Fitness 2013

[Eddie Teach]

How tall is he that under 180 is considered unhealthy? 

[Syt]

How tall is he that under 180 is considered unhealthy? 

Probably depends on how much metal he has in his crushed limbs.

[MadImmortalMan]

Is Anger bitching about having to gain weight ?!??

Hey that can be hard. I've been lifting for a year but can't gain...probably because I just can't eat enough. Plus being on an elderly Ensure diet isn't good for weight gain. 

4000 calories a day is nuts. I just can't do that. Stuffing a couple more eggs in or another hamburger is sometimes like torture.

This is the hardest thing I've had to deal with, and it makes the process of losing the weight I did seem like easy pickings by comparison.

[Ed Anger]

Is Anger bitching about having to gain weight ?!??

Who's bitching?

[Ed Anger]

Also, I'm 6 feet.

[Eddie Teach]

According to everybody's favorite metric, BMI, 6 feet tall and 180 lbs rates 24.4, just barely under the "overweight" category. To classify as "underweight" you'd need to be around 135. 

[Ed Anger]

Bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'.

[crazy canuck]

Is Anger bitching about having to gain weight ?!??

Hey that can be hard. I've been lifting for a year but can't gain...probably because I just can't eat enough. Plus being on an elderly Ensure diet isn't good for weight gain. 

4000 calories a day is nuts. I just can't do that. Stuffing a couple more eggs in or another hamburger is sometimes like torture.

This is the hardest thing I've had to deal with, and it makes the process of losing the weight I did seem like easy pickings by comparison.

my oldest son is going through the same struggle.  He is having a hard time eating enough to gain - or even maintain weight.  He is getting a lot stronger but he has only gained about 10 - 15 pounds over the last few months.  On the bright side he is ripped but he could use about another 30 lbs.

[Eddie Teach]

Tell him to stop training so hard and the weight will come naturally. 

[mongers]

Tell him to stop training so hard and the weight will come naturally. 

QFsortofT.

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm down one more belt hole, but I'm still the same weight. Grrr. 

A whole year, I've been trying to gain some muscle but it seems like it just won't work. I lift until I'm sore. Mrs. MIM has to give me massages a couple times a week. I eat a lot of protein. She says I look stronger but I just don't see it. It's frustrating.

OTOH: The 40 pounds I lost last year have not come back at all. It's like my body simply wants to fade away.

I guess I'm what they call a hard gainer. Or an ectomorph. If I did get ripped, I'd look a lot more like Bruce Lee than Arnold.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

On the subject of weight gain for strength building, in Starting Strength Mark Rippetoe calls for drinking whole milk, and lots of it.  I have the opposite problem, so I have no first-hand experience.

I have been on the Starting Strength program for about two weeks now, and I have been seeing similar results as MIM: increasing lifts, changing body measurements, basically flat weight (2-3 lb fluctuations with no clear trend).  From what I have read, for me that is expected.  I'm still a novice and won't start dropping weight until my body ramps up more.  Plus, I need to clean up my diet.

My work (3x5) weights as of Monday:
Squat: 135 lbs
Press: 75 lbs
Bench: 105 lbs
Deadlift: 215 lbs
Power clean: not attempted (I start those next week)

Vitals as of Monday morning:
Weight: 297.8
BP: 144/88 (on meds)

[Ed Anger]

My ribs hurt.

[mongers]

My ribs hurt.

Similar here, after crashing a couple of weeks back, it still hurts when I sneeze or blow my nose.

[mongers]

Ended up doing a little under 500 miles cycling this month, a bit under 300 miles on the main bike before its/my prangette and 100 miles on two of the other bikes.