Thread: Skinny guy's journal

Background and Goals

First off, I'm 6'4" and currently weigh 172. I've been consistently working out hard for a month and a half and actually got my weight up about 5 pounds. I generally only work on fairly specific areas of my body, and I do it every day. Which I now learned is not the right thing to do. For example, a typical workout would be about 5-7 sets of bench or similar peck machine, 5 sets of abs on a workout ball, 3-4 sets on leg lifts that work the abs, then about 3 sets an arm, lifting free weight dumbells. And then occasionally pushups before I go to bed. Workout takes a little less than 30 minutes. And for cardio I play basketball for a full hour or two about 2-3 times per week.

I haven't been eating more than 2-3 meals a day either. And usually I endulge in larger meals. Like a large mexican burrito or spaghetti for dinner. Which I also learned is not the right way. I always am really self conscious about stomach weight, which is why I didn't eat much, because everything I eat goes to my stomach because of my metabolism and skinniness.

Lastly, for the past 2-3 weeks I've been consistenly taking creatine, usually 5grams when I wake up. And then 5g before I work out, and sometimes another 5 after I workout. Always on an empty stomach.

Well there's a little background, I'm going to keep up the creatine, but change my workout and diet habits. Probably concentrate on specific body parts one day and then alternate. And still work out every day but different sections of my body. I've also bought some weight gainer with 900 calories and 68g of protein (with milk) that I'll drink once a day, then eat about 5 meals a day, and try to stick to eggs, chicken, yogurt, beef, my shakes, peanut butter (with something like celery) and then veggies and fruit to balance the diet out a little bit. Does this sound reasonable?

My goal is to hit 185, and basically become more ripped, which is the whole point of this, because I'm not ridiculous skinny, I just want more obvious muscle. Which this last month has given me but it seems like it's kind of at a plateau. So we'll see how this goes. Any advice is appreciated!

Day 1 - April 10th, 2007

Shake consists of 2 glasses of milk and XXX protein weight gainer. Drinking about 7-8 glasses of water a day.

Food
Meal 1- 3 eggs: 225 calories 20g protein

Meal 2- Shake: 900 calories 68g protein

Meal 3 - Turkey Sand.: 300 calories 15g protein
Banana: 110 calories 1g protein

Meal 4 - 1 can Tuna: 250 calories 33g protein
Orange: 88 calories 2g protein

Meal 5 - 1 cup yogurt: 200 calories 12g protein
3 celery w/ PB:716 calories 30g protein



Total Calories: 2789
Protein: 181g


Workout
Stuck to routine, workout about 30 minutes.