Hey,
To start off with, I'll just give a bit of general background information.
I'm a 21 year old male, living in Australia. For as long as I can remember, I've always been small. when I say small,I mean small. My mum is small, her brother is small, my sister is small..it seems to run on that side of the family.
I've always wanted to get bigger because most of my life (in school and out) people have always made fun of my weight or even just a remark about it, that can still be hurtful. Over the past year, on and off I've been trying to gain weight, several times I've stopped due to being sick, having wisdom teeth out, etc and basically losing motivation.
But for the past 6 weeks I've gotten back into it, stayed motivated even after being sick for 3 days, joined a local gym and started getting things in order.
So that's me. Now onto the workout side of things.
I'm current sitting at around 47kgs and 178cm talk, which debt take a genius to realise is small (underweight). People generally guess me at being 55-60kg and I lie saying it's around that area because I hate to let people know my true weight.
since starting I've gained 3-4kgs, and slowly getting bigger.
I was never a huge eater so that didn't help, but here's where I am now.
Calorie intake: 2750/day
Workout: Stronglifts 5x5 (week 2, day 2)
I have seen improvement in my arms, thighs and calves did 1 cycle of "allpros routine".
I like stronglifts because it is basic compound lifts and is constantly increasing the weight. I went from 10-15kg squats to (currently) 30kg. It surprised me what I was capable of doing, considering I originally choose a weight I knew I'd be able to do rather than seeing what I could do.
My first workout before stronglifts would have helped prepare me though.
here's my current weights:
Bench press: 25kg
Squat: 30kg
Row: 35kg
Deadlift: 45kg
Overhead Press: 20kg
Some of them don't match up to the stronglifts routine because unfortunately the gym has 2 Smith machines, no squat rack, set weight barbells (15kg-40kg) and no free weight barbells.
This makes it hard to utilize free weights for my exercises. I may have to buy more plates so I can do deadlifts at home.
anyway, you'll hear more from me soon regarding a few questions I have. I hope to be around here more often, if not to ask questions, but to motivate the other small guys out there that we can get big too.
Cheers, and sorry for the long introduction, but I will link to this so I don't have to repeat it all the time
Nathan
To start off with, I'll just give a bit of general background information.
I'm a 21 year old male, living in Australia. For as long as I can remember, I've always been small. when I say small,I mean small. My mum is small, her brother is small, my sister is small..it seems to run on that side of the family.
I've always wanted to get bigger because most of my life (in school and out) people have always made fun of my weight or even just a remark about it, that can still be hurtful. Over the past year, on and off I've been trying to gain weight, several times I've stopped due to being sick, having wisdom teeth out, etc and basically losing motivation.
But for the past 6 weeks I've gotten back into it, stayed motivated even after being sick for 3 days, joined a local gym and started getting things in order.
So that's me. Now onto the workout side of things.
I'm current sitting at around 47kgs and 178cm talk, which debt take a genius to realise is small (underweight). People generally guess me at being 55-60kg and I lie saying it's around that area because I hate to let people know my true weight.
since starting I've gained 3-4kgs, and slowly getting bigger.
I was never a huge eater so that didn't help, but here's where I am now.
Calorie intake: 2750/day
Workout: Stronglifts 5x5 (week 2, day 2)
I have seen improvement in my arms, thighs and calves did 1 cycle of "allpros routine".
I like stronglifts because it is basic compound lifts and is constantly increasing the weight. I went from 10-15kg squats to (currently) 30kg. It surprised me what I was capable of doing, considering I originally choose a weight I knew I'd be able to do rather than seeing what I could do.
My first workout before stronglifts would have helped prepare me though.
here's my current weights:
Bench press: 25kg
Squat: 30kg
Row: 35kg
Deadlift: 45kg
Overhead Press: 20kg
Some of them don't match up to the stronglifts routine because unfortunately the gym has 2 Smith machines, no squat rack, set weight barbells (15kg-40kg) and no free weight barbells.
This makes it hard to utilize free weights for my exercises. I may have to buy more plates so I can do deadlifts at home.
anyway, you'll hear more from me soon regarding a few questions I have. I hope to be around here more often, if not to ask questions, but to motivate the other small guys out there that we can get big too.
Cheers, and sorry for the long introduction, but I will link to this so I don't have to repeat it all the time
Nathan