I'm 26, I was born with a very small skeletal frame (my wrists are less 6 inches around). Most of my life I weighed 110 lbs at 5'7. I've been hitting the gym HARD for 3 years, 5 days a week. Calorie surplus, enough protein, everything. Now, most of my newbie gains are gone. I've gained like 70 lbs and I still don't look like I lift. My biceps are still under 14 inches. Most people that I've met at the gym get to my size in 6 months. It's humilliating.
My background is in Biology and I remember reading a study in college where they got like 100 new lifters and put them on a 3 month training program while monitoring their nutrition. Some lifters gained 5 lbs, some gained 30. My point being that genetics vary wildly and unfortunately I was just dealt a bad hand. I just happen to be on the far low end of responders.
I don't want to be small forever. Life is unfair but that doesn't mean we have to like it. Should I start taking steroids ? Should I get silicone implants ? Inject synthol ? I'd like to know what you people think.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 14h ago Stickied
Alright dude you already asked this under a different username, you're just being an askhole at this point and you've been flaired accordingly
You are also required to try to answer your own question in AskTRP somewhere in the post
SpecAl123 Can't think for myself 14h ago
This is my first post in here...
Vermillion-Rx Admin 14h ago Stickied
It is not.
Edit: you absolutely did, admin doesn't owe you an explanation. But beyond that here are your posts:
mattyanon Admin 2h ago
Sure, but you've still put on 70 lb of muscle - that's more than 99% of other men in the world.
I think you're focusing on the negatives. It's always tempting to blame bad genetics, but everyone has pros and cons and life isn't fair - all we can do is crash on with what we've got.
First-light 8h ago
Try to find what you are good at physically. We all have weaknesses that it is good to work but in the end even if we do not go with our strengths, we miss out. Even if you did get massive muscles on a naturally small frame, your organs would just be overloaded all the time. Putting crap into your body like implants won't make it better and further overloading your organs with the effects of AAS to just attain marginally better results will further stress it. AAS are about improved margins they can't change fundamentals and they come at a cost -financial, health and constant stress tinkering variables that would just naturally be OK if you were not messing with yourself.
Find a sport that suits you and strength train for it. Then you will have a great body that looks and feels right. Lifting to get big is not for you. Your body is telling you that. Be your best self not someone else's idea of best. Get to like yourself.