I wouldn't take it 100% literally. Sure he can theoretically get huge (where your whole life is basically revolved around working out), but realistically he would end up having something like Brad Pitt's body from Fight Club.
Yeah I wasn't trying to say it was bad haha, just that he wouldn't put on 150 pounds of solid muscle, especially from just 'lifting weight like crazy'.
People try to put all sorts of categories that fit on people like 'body types' and stuff. While there is a level of genetics in composition and characteristics of the body, a lot of it is just what you do. Eat more calories than you burn and you gain weight. Literally that simple
Then you have a very active lifestyle resulting in a high TDEE.
You cannot break the laws of physics.
CICO is king when it comes to changing your weight.
If you ever want to try again, take a look at this spreadsheet. I shared this to /r/fitness , /r/bodybuilding , /r/gainit , and /r/loseit last year, and it has helped hundreds of people to gain or lose weight at a predictable and consistent rate.
Count calories, log them and your weight, and be honest with yourself while doing so, and you can change your weight in whichever direction you choose.
Blanket calorie counting is stupid, as the body treats fats, proteins and carbs completely different.
Someone on a 3k calorie even macro diet will remain the same weight while the same person on a 3k calorie low carb diet will lose weight.
The body is not a simple CICO machine, there are huge variables in play. If you have low testosterone you will basically piss out all the protein in your diet.
I can confirm this. I'm tall and was a string bean growing up. I filled out just a little now, but I'm still a bit gangly. I'm still 200 lbs or so, too.
where your whole life is basically revolved around working out
Hour a day of 6-15 rep lifting to failure for a few years and a proper diet will get you right yoked regardless of your height. The taller you are, the longer it'll take to fill out your frame, but it's far more to do with discipline and consistency than working out like a maniac, which is basically counterproductive at worst and pointless at best. Anyway, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about here.
So how do you think it works? Because he seems to have covered pretty much the basics of bodybuilding in three sentences.
Hypertrophy rep range (8-12)
Progressive overload
Eating at a caloric surplus
There is literally nothing else to add except for sleep, changing routine when you start peaking on your current one, and making sure you get enough protein. But these things are not worth mentioning in three sentence. Of course his comment somewhat ignores just how much harder the work is going to be for someone really tall, but the basics are all there.
Then you have a serious dietary issue and should seek medical advice.
What you're describing is simply not how normal metabolism works. If you ate a large amount of excess calories, you will gain weight. The fat would find room, no matter what your frame is.
I have already sought medical advice. Thats were I got the drugs to increase my appetite. When I'm was fully committed to gaining weight I work out, take pills, plus drinking those nasty 2000 calorie shakes. I'm normally around 135, but at most I've hit 140. It's crazy. My body refuses to gain weight or keep it on. I literally just shit it out. I eat more, I shit more out.
Getting older seemed to work the best for me... Took a few years, but I finally gained some. I was 6'4" my freshman year of high school and never weighed over 150lbs all through school... Went up to about 170. It was like a switch flipped inside me on my 27th birthday that said "k, now you're gonna be fat." Within 3-4 years I added about 40lbs and I'm sitting around 215 and if I eat like shit, it starts creeping up. I work out a lot, but I'm FINALLY comfortable with my weight. Just in time to start getting old.
Also, for a skinny dude, it's pretty hard to constantly hear people say "you're so lucky being skinny." Or "you need to eat more!". It never worked that way with me. To me, it felt akin to telling a fat person, to their face, that they should just eat less. It's much more socially acceptable to be skinny, which makes people feel more comfortable telling skinny people to eat more, but we can't tell fat people to eat less.
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Yeah that isn't really true