
Originally Posted by
Arcânn
Damn I envy that guy. At 16 I was eating the calorie equivalent of like 3 pizzas a day and wasn't able to get past 130 pounds at 5'11"
When I was deployed, I was friends with a guy that I worked out with sometimes. He started working out at the beginning of the deployment. He had the shittiest form I've ever seen, spent WAY too much time in the gym for his size (6' at 160 pounds), like 3+ hours on the days he went, and had the WORST diet. About 80% of his diet was hot dogs, cheeseburgers, hash brown patties, and apple sauce. The dude gained 16 pounds in his first 45 days there (according to 2 different scales) and if anything, lost body fat. And he was already very lean to begin with. No supplements, not even protein powder. He was actually repulsed by the thought of supplements. Throughout the rest of the year I think he only gained another 10 lbs. But that's still gaining ~25 lbs in one year while losing fat, on a diet that would make most normal people obese, while using shitty form the whole time, and not a grain of protein powder the entire time. THAT'S bodybuilding genetics.
We are not all created equal. Some people got it, some people don't. You need to work out for at least 1-2 years and see if you're one of those people that's just got it.
........assuming you're not a troll