I'm not working out to fit the social norm, I'm working out to be healthy. I'm deathly underweight and it's terrifying that after the amount of food I intake on a regular basis I still have yet to gain enough weight to make a noticeable difference. Most of my chick friends absolutely hate me for that sort of metabolism. And while eating away my problems is an option available to me because of it, it's now becoming a nuisance. Being an 18 year old, 5'8, and with the muscle definition that I have, you wouldn't expect me to be 125 pounds. Kids in middle school weigh more than me what is this.
ik what you mean man, I'm going through the ame thing. You should be lucky though, I'm 5'11 and 115 lbs. all I can say is eat more protein and try not to burn too many calories.
I'm glad I'm not the only person going through this. ;n;
I went through literally the same thing when I was 18 actually. You're not supposed to be heavier right now, work on making that muscle dense and increasing your physicality, besides, are you really that interested in females that rank you based on physical appearance?
I've been training for a while now, I don't like to show off my physique in fact I try to never even talk about it. Training to me is natural, it's like instinct. I don't force myself to train so I don't need the reinforcement you seek now. My training is like a child playing, joyously.
Just focus on learning right now, I'm sure you've heard it a thousand times but you're going to fill out as you get older. Enjoy being a sleek sexy teen.
You've got me all wrong friend. I have to restate to you that none of this is in the interest of appealing to others. This is me appealing to myself. I tend to work out in the yard a lot and find myself struggling to carry certain things that tend to seem easy for my older brother and father. I feel useless at that point. You can muscle define all you want but the more mass you have the more you are capable of taking up physically demanding tasks. And I plan on continuing to do such things even once I move out of the house. I never flaunt my physical structure to others.
Perhaps you should reconsider how you value your own physicality.
What you said about muscle mass isn't the whole truth, body type has much more to do with what tasks you're good at than muscle mass. My friend who can leg press a thousand pounds has way more muscle mass than I do. When we work moving jobs in the summer, you better believe that he can lift more weight than I can. But when the time comes for climbing or getting into hard to reach spots, or to move with haste I have a clear advantage. In the mean time I'm not going to consider myself useless, I'm going to play my role in helping out. At the gym he can leg press a thousand pounds and impress an audience, I can do the same with a pull-up bar. We're just built differently.
If mass was what most decided superior physicality, then why is it that we've evolved all these different body types?
No need to be down on yourself, bro. The only person you should compete with is yourself.
No matter how much I eat, I cannot exeed 100 pounds. I usually stay in between 90-97. Mother says that it's just my fast metabolism breaking the food down to energy before it goes to my fat storage. But I would much rather hear the facts from stickpage forum members. The hell does mom know, anyway. c:
No matter how much I eat, I cannot exeed 100 pounds. I usually stay in between 90-97. Mother says that it's just my fast metabolism breaking the food down to energy before it goes to my fat storage. But I would much rather hear the facts from stickpage forum members. The hell does mom know, anyway. c:
Hey a topic I can relate on!
120lbs, 6'0" here.
Bro, work out. And I don't mean lift incredibly heavy weights, and such like that. It's all about form and the will to keep at it.
Muscle > Fat in terms of weight.
Talking bout muscles and weight eh.
Im 100 pounds. I dont think working out isn't the only way to gain muscle. You should also eat a hellalot of proteins. Chicken and egg is the man.
You should focus on training to be the best you you can be. its all well to want to be super strong, etc etc. But if you don not have the genetics for it you are banging your head against a brick wall. if you want to bulk up, bulk up. Don't expect to be as strong as a guy that is naturally twice your size.