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by my5thaccount 3756 days ago
It is possible to get built. I was a skinny kid, picked on. Got tired of it. Started working out. Upped my protein intake. Went to the YMCA 3 days a week. The dudes in there were humongous and looked at me and smilled, this scrawny kid.

The first week I was there, one looked me and said, "It's hard, okay. Don't give up. Commit to 4 months of work and you will notice a difference. You will get stronger. You will bulk up. Don't give up. It takes time."

So I did. 4 months was nothing. I got a lot stronger. I put on mass. It worked!

This girl I had a crush on, she looked at me one day, looked at my new biceps and said, "Wow, you aren't so skinny anymore."

Within a couple years, I was curling 75 lbs on the preacher bench. Before I started, I couldn't bench press 50. If you want to change your life: Exercise. It takes time and energy and commitment, but it really does work and you will feel powerful and in control of your body like you never thought possible. People will look at you differently -- with admiration, with envy, with fear, with lust. Your life will change.

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I love this, thank you for your story, I'm on a similar journey to transform from skinny to...monster.
This is a fantastic book. Buy it if you haven't already. Fantastic book. Really, one of the best books written in any field. Written by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Highly recommended.

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I'm excited for you. You're embarking on a great journey, you don't even know! Or maybe you do. :)

Dont underestimate the diet. You can waste a lot of Gym Time & Effort by having a shit diet. That time and effort lifting things will be 1/2 as valueable if you dont eat properly.

You dont have to go Dwayne Johnson on it, but eat a little cleaner, get a lot more protein, dont be worried to put on a little pudge (if you're a skinny kid). You can quickly lose the fat, but the muscles are impossible to gain without the food.

i will add that if you aren't tracking calories, the only person you're fooling is yourself. quantify, quantify, quantify.

it's biology, which is a science, not a religion!