Starting to look scrawny

[amaferanga]

Add 3 days a week of weight training.Start off working the whole body then after 3 months split each workout into seperate bodyparts.
Only do core exercises like Bench press for chest and bent over rows for back.
Aim to lift more each workout but do not sacrifice proper form of each movement.
Add more protein to your diet.

Do this for some months and you will bulk up and feel not only fit and healthy but strong also

Not at all what you want if your main sport is cycling though. Fine if you're just vain and want to look like a conventional Mens Health kinda guy....

 

[al78]

Basil b... i hate to say this BUT you are under weight, you really need to reacess your diet, i'm 5' 7" and my ideal weight is anywhere from 11-7 to 12 st....

I'm 6' 0" and a little under 10 stone, where does that put me?

I find putting weight on a struggle. The heaviest I ever got was 12 stone and that was doing heavy weight training 3x per week for around three years, a 4000+cal diet and minimal cardio. I physically couldn't eat any more food to get heavier than that.

Looking back, it is amusing what people used to say:

"You'll fill out in your teens."
"You'll fill out in your 20's."
"You'll fill out in your 30's."
Now in my 30's, it's "You'll fill out in middle age"

Probably about as true as the "you'll grow out of hayfever" claim.

 

[Basil.B]

I'm 48, can't be arsed to do weight training!
I will see what I'm like in a month or two, might go to The Doctor's then.
Getting faster on my bike, I shoot up the hills! So not too worried.

 

[Garz]

What is your height and weight?

This and BMI are not great indicators of how healthy a person is, there are a breed of people who are squat with big bone density like myself that always push the category to overweight when referred to using the BMI scale.

Even when I was lean last year my wife commented on how skinny I looked, very lean and fit into a 32 waist no problem. But being 165lbs and 5'6" the index again comes out 'overweight'.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

This and BMI are not great indicators of how healthy a person is, there are a breed of people who are squat with big bone density like myself that always push the category to overweight when referred to using the BMI scale.

Even when I was lean last year my wife commented on how skinny I looked, very lean and fit into a 32 waist no problem. But being 165lbs and 5'6" the index again comes out 'overweight'.

Way to go second guessing me! By the way I used to be 11 stone with a 30 " waist at 6'. I was going to say the OP it probably fine.

 

[david k]

I'm 6' 0" and a little under 10 stone, where does that put me?

I find putting weight on a struggle. The heaviest I ever got was 12 stone and that was doing heavy weight training 3x per week for around three years, a 4000+cal diet and minimal cardio. I physically couldn't eat any more food to get heavier than that.

Looking back, it is amusing what people used to say:

"You'll fill out in your teens."
"You'll fill out in your 20's."
"You'll fill out in your 30's."
Now in my 30's, it's "You'll fill out in middle age"

Probably about as true as the "you'll grow out of hayfever" claim.

i used to be like that, i had an overactive thyroid!