I feel like I'm looking to move in the opposite direction form most people here.
I'm 5'9"/10" and currently weighing in at about 142 (after a meal). Two months ago I was mid 130s. Currently my goal is to be high 140s / low 150s, with most of the gains coming from muscle. I'm already pretty lean, but I've been starting to feel like I'm too skinny, and have been getting similar comments form others. While I haven't been making time to go to a gym, but I've been exercising at home doing pushup/sit up sets a few times throughout the day. I'd also like to get back to taking bjj classes regularly which are a great workout.
I haven't been to well-informed on what to do in order to gain muscle when you're skinny. I would assume that exercises that emphases endurance would be a bad idea. So long runs probably wouldn't work. But sprints would. Also weight training with heavy weights with a low number of reps. And a lot of protein in your diet.
BUT, I would see if you could hook up with a trainer at a gym to see what he/she says first. It's a weird predicament your in for my brain though. Best of luck.
Yeah, it seems like the process is more or less what you said. I don't do any runs, but bjj is a lot of cardio if I get heavily back into that.
The gains that I have made so far are mostly from diet. Eating a lot more protein, while still eating relatively clean overall. It's turned into a lot of salad with avocado and chick/tuna. I need to expand my food horizons. But when I work out at home I've been trying to focus on less endurance and more explosive movements, like doing clapping pushups instead of standard ones (although FAR fewer - those things are hard!).
I feel like I'm looking to move in the opposite direction form most people here.
I'm 5'9"/10" and currently weighing in at about 142 (after a meal). Two months ago I was mid 130s. Currently my goal is to be high 140s / low 150s, with most of the gains coming from muscle. I'm already pretty lean, but I've been starting to feel like I'm too skinny, and have been getting similar comments form others. While I haven't been making time to go to a gym, but I've been exercising at home doing pushup/sit up sets a few times throughout the day. I'd also like to get back to taking bjj classes regularly which are a great workout.
I know Jeff mentioned this on the podcast - The Wirecutter has some good info on TVs.
That site is great if you just want someone to say "Hey, just buy this one". Depending on how deep you want to dig with the into somewhere like the AVS Forums has a lifetime of discussion.
@big_jon: It is definitely great! My issue with shirts is that I'm too skinny for my height (looking to change this), so even slim fit shirts sometimes have too much fabric around the middle.
The place I ended up at took my measurements and made shirts from scratch, rather than tailor an existing shirt. If you find the right place it's a bit cheaper, even.
I have similar troubles finding slim fit dress shirts. I ended up finding a local tailor that does made-to-measure shirts at a decent price. Maybe you could find something similar for the future?
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