Losing weight vs Gaining weight

[brock_solid]

Most people think of exercise/fitness as trying to lose weight or getting rid of extra flab around mid section and rarely ever catagorised from another perspective.

Most if not all diets are aimed at middle aged overweight men. It's not necessarily the highest majority of physical performance it's just most noticable.

Imagine a 32 year old mildly overweight 5"11 weighing 95kgs with a large belly whos relatively un-fit. Then imagine a 16 year old skinny teenager 5"11 weighing 53kgs.

Old man wants to lose 10 - 15kgs

Skinny teenager wants to add 25 - 30kgs

Which do you think would be harder?

Bare in mind that this would be a relative example, an example involving somebody that is far more overweight wouldn't compare directly to somebody trying to put on alot of weight as it simply wouldn't coninside.

[deegee]

What I find hard to underatand is that at 32 you are an "old man"

ah well.

I imagine each case would reall ydepend on the individual though I believe it is always easdier and quicker to loose fat than build quality muscle.

[sponge]

What I find hard to underatand is that at 32 you are an "old man"

translation: deegee is 32 :grin:

easier to lose 10-15kg than gain that much. if you want to add 25-30kg, naturally, not only is that very difficult but expect to gain fat.

[Growth]

translation: deegee is 32 :grin:

:pfft: LOL :pfft:

I think it would be harder to put on that many kilos than to drop 10-15. The 25-30 kilos wont be all muscle as well.

[brock_solid]

Yeah i've always thought it's harder to put on weight than drop it, yet for some reason it's always fat people that beg to differ on that matter. Most are just lazy anyway, they complain about being fat yet eat bars of chocalate and cakes.

And yes 32 is old man, pretty much 30 upwards :grin:

[jono]

its a lot easier to drop weight than to add.

[Varven]

loosing weight is shite easy.. relatively easy to perform some cardio.. follow basic concept of calorie deficit.. maybe gain a wee bit of muscle to help boost metabolism.

Gaining clean weight is a tremendous task for most.

32 is not old.. wait till I hit 30 - 40. Most of my 20s will be spent gearing into my peak physical form which will be well maintained in my 30 s and 40s.

Yes teenage girls will still oggle at me when im on the beach and im 35. dont burst my bubble . goes back to cottage cheese.

[brock_solid]

I thought peak physical condition was during your teens when you have the raging hormones :pfft:

I've put on 14kgs in one month and 23 days, beat that :grin: :grin:

That's because i eat like a horse now, i eat a meal every 2 hours and if i'm not full from that i stuff down 4 bits of toast or apples or something until i'm bloated, i've just had my 10pm meal, eating my 12pm meal now then waiting until 2pm to have my before bedtime meal then waking up at 8am to have my next :grin:

[Brock]

I eat like a horse as well. Don't want to eat all the food otherwise I will probably will get kicked out lol.

I eat till you can hardly see my 6-pack and my stomak is not nice and flat anymore after piging out.

Ahh .. being young is good isnt it? :grin:

Plus I piss like 5 times from 10 pm to 12 pm.

Thats from all the apples and bananas I eat. So I piss outside sometimes so I dont wake anyone up with toilet flushing.

[tallulahangie]

32 is not old! (Things taste better aged :grin: )

I would rather date an older guy than a young namby pamby youngster...

[THEBERG]

30 aint old look at BIG RON he's 41 this year and hes still adding muscle and looking good. In terms of some sports it is better to be young but a good Physique comes as you get older I refer to it as muscle maturity.

[samoht]

Well if u do every thing right u can do both but it is easyer to lose then it is to gain, i hav lost 20kilo's in 7 weeks, dropping my body fat from 41 to 23 at the moment, but i have put 7kilo's of pure muscle aye

[deegee]

Well if u do every thing right u can do both but it is easyer to lose then it is to gain, i hav lost 20kilo's in 7 weeks, dropping my body fat from 41 to 23 at the moment, but i have put 7kilo's of pure muscle aye

Thats a good effort ion 7 weeks

[samoht]

Well if u do every thing right u can do both but it is easyer to lose then it is to gain, i hav lost 20kilo's in 7 weeks, dropping my body fat from 41 to 23 at the moment, but i have put 7kilo's of pure muscle aye

Thats a good effort ion 7 weeks

Hey cheers mate, anyone can do it aye, it just comes down to how bad u really want it.

There's that saying "go hard or go home" I use that alot when im training aye.

[of_wolf_and_man]

Then imagine a 16 year old skinny teenager 5"11 weighing 53kgs.

haha if i had read this around 9-10 months ago, i would've made the perfect real-life example :grin: except i wasnt THAT skinny... i think... BUT good for me, i am now 75kgs and still got plenty of years left in me to get BIG 8)