Hey guys. I'm male, just turned 24, I'm 5'5 short, and weigh a whopping 114 pounds.
Understand your personal particulars.
I have a pretty small frame too. Everyone thinks I'm skinny, and from the stats I gave you I'm probably considered underweight, but my shirt seems to cover up what's really there.
I think it is fairly safe to say, young man, you need to build some muscle on your frame, and are carrying a little extra body fat, which is normally termed as skinny-fat. Which can basically mean that the muscle mass to fat ratio is a little off, but its nothing you can not fix with a little bit of self education, work, and patience.
Of course I'd like to get a six-pack sometime, but, I really want to focus on just getting a "blend". Like, my stomach overhangs, and I don't want that. I want it to blend into below the stomach, like I see a lot of other guys have.
This is my short opinion:
You have two problems at present: 1. Not enough muscle muscle mass (basically your frame is skinny), 2. You are carrying (a tad excess body fat), which alters your body composition and hides the muscle composite you do have.
Focus attention on learning proper nutrition, construction of a strength training routine (with high energy), lifting form, and focus on getting stronger. The rest will follow once you've built up a good foundation.
Though what works from one person to the next will vary, what is termed as "orderly control" within one's lifestyle is another way of saying you have to have some degree of control (or simply apply enough of you) to earn the goal you seek. Within your specific circumstances, this is going to mean some control on your diet and some consistency in fitness training, and adapting (nutrition, calories) where applicable dependent on the nature of your personal feed back.
I assume you never trained or applied some principled diet approaches before, is this assumption correct?
1. Determine your personal calorie needs (BMR Base, + activities)
2. Get an approximation of your "normal" or "near normal/average" macro nutrients in grams, and determine these ratios through the calorie ranges used.
3. Set up a resistance program tailored to the equipment you have available, and enable it at least 3 to 4 times per week.
I don't have weights; instead I have resistance bands. I asked my bro if he had weights and he doesn't, but his fiance has the P90X workout series and said I could borrow it until I'm done.
Do you guys think P90x would help me? Plus eating more?
Advising you just to eat more, is just too generic and simple. Basically a person, can plow down food stuff/items, perform a resistance program, and get fat.
There needs to be some purpose, self control, design and purpose, behind it to attempt to limit the bad, and solicit as much good as possible.
Resistance Bands, adjoined with body weight training, and some experimentation with items around the house, can do the job. And do the job quite well, with your personal goals in mind.
Reference the p90X:
Its seems a lot of people get the idea, that one has to primarily weight train to lose tissue and/or stay in shape, etc, etc. Well, dependent one's personal goal, this is simply not the case. There are vast number of ways to go about it, not limited to Weight Training.
One of the highlights of this program (of what limited knowledge I have of it), is that it focuses on "expending high amounts of energy" in a series of fitness exercises (including body weight), and this would fit within your limited equipment you expressed.
Coupled with a diet supporting your goal, this is very "beneficial" toward the application of your goal wants. Additionally, it doesn't really require fancy equipment, so on base principle.....its not a bad program. I actually like the body weight and "expending high amounts of energy" focus it provides. Primarily because when losing tissue "expending quality energy" is critical for fat loss, and it does focus on that. Additionally, it focuses on progression and strength, all of which are beneficial in varying forms.
Best wishes
Chillen
