Get fat fast!

Angilion · 5 Jun 2008 at 06:01

Strife212 said:
I am actually underwieght and can't seem to put any on :/

Weight training.

I once put on over two stone in a matter of weeks, when I was underweight. I wasn't even organised and dedicated - I just got a bench and some weights and used them on an unscheduled basis. Having a shower? Do a few minutes of various barbell exercises first - you can get sweaty, as you're having a shower anyway. Making a cup of tea? Do some dumbell exercises while the kettle boils. Downloading a fairly large file? More dumbell exercises while it's coming down. Or while you're watching TV. You don't need to move much with a dumbell. I'd also do maybe 15 minutes a day, lifting until I couldn't lift it any more (which isn't really a good idea with bench pressing on your own). As another plus, that would get me high. Off my head, laughing at the ceiling. Your brain makes excellent drugs for itself.

Two months of that and I couldn't get into my shirts. The arms on my T-shirts cut into my much larger biceps and the collars on proper shirts strangled me. I had to buy extra weights twice - weights I could just about bench when I started felt like an empty bar after a while.

Your food bill will go up, though, because you eat a lot more. Muscle is resource-intensive.

Angilion · 5 Jun 2008 at 06:14

mp3kla said:
BMI doesn't work for everyone. My dad for example is a keen road cyclist, takes part in large rides in italy / france - he's classed as 'overweight' yet the majority is muscle mass.
[..]

One of my coworkers is a competing road cyclist and I was amazed when he told me how much he weighs. It was a couple of stone over what I thought. His regular physical evaluation doesn't even include BMI, for the reason you refer to. He's past 60 and his test results rate as a fit, athletic man around 30 years old, which says a lot about how fit serious cyclists are.

snowdog · 5 Jun 2008 at 12:36

seek said:
EET MOAR

And less exercise.

(In other news... Try the sports forum for more serious answers...)

Akira said:
Salt is the secret. Eat as much salt as you can.

That I do too.

Loads of fat food with extra salt on everything, I can't even fatten up never mind muscle up :mad:

, I should weigh at least 5 kgs more for my height.
Even on the tiny bit of healthy stuff I eat like tomatoes, paprika, cucumber, radish, eggs, Lettuce ( Lactuca?), etc, I just throw on a huge lump of salt...

Aside that it's at least 2 Macdonalds/Burgerking/ KFC meals with extra salt every day, always mayo with chips as all dutch eat it, loads of local fast food like frikandels, Krokets, etc... ofcourse with mayo and ketchup. A lot of microwave rubbish too.

Fat just gets burned in my body instead of stored :mad:

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Dr.EM · 5 Jun 2008 at 12:47

I guess with the cyclists the weight is less visably obvious because it's carried as muscle in the legs. Muscle around the torso or a fat belly usually look more obvious!

ConTRo13R · 5 Jun 2008 at 13:24

all well and good eating all that crap, n those kinda salt levels are dangerous! thats just destroying your body, highering colestrol and being prone to heart disease!

digestive biscuits should do the trick, packet or 2 of them a day, healthy and about 2500kcals in two packs hehe

Morba · 5 Jun 2008 at 13:34

Angilion said:
Weight training.

I once put on over two stone in a matter of weeks, when I was underweight. I wasn't even organised and dedicated - I just got a bench and some weights and used them on an unscheduled basis. Having a shower? Do a few minutes of various barbell exercises first - you can get sweaty, as you're having a shower anyway. Making a cup of tea? Do some dumbell exercises while the kettle boils. Downloading a fairly large file? More dumbell exercises while it's coming down. Or while you're watching TV. You don't need to move much with a dumbell. I'd also do maybe 15 minutes a day, lifting until I couldn't lift it any more (which isn't really a good idea with bench pressing on your own). As another plus, that would get me high. Off my head, laughing at the ceiling. Your brain makes excellent drugs for itself.

Two months of that and I couldn't get into my shirts. The arms on my T-shirts cut into my much larger biceps and the collars on proper shirts strangled me. I had to buy extra weights twice - weights I could just about bench when I started felt like an empty bar after a while.

Your food bill will go up, though, because you eat a lot more. Muscle is resource-intensive.

ROFL!

Stephen7372 · 5 Jun 2008 at 13:34

Go for Elvis Presley diet

DarkShadow · 5 Jun 2008 at 13:41

Angilion said:
Weight training.

I once put on over two stone in a matter of weeks, when I was underweight. I wasn't even organised and dedicated - I just got a bench and some weights and used them on an unscheduled basis. Having a shower? Do a few minutes of various barbell exercises first - you can get sweaty, as you're having a shower anyway. Making a cup of tea? Do some dumbell exercises while the kettle boils. Downloading a fairly large file? More dumbell exercises while it's coming down. Or while you're watching TV. You don't need to move much with a dumbell. I'd also do maybe 15 minutes a day, lifting until I couldn't lift it any more (which isn't really a good idea with bench pressing on your own). As another plus, that would get me high. Off my head, laughing at the ceiling. Your brain makes excellent drugs for itself.

Two months of that and I couldn't get into my shirts. The arms on my T-shirts cut into my much larger biceps and the collars on proper shirts strangled me. I had to buy extra weights twice - weights I could just about bench when I started felt like an empty bar after a while.

Your food bill will go up, though, because you eat a lot more. Muscle is resource-intensive.

Hahahahahahaha, this post wins!

khimbar · 5 Jun 2008 at 13:42

Angilion said:
Weight training.

I once put on over two stone in a matter of weeks, when I was underweight. I wasn't even organised and dedicated - I just got a bench and some weights and used them on an unscheduled basis. Having a shower? Do a few minutes of various barbell exercises first - you can get sweaty, as you're having a shower anyway. Making a cup of tea? Do some dumbell exercises while the kettle boils. Downloading a fairly large file? More dumbell exercises while it's coming down. Or while you're watching TV. You don't need to move much with a dumbell. I'd also do maybe 15 minutes a day, lifting until I couldn't lift it any more (which isn't really a good idea with bench pressing on your own). As another plus, that would get me high. Off my head, laughing at the ceiling. Your brain makes excellent drugs for itself.

Two months of that and I couldn't get into my shirts. The arms on my T-shirts cut into my much larger biceps and the collars on proper shirts strangled me. I had to buy extra weights twice - weights I could just about bench when I started felt like an empty bar after a while.

Your food bill will go up, though, because you eat a lot more. Muscle is resource-intensive.

Is this for real?

If this worked for you, then great but I can't but think how much greater the gains would have been with an organised structured routine?

Angilion · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:00

khimbar said:
Is this for real?

If this worked for you, then great but I can't but think how much greater the gains would have been with an organised structured routine?

I was an extreme case, because I was very underweight (eating disorder), but an underweight person who probably does no exercise and eats haphazardly (and probably much less than they think) can gain weight quickly if they change their lifestyle. An organised, structured routine, with attention to diet and sleep as well, is going to work much better if you're starting from a more normal weight or are already in good shape.

heeeed · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:02

I would suggest you do exactly what Angilion says, as he clearly put on 2 stone of fat in a matter of weeks. Hate to break it to you Angilion, but you absolutely did not put on 2 stone of muscle in a "a matter of weeks", although I agree that gaining 2 stone of fat would make your shirts fit poorly and your arms look bigger

ConTRo13R · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:03

ahhh this has turned into a gym thread full of testosterone fuel muscle fanatics rather than an unhealty gimmie advice cuz i want to get fat thread!

Angilion · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:08

heeeed said:
I would suggest you do exactly what Angilion says, as he clearly put on 2 stone of fat in a matter of weeks. Hate to break it to you Angilion, but you absolutely did not put on 2 stone of muscle in a "a matter of weeks", although I agree that gaining 2 stone of fat would make your shirts fit poorly and your arms look bigger

I wasn't timing it and I'm not talking about a couple of weeks. Time slides by, so it could have been a dozen weeks. It wasn't organised, it just flowed from better health in all respects. So I wasn't keeping track of dates, times, etc. And I was very underweight to begin with.

zain · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:10

Lots of junk food, chocolate, high carb foods ie pasta and potatos then finish if off with a large glass of protien milkshake.

This could kill you and would serve no use in helping you be or look healthier and could take a long time to happen depending on your metabolism/life style.

The Sports Arena really does provide a great guide to get bigger without being massively muscley and shows you how to do it in a healthy way - check the thread by GordyR.

wordy · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:19

Angilion said:
Weight training.

I once put on over two stone in a matter of weeks, when I was underweight. I wasn't even organised and dedicated - I just got a bench and some weights and used them on an unscheduled basis. Having a shower? Do a few minutes of various barbell exercises first - you can get sweaty, as you're having a shower anyway. Making a cup of tea? Do some dumbell exercises while the kettle boils. Downloading a fairly large file? More dumbell exercises while it's coming down. Or while you're watching TV. You don't need to move much with a dumbell. I'd also do maybe 15 minutes a day, lifting until I couldn't lift it any more (which isn't really a good idea with bench pressing on your own). As another plus, that would get me high. Off my head, laughing at the ceiling. Your brain makes excellent drugs for itself.

Two months of that and I couldn't get into my shirts. The arms on my T-shirts cut into my much larger biceps and the collars on proper shirts strangled me. I had to buy extra weights twice - weights I could just about bench when I started felt like an empty bar after a while.

Your food bill will go up, though, because you eat a lot more. Muscle is resource-intensive.

As this is the intrernet and we have no way of verifying whether this is true or not I'm gonig to believe every word of it.

Anglion, when it comes to training methods Mike Menzter's got nothing on you

Nitefly · 5 Jun 2008 at 14:27

Grrrr, fat skeleton! *flexes*

Angilion · 5 Jun 2008 at 22:38

wordy said:
As this is the intrernet and we have no way of verifying whether this is true or not I'm gonig to believe every word of it.

Anglion, when it comes to training methods Mike Menzter's got nothing on you

From the look of the pictures of him I've just looked at, I think his approach is a bit more effective

My lack of method worked for me, a very underweight person who wanted an approach that didn't require organisation, discipline or dedication. Something to get me up to a more healthy weight. There's no way it would work for someone who wanted a figure anything even remotely like Mike Menzter's.

But it's probably useful to the OP, who is underweight and wants to gain some weight, and it would leave them feeling much better than they would feel after stuffing suet and biscuits down their neck every day. Maybe after a while they'd want to start doing it seriously, with careful attention to diet and a calculated routine of eating, training and sleeping, but they didn't post saying that they wanted to be a bodybuilder. No doubt they could gain weight more efficiently with such a routine, but it would involve a much bigger change in their habits, and thus be more likely to fail. A slapdash approach is easier to do and would get the job done.