clauber.cft@gma said:
if you are truly looking to add muscle mass, shoot to take in one gram of protein for every pound you are (120 g protein for 120 pounds lean muscle mass).
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Sorry to ask here, but what do you mean with this? 1g of protein for every pound of his body weight? So if I weight 196 I should be eating 196 g of protein?
 
I don't get why people think that's hard. I eat about 1.5 per lb of bodyweight without even really trying. I only eat meat twice a day.

You might need to eat more than most people your size, but there is a point where you will gain weight.

I weigh 193 and I'm currently eating 5000 calories a day to bulk (1 to 1.5 lbs a week) I cut at around 4000 cals
 
PaperRay said:
Well, i am new to this board, and i would like some advice
I was born skinny and i can't seem to gain much weight. i eat healthy and excessively to try to gain the weight, but it does not seem to work. Currently, i am trying to gain muscle mass. Does anyone have advice, any advice on this?
Sets? rep? which exercises best for which muscle group? etc.. open to any advice

Age: 15 , beginner to weight training
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You're 15!!!

Give yourself some time! I was like you when I was young, I could eat ENDLESSLY and not gain a ounce. I was 5'7" and 110 lbs. I would stuff my face all day long and just wouldn't gain anything.

But as I got older my body adjusted, and the metabolism started slowing down.

Start exercising, and eating right and get yourself into the healthy habits that will be GOLDEN for you in the future. It WILL happen, as you grow and as you get older, your body will change, and you'll be two steps ahead!

Give your body time.... You are WAY young to be worrying about getting "big".

I say Get Healthy! and you will become the best you will be :)
 
theGOOCH said:
right, I was skinny as hell and although I worked out, I was clueless about diet. I had no idea how many calories I was eating. I wanted to gain weight but "couldn't"
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ok, so you learned to eat right and exercise and you gained...naturally right?

I guess what i'm saying is, if you got bigger, then it was genetically possible for you already to get bigger you just had to find what worked for you.

If you had ate and ate and exercised and exercised and nothing happened, then it would be just as natural right?

some people take longer for their bodies to develope is what I was getting at. If he eats right and exercises, either he will or won't gain but at 15, his body still has a lot of changing to do and it could still happen at a later time for him....

yes?
 
Absolutely yes!

Your body doesn't really finish "growing" until you're about 25. And that's when you can start on your massive muscle gains. I'd have to confirm this, but I believe the human body's potential for building muscle maxes out at around 35.

I'm not saying you can't build muscle after that. It's just much more difficult because they are so many other factors coming into play.

Youth. It really is wasted on the young :D
 
Yes, you may have limitations as far as muscle growth, but it is possible to put on weight no matter who you are, there is a caloric level where your body has no choice
 
ok, so ty for all the advice, and im not sure if this makes a difference, but im not like the normal skinny either. its weird my doctor just tells me that im fine as long as i am eating right, red meat especially. And I do, but i an not normal. Im am underweight and i even look anorexic. My friends always joke that im a fat anorexic, cause i try to eat so much, but can't gain the weight. Once again, im not sure if this even matters, but just throwing that in as a factor
 
PaperRay said:
Well, i am new to this board, and i would like some advice
I was born skinny and i can't seem to gain much weight. i eat healthy and excessively to try to gain the weight, but it does not seem to work. Currently, i am trying to gain muscle mass. Does anyone have advice, any advice on this?
Sets? rep? which exercises best for which muscle group? etc.. open to any advice

Age: 15 , beginner to weight training
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Hey, young man! I give you the best wishes for success within all of your fitness goals.

Welcome to the finest fitness forum on the planet. Keep reaching for education young man, it will serve you well within life, and may you always act reasonably and prudent in your action and reaction to your personal goals you seek.

While one could question, how involved a 15 year old should get in knowing the basic mechanics of diet, it goes with out even saying the power this can bring to the table when reasonably applied at this age, and lets not undermine the power of a young man willing to try to understand and apply the well known truths. Additionally, you will gain knowledge that is far superior than most in the "general public" when comes to diet and fitness, and will serve you well into your adult life.

It's my opinion, at 15 you are at an advantage and disadvantage when it comes to diet and fitness. I say this because some of biological processes are not mature (or naturally fully developed yet) to take "full" advantage of your efforts in the gym; however, properly training and properly setting your nutrition/calories will set a solid and healthy foundation that will provide many obvious benefits with the "maturity set" that is already in place and/or taking place.

So, lets begin with your diet, briefly.

It is not all that uncommon for a healthy 15 year old male, to have a "healthy" and fast metabolism. In its most "raw" form, you deal with a high metabolism, with eating more. The problems happen when one "thinks" they are eating enough, but once their eating habits are thoroughly examined and compared to the known basics of nutrition (i.e. calories), one can sometimes learn they weren't eating as much as they thought they were. Additionally, you "may" have such a high metabolism, you may defy some of the rather accurate calorie approximators (i.e Benedict formula). In addition, I believe it is logical and prudent for the body to "need extra calories at this age because some of the "biological processes" during this age period is well, "rather expensive" to process. Of course, one can still eat over what one needs, I am just saying it is logical to need more nutrition/calories at this age as compared to an adult where this "maturity switch" is already off and has been for quite some time, and this is a major difference between you and another mature adult.

There is nothing wrong with taking the basic mechanics of diet, and comparing it to what you are presently doing, and adjusting your eating habits through the education it provides you. I am not saying get obsessive, what I am saying is to give you a "general idea" and a foundation to work from--to improve your situation, and adjust from this to combat your fast metabolism. Its my opinion, a healthy and fast metabolism even at your age can be effectively dealt with--reasonably.

With you being so young. And, to begin an educated talk on nutrition and calories, that will do you very well in your personal growth, this is what I want you to do.

I want you to teach yourself:

1. Your base calorie need.

This is the personally approximated calorie level one needs, if they laid in bed all day, and did nothing.

2. Your MT-Line.

This is the amount of approximated amount of calories one would need when considering all activities.

You go here and do this:

(Originally Posted by Wrangell)


Put your answers here for all to see.

It is quite possible, that these figures can be off--because your age (and the factors I outline in this post). But, this will give you an idea--to adjust from. In other words, if you are eating at a certain level of calories, and this isn't producing "HEALTHY WEIGHT GAIN", then you would increase your calories until you do.


Young man, I wish you the best.

Do not ever forget how important educating is. It is simply your best friend.


Best regards,


Chillen
 
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