I'm tired of being skinny all my life; can you guys help me?

What’s your training history?

Meaning what type exercise or workouts have you done in the past to try to put on muscle? For how long?

Post your workout schedule and routine for us

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No matter how much weights I lift, I am just not able to put on any muscle or gain any weight.

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At least your issue is simple.
Food.

Gaining wait is all science and biology.
You must eat more calories than you burn.
You’re gaining wait in the wrong places because of the food you are eating. The cleaner you eat, the less fat you will gain. But you will. gain. fat. It’s part of bulking up and impossible to avoid.

Lifting weights and adequate protein will give you the results you want. Sounds like you’ll just have to eat your arse off.
Steroids are not the answer and have been proven to cause issues if you ever want to have children.

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When I do try to eat a lot, which I hate by the way

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Most people don’t like it and most people don’t enjoy the taste.
But EVERYONE loves the results.
We do it for the results.

So assuming your diet isn't crazy bad when you "try to eat alot", and you actually go to the gym and lift heavy (for you) weights, I'd get your T checked and see if you need a boost.

Conversely, assuming your biologics are all relatively in line, make sure you are eating the right things. Eating a lot doesn't get you big. Eating a lot of protein and good carbs does. At 150 lbs, I'd probably shoot for 165-175g protein a day. Protein is the most important macro to hit, make sure you are getting protein; that's how muscle is built. Chicken, eggs, beef, no more than 2 shakes/day. Fish if you want but...bleh...

Then carbs, you should prob aim for around 300g carb. Oatmeal and rice and sweet potatoes. Beer and sugar aint the carbs you want. You can have those, but make sure you get the protein and 300g of good carbs in first.
Then get maybe 70-100g fat, little more flexibility there. I hit my fats with avocados and peanut butter almost exclusively (plus whatever fat is in my proteins).

Don't get your calories all at once; don't make an egg white, protein scoop, 2 cup oatmeal with 3 TBSP peanut butter shake in the morning that has half your macros in it and pretend you're half way done. Try to split it up into 5 meals a day if you can (I eat 6). I've found for most people it's easiest to do your three breakfast/lunch/dinner meals with two shakes/snack type meals between. There's your meal plan. Saying you hate to eat a lot makes me think you don't eat nearly enough, even when you do try to eat a lot, and that's probably what is limiting you.

In the gym, just make sure you're pushing yourself and lifting heavy for you 3-5x/week. If you aren't doing cardio, add that in to help your appetite but don't overdo it while you're trying to gain weight. 20 minutes of moderately increased heart rate 3x a week.

Assuming your test is fine, you do that for a month and I guarantee you'll start growing. At 5'10" you do that for a year and your baseline will be in the 170's no problem.

I was like you, 145-150 most of my adult life at 5'11. You need to get on a strength training program, and stick to it. If you have trouble eating, make sure you supplement your daily calorie intake with protein/mass gainer shakes. That's what it took for me to finally push past some weight plateaus.

Now I'm 180-185, and I'm the best shape of my life. You're 5'10, you can definitely handle an extra 30lbs on your frame without looking "fat".

No to anabolics

Yes to 200g protein a day

Yes to a calorie surplus

Yes to a lbs of beef a day

Yes to a dozen eggs a day

For the mext 24 weeks, Follow the greyskull lp aesthetics template, eat in a calorie surplus meaning if you aren't gaining weight you have to eat more, eat 2ppg protein a day, track everything, sleep 8 hours a night


Do the above and I promise if you out effort into it, you will look like a different person in 6 months.

Man, you have no idea how much I feel your situation. My natural height and weight if I didn’t do anything is 5’10” at about 140lbs. My numbers and weight are shite right now because I had to stop lifting for 3 months for health reasons (been back lifting for about a month now), but January of 2020 I weight 170 and had roughly 11% body fat. That month I did 1RM and benched 340, squatted 405, and deadlifted 445. I looked great and felt great. Not writing this to brag, but to just tell you that it can be done.

I feel like that was at our getting pretty close to my natural limit. All I can say is it’s tempting to get on the juice because of how hard it is for someone with your body type to gain weight. I know it’s fricking hard. But, you really should never touch the PEDs until you’ve pushed your natural limits (if ever at all). PEDs aren’t going to make you magically gain muscle. You still have to eat and train right so you really wouldn’t see much of a benefit jumping into it until you know how to manage your diet anyways.

On diet when gaining, my rule of thumb is trying to hit 200g of protein and at least 2600 calories a day. Track everything religiously for at least 3 months. After that, you’ll learn how to eyeball things.

It’s going to be hard to eat what you need to eat. I don’t know what it looks like for you, but I drank eggs, ate a shitload of ground beef, and supplemented what I needed with protein.

It sounds like we have extremely similar body types. If you want to gain, you’re going have to eat and it’s going to suck until you adjust to it. It’s just a commitment that you’ll have to make just like I did when I was tired of being the small, skinny dude.

ETA: stop doing “bodybuilding” workouts. Like others have said, focus on strength and run Greyskull LP, 5/3/1 etc. More strength = more muscle (generally).