Hello friends. Basically I spent most of my life as a skinny, verbal and physical punching bag for everyone. By freshman year of college I was done growing and tipped the scales at 129 lbs. - and I was 6'1"
Well I finally started weightlifting 5 years ago as a sophomore but I am a "hard gainer" with a high metabolism and I have a thin bone structure, so putting on weight has been verrrrrry slow. Drinking 3 nights a week in college didn't help either I'm sure.
Over the last year I have been taking whey protein and creatine which have helped a lot, and I've been lifting higher weight and lower reps. I can currently bench 225x10 for one set, which is good for my weight - but my problem is that although my strength has been increasing steadily, my weight has plateau'd.
So I have two questions:
1. What can I change to start gaining again?
2. What area does it look like I need to work on the most? I was thinking shoulders maybe?
I don't have a pic from when I was 129 lbs. (thankfully) but:
1st pic is from this summer at 175 lbs.
2nd pic: On the left is 2.5 years ago on spring break when I was up to 150 lbs. On the right is half a year ago at 170 lbs. and approx. 7% body fat (still 6'1").
Well I finally started weightlifting 5 years ago as a sophomore but I am a "hard gainer" with a high metabolism and I have a thin bone structure, so putting on weight has been verrrrrry slow. Drinking 3 nights a week in college didn't help either I'm sure.
Over the last year I have been taking whey protein and creatine which have helped a lot, and I've been lifting higher weight and lower reps. I can currently bench 225x10 for one set, which is good for my weight - but my problem is that although my strength has been increasing steadily, my weight has plateau'd.
So I have two questions:
1. What can I change to start gaining again?
2. What area does it look like I need to work on the most? I was thinking shoulders maybe?
I don't have a pic from when I was 129 lbs. (thankfully) but:
1st pic is from this summer at 175 lbs.
2nd pic: On the left is 2.5 years ago on spring break when I was up to 150 lbs. On the right is half a year ago at 170 lbs. and approx. 7% body fat (still 6'1").
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