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skinny?
When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 1:35PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
When I ran cross country I was 6'0 and 140 lbs. I cut back my mileage and started lifting weights. I am now 165 lbs and people STILL call me skinny! When I am considered not skinny? I don't think my frame can support much bigger muscles. I might be able to pack on an extra 5-10 lbs of muscle if I try really hard, but I'm almost at the end of the road.
Laupala
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 1:38PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Gaunt is beautiful.
?
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 1:46PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I'm sure if you tried hard enough you could pack on an extra 20-30 lbs of fat at which point you would no longer be considered skinny.
skinny?
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 2:11PM - in reply to ? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
? wrote:

I'm sure if you tried hard enough you could pack on an extra 20-30 lbs of fat at which point you would no longer be considered skinny.


I don't want to put on fat weight, only muscle. I still can't believe people say I'm SO skinny at 165 lbs. Anyone else find this weird?
mike.a
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 2:13PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It can be done. I'm 6'3" and when running track/xc I was always extremely skinny, hovering around 150lbs. After 3-4 years of consistent weight-lifting, consuming a lot of protein, and dabbling with creatine here and there, I'm 6'3" and 215lbs. Much happier with these dimensions.

When you're lifting, try to apply the same intensity and focus you had on the track. I've always worked out until I felt totally depleted. I also devote a lot of effort to eating well and eating often. This is just as important.

If you keep at it you can do it. Trust me I thought gaining muscle on my frame was impossible but I've proven myself wrong, fortunately.
Louden Swain
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 2:34PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
They probably mean it as a compliment. That or they are just jealous. 165 is pretty lean for 6', but you really have to ask yourself why you care so much about what others think about your physique.
skinny?
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 2:39PM - in reply to Louden Swain Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Louden Swain wrote:

They probably mean it as a compliment. That or they are just jealous. 165 is pretty lean for 6', but you really have to ask yourself why you care so much about what others think about your physique.


Why do I care what other people think? Because perception is reality, whether I chose to acknowledge that or not.
sadsd
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:27PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I'm 6'4" and 195 lbs and people call me skinny all the time!
Toasty McF*ckface
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:35PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It depends upon who is doing the considering. I may not consider you skinny, but I certainly consider you stupid.
Louden Swain
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:38PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
skinny? wrote:
Why do I care what other people think? Because perception is reality, whether I chose to acknowledge that or not.


Is this about impressing women? Usually they just want to weight less than you, so 165 isn't the worst case scenario (most women still qualify, but they will only let themselves go to 165 not 200, or whatever you are thinking would make you burly).
10 years out
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:46PM - in reply to Louden Swain Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
When I was running in college I was 6'0" and 130. I have continued recreational running the last 10 years, but have done a fair amount of lifting and swimming too. I have easily bulked up to around 135lbs now.
looooooooser
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:52PM - in reply to 10 years out Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
10 years out wrote:
I have easily bulked up to around 135lbs now.


Way to go, Arnold.
j0nathan
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 3:54PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Not until your belly sticks out farther than your weiner, hence the term Dickey-Doo.
oldoldrunner
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 4:18PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
skinny? wrote:

When I ran cross country I was 6'0 and 140 lbs. I cut back my mileage and started lifting weights. I am now 165 lbs and people STILL call me skinny! When I am considered not skinny? I don't think my frame can support much bigger muscles. I might be able to pack on an extra 5-10 lbs of muscle if I try really hard, but I'm almost at the end of the road.



Your only skinny if the person around you are thicker than you.

Faster forward this video to the 12:14 mark and listen to what the British announcer calls Steve Prefontaine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFty7To8oQk
Leopardly
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 4:20PM - in reply to j0nathan Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Your height to weight ratio is absolutely normal, people are just used to everyone being extremely obese in America. When someone calls you skinny just say
"Of course I'm skinny you idiot I run cross country and I'm supposed to be that way."
Leopardly
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 4:25PM - in reply to j0nathan Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Your height to weight ratio is absolutely normal, people are just used to everyone being extremely obese in America. When someone calls you skinny just say
"Of course I'm skinny you idiot I run cross country and I'm supposed to be that way."
trutf teller
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/27/2012 4:26PM - in reply to skinny? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
When a woman allows herself to glance your way rather than shield her eyes from the visual horror of staring at a ghost from Auschwitz?
Move Dog
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/28/2012 12:08AM - in reply to trutf teller Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
trutf teller wrote:

When a woman allows herself to glance your way rather than shield her eyes from the visual horror of staring at a ghost from Auschwitz?


THIS. Not turning heads anymore. Kind of miss the confidence that it gave me. Let's be honest, when you approach a woman, they eye you up immediately and determine whether or not you move on to part two which is the personality test via those opening lines.

The thin man now has to work as hard as the fat man to get between the sheets.
Reality Bath
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/28/2012 12:35AM - in reply to Move Dog Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The most popular male porn star among young women is 5'10" and 135 lbs. Of course he is a bit "larger" than average but not freakishly so. It's his deportment of confidence that makes the difference.
Move Dog
RE: When are you not considered skinny? 4/28/2012 12:54AM - in reply to Reality Bath Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Reality Bath wrote:

Of course he is a bit "larger" than average but not freakishly so. It's his deportment of confidence that makes the difference.


what? how would you know? yuck.
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