Weight gain health thread

[Placid Dingo]

Looking at the discussions in the Discordian recipes forum, a lot of people seem to really know their shit when it comes to health and fitness.

I'm 5"2 and weigh 50 kilo (110 pounds) this is actually the most I've ever weighed.

Share your putting on weight (muscle is prefferable to fat) itt.

Already I up dairy, protein, drink the protein drinks after a workout and do about 50 mins exercise (hockey or gym) once every two days.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

How old are you? That's gonna make a huge difference.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, if you're working out, you'll put on muscle if you're eating well. And by "well" I don't mean "vegetarian".

[Placid Dingo]

I'm 23.

I tried to reduce meat last year. This year I started getting serious about gaining weight; Hide yo cows! Hide yo pigs!

I just have batshit metabolism, but it's nice to know I seems to be doing the right stuff already.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm 23.

I tried to reduce meat last year. This year I started getting serious about gaining weight; Hide yo cows! Hide yo pigs!

I just have batshit metabolism, but it's nice to know I seems to be doing the right stuff already.

Yeah, you're on the right track. Basically you just need to increase your calorie intake, which you can do by adding snacks between meals. Cheese and baguette is a good snack for weight gain.

[rong]

i have the opposite problem, so, naturally i hate you.

fwiw - i've found gruelling labor and supplementing meals with cigarettes will keep me "overweight but at least i'm not obese" category.

one time i got down to 172 lbs.  i looked like death and felt like a stiff wind would knock me off my feet.

[Pæs]

I'm 23.

I tried to reduce meat last year. This year I started getting serious about gaining weight; Hide yo cows! Hide yo pigs!

I just have batshit metabolism, but it's nice to know I seems to be doing the right stuff already.

I'm 22. 5' 10". 55kg and trying to add weight.
Am pretty much doing the same as you are. Eating more in general. Dairy/proteins.

Metabolism just noms it all up and asks for more. Just ADD MORE FOOD until it works, seems to be the trick.

[Desirsar]

Have you checked with a doctor and done blood work to make sure you're absorbing what you're eating?

[Placid Dingo]

Have you checked with a doctor and done blood work to make sure you're absorbing what you're eating?

I have not. Can you exPlain what you mean there?

[rong]

maybe you have a tapeworm

[Placid Dingo]

Ah. No. I just don't put on weight quickly.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Looking at the discussions in the Discordian recipes forum, a lot of people seem to really know their shit when it comes to health and fitness.

I'm 5"2 and weigh 50 kilo (110 pounds) this is actually the most I've ever weighed.

Share your putting on weight (muscle is prefferable to fat) itt.

Already I up dairy, protein, drink the protein drinks after a workout and do about 50 mins exercise (hockey or gym) once every two days.

What kind of exercises are you doing at the gym? If you're going for mass, I wouldn't give much time to cardio except as a very brief (5-10 min) warm-up before lifting. Hockey should pretty well take care of all your needs there, anyways. When you're first bulking up, you really have to start with the basic strength exercises before moving on to the isolation type "glamor" movements. Squats, dead-lifts, bench presses, overhead presses, underhand pull-ups (or rows may be more beneficial at only 110lbs). Problem with all of these is that in most cases bad form can either make the exercise useless, or worse, very, very dangerous. You can mitigate that a bit by using dumb-bells instead of bar-bells, but you're going to get much more benefit out of actually having someone there who knows what they're doing and can make sure your form's on and spot you as you go, in either case. These exercises will generally just make you overall more "massive", and a lot stronger. Doing flies instead of bench presses or isolating your quads on a machine instead of doing squats is a good way to show results fairly quickly, but you'll run into bottlenecks much easier and really get "bigger" without getting any stronger (dangerous AND stupid...it's a lose, lose).
--OH and don't forget about the negatives when you're lifting. They're deadly and super-effective. If you're not currently doing them, do negatives on like 3 of your bench-press reps next time you're in the gym and the next morning you'll feel exactly what those things are doing (and by "feel" I mean...muahahaha!). I throw in two at the end of every set. Any more than that and I wouldn't be able to get through my regular sets.

Bulking diets are simple. Eat. Eat more. Then eat. Definitely want to spike your protein within 20 minutes of your workout, but I wouldn't go a single meal or snack without at least some protein. At your weight and age, aside from any obvious chugging vegetable oil or main-lining twinkie-filling type asshattery, you can pretty much just eat and eat and eat with very little downside. Just make sure to keep the protein coming and pay attention to your cravings. I get my best results when I make sure and ALWAYS have a bag of almonds within reach and listen to what the hell my body is wanting for the rest (usually avocados, a cigarette and the love of a good woman...and avocados).

[Faust]

I didn't start gaining weight until I hit 24. Thing is, if you're not unhealthy I wouldn't worry about it for another year or two.

[Placid Dingo]

NoLe; what are negatives?

Faust, thanks. I just want to increase my sexy.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

NoLe; what are negatives?

Faust, thanks. I just want to increase my sexy.

There's a technical word for this that I'm forgetting, but it's basically the "downstroke" of each exercise. Like when you're doing bench-presses, instead of just bringing the bar down to your chest quick, try to resist the weight coming down. I usually count back from 10 while bringing the bar down. You'll especially feel them on any arm exercises. They'll kill your overhead presses. If you do them right you should very much regret it the next morning (desireable)