Question about working out

MrEiffel · 2015-08-18T07:38:51+00:00

Get a Job => Get a Gym => Just Fucking Do It.

dandar4600 · 2015-08-18T11:48:44+00:00

Go to /r/bodyweightfitness and start their program. Get a pull up bar ($20 at Walmart.) Figure out your TDEE and eat at 300-500 surplus. When you get a job, find a gym with free weights and go there.

trpftw · 2015-08-18T05:52:17+00:00

Isn't there a school gym?

5'11" not bad. Just eat a ton of food if you do work out. Otherwise don't bother.

You're still so very young. You've got nothing to worry about. You're in a better SMV position than all the kids in high school who are fat, overweight, short, etc. Being skinny is almost always preferable. It sucks a lot more to be fat in high school.

Take everything slowly and don't rush anything. Learn from TRP for now, if you can't find a gym or sports to do. Many young kids I know in high school did Baseball (arms), Basketball (shoulder muscle), Football (pretty much gotta go to gym), Tennis (leg, shoulder, forearm), or Soccer (legs), these can really help you. Pretty much all the best guys in the school did a sport.

The coolest kid I knew from high school was captain of the football team, and he was in the chess club. Needless to say with his blond hair and muscular shape, he always had a girlfriend.

snakw12 · 2015-08-18T11:53:51+00:00

If your high school has a football team, there's a 99% chance they have a gym. Find out if you can use their gym during the season (1st semester).

Seems to me you'll wait at least 6+ months to get a license. If that's the case, get a job, save up and buy a bike. Bring the bike with you to school when your parents drop you off and after school go bike your way to the gym.

theredspill · 2015-08-18T13:23:41+00:00

/r/bodyweightfitness I got my start there, still use bodyweight when travelling or too busy to make it to the gym

trp_hamlet · 2015-08-18T05:53:43+00:00

Get a part time job anywhere and pay for your own membership. If your high school has a gym then use that.

You'll also need to buy extra food for yourself. Bike to work if you have to...you could work once a week and that would be sufficient

Questionablechoice · 2015-08-18T07:08:17+00:00

The vast majority of the work is in the kitchen not the gym. The gym is the reaction, the kitchen is the catalyst and the body is the result. You need the gym but the catalyst sets it in motion faster and more efficiently.

If your skinny and 5'11" your likely like I was eating when I'm hungry not eating to gain. Also your likely eating whatever shit is put in front of you and not making unpopular healthy choices.

How many meals do you eat?

I'm willing to bet its 2/3 and maybe some chips, candy or soda occasionally.

I'm 5'11" too I need to to eat roughly 3000 calories to gain weight at this point. I eat 6 meals a day.

I'm eating around 30 dollars (CDN) in food a day. I cook it all myself I almost never eat anything I don't make from whole foods.

To give you an idea of what this is I ate this today (2775 Kcal):

4 cups of cottage cheese, 8 Tablespoons of Salsa, 16 Prawns, 1 cup of corn, 3 cups of pasta, 1 bell pepper, 1 1/2 cups of butter, 2 whole garlic, 2 cups of basil, 2 1/2 cups of spinach, 2 cups of grapes, 3 eggs, 4 slices of toast, 3 Green onions, 1/2 a cup of granola with raisins, 5 quarts of water

And salt, pepper, various spices

I eat every 2 to 3 hours around the clock to achieve this. I'm going to eat more later too.

SeekingTheWay · 2015-08-18T14:39:41+00:00

excercise with your bodyweight at home, get a bar and some free weights that won't set you back more than 100$ altogether. ask your mother to cook you meat-rich diners with fresh veggies (she's gonna be happy to do that) and good carbs (rice, some potatoes but not fries).

throwaway-aa2 · 2015-08-18T17:19:43+00:00

Figure it out dude. Seriously this is your LIFE that we're talking about. Be resourceful! Think about it like this: are you willing to bet your life on it (seriously think hard about this) that if I switched my mind with yours, that I couldn't find something out there?

Get a job dude. No ifs, ands, or buts. You are in a position to change your life... no fucking around with this. If I were you, I'd get a job, get a car, OR depending how the situation is, PLEAD and beg to your parents and do anything you need to do, to get a rack, a bench and a barbell with weights (edit: sorry said dumbbell first... a barbell is better and much cheaper) that you can set up in your place. Again, ask yourself: if I switched minds with you, you willing to bet your life that I couldn't convince my parents to spend money on a good bench setup? Say it's for sports and you want to be more outgoing... promise that if they do it that you can guarantee a certain grade average... you could even slyly threaten them (not violence) but basically just say you're a good kid and that them giving this to you, you'll be a good kid but if not then you're going to spend your time out partying with your friends and you'll be around people that drink..... I don't know the correct phrasing but just threaten them in sort of a "If I'm not working out, I"m going to be putting myself in precarious situations" and really just sell the fuck out of it. You can look on craigslist and usually find someone who is selling their equipment on the cheap.

Again, do your due dilligence. You should be practicing being outgoing in high school... you think there is ZERO people who are working out in your high school? Make friends! You see a dude with muscles, start hyping him up! "Dude your huge... what's your program, I want to start working out and you look like you know your shit, can I get some advice" and flatter them and from there you can most likely make friends! Some of those people might have their own home gym and you make friends and make it seem like you two are going to motivate each other, blah blah.

The point is this. I find it hard to believe that if you put me in your shoes, that I don't figure out SOMETHING. You COULD do bodyweight exercises but I extremely recommend against it. You must lift at all costs. Pound the pavement dude. Think about taking to your parents.. make it life or death, threaten them if you need to. Get a job, save money. Start talking to strangers in high school, seriously. All you have to do is flatter them and they'll be cool. Make friends and try to get them to let you work out with them. Try to find out similar interests and become interested in them yourself that way they find you interesting and...

Anyway just be enterprising dude. None of this "I can't do it" bullshit. grow up, grow a pair, do it. no excuses. you're a man right? well your job is to make it happen despite anything else.

RedPillJax · 2015-08-18T10:58:38+00:00

Man, I went from 6'4 160 skeletor to 6'4 220 fitbro - you don't have any excuses.

Eat like a fucking hog. Eat everything in sight. Couple that with /r/bodyweightfitness, and you have yourself your first dirty bulk. You can afford to slap on a little fat along with muscle mass right now.

Best of luck! Have fun with it - start good fitness habits now, and you'll be Adonis by the time you're in your twenties.

Title	Question about working out
Author	trpthrowaway169
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Comments	18
Date	August 18, 2015 5:48 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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