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6ft 2 and 70kg is that healthy for a 17 year old?

How many pushups and sit-ups a day would i need to do to become more muscular?

I eat a mixture of these each week:
Rice with corn beef stew
jollof rice
weatabix
toast with butter
fufu(starch) with soup+meat
Chips and fried chicken
The less fleshy version of chicken
Fried Plantain
Some fried/boiled eggs sometimes
Jamie dodgers,Doritos and hot chocolate
water
orange juice

do i need to change my diet?
I hate fish,i hardly eat fruit and veg.

I tend to take medium portions of rice sometimes i struggle to finish it.
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Reply 1
Could someone please help me? I don't have a potbelly or much of one if that helps....
No you are incredibly skinny, I'm 4 inches shorter and 9 kilos heavier, yet I am not particular muscular nor fat.

Your routine needs to in a gym with a barbell, routines such as Ice Cream Fitness 5x5, Candito linear programme and Stronglifts 5x5 are ideal for you if you want to gain muscle.

Food wise, you should be eating over 3000 calories at your height in order to gain weight, eating a gram per kg of body weight to a gram and a half per kg. Calculators like My fitness pal are ideal for this

Fruit and veg are good for you, eat it
I'm 6 inches shorter and 37kg heavier, so yeah, eat something...
How far, brother! I know what you Nigerians are like for not eating vegetables, but trust us when we tell you that you NEED to. Lifting heavy barbells will wear you down if your diet is crap.

Eat less junk food, double your portions of eba, more meat in your egusi!

Oh yeah, read this and this, then go join a gym.
Reply 5
Original post by Scoobiedoobiedo
I'm 6 inches shorter and 37kg heavier, so yeah, eat something...


u beast
Reply 6
im from ghana...
Original post by scrawlx101
im from ghana...


It doesn't make you a healthy weight though

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Original post by scrawlx101
im from ghana...


Woo! When I saw rice and corned beef stew I knew lol

My family says that I don't need to lift to gain muscle but that is all you hear on the internet and TSR :redface:

I would advise you to follow 5x5 strong lifts

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Man's 5ft 8 and 58kg. Don't mess

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Original post by Life is a waste
Man's 5ft 8 and 58kg. Don't mess

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I am 5'8 and 53kg don't mess with me bro

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If your 5'8 and anything less than 65kg you're borderline emaciated
Original post by Angry cucumber
If your 5'8 and anything less than 65kg you're borderline emaciated


I know
My parents just don't want me to lift though:angry:

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Reply 13
I'm 9 inches shorter and 3kg heavier and I still only look like I might lift if I wear a slightly too small T shirt.


On the diet, what you eat could actually be pretty conducive to gaining weight so your portion size must be ****. If your parents will provide the food then it's much easier to eat more than to eat different. It might feel like you are force feeding yourself at first but you appetite adapts and if you start lifting that will help with the appetite too.

From a health point of view it isn't good. For starter switch your snacks for something healthier Get a bag of mixed frozen veg and have a serving with dinner. Encourage whoever does the cooking to considering baking or boiling instead of frying all the time, or offer to do the cooking yourself then you get to decide.
I'm 22 and 6"4 and 70kg don't sweat we're skinny lol
Original post by Black Cat
I'm 22 and 6"4 and 70kg don't sweat we're skinny lol


To say you need to gain some weight would be an understatement
Original post by Angry cucumber
To say you need to gain some weight would be an understatement


Student life + super metabolism impossbru
Original post by Black Cat
Student life + super metabolism impossbru


If I can cram 4000 calories a day down my neck when I've needed to gain weight, so can you

Unless you're a genetic freak (>99.9% population) your metabolism is well within normal bounds and you don't eat as much as you think you do
you spelt weetabix wrong though
6ft 2 and 70kg is perfectly healthy. Just cos you're not muscular doesn't mean you're not healthy!

Last year I was 6ft 1 64kg and perfectly healthy, 0 muscle and a bit of flubber on the belly and back


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