QUOTE(pergilahsayang @ Oct 24 2020, 05:57 PM)
Hello Sifu,
I'm a skinny guy trying to bulk up & have been training for 4 months.
At first, it was going fine until my muscle able to handle more weight.
On my 3rd or 4th set of deadlift & squat, I am so winded, out of breath, the heart is pumping too fast for my comfort, body felt light & cant feel my feet (same feeling if having low blood sugar or low blood pressure). No case of fainting yet as I immediately sit down (bracing myself, afraid I faint standing up).
On top of that, squat makes me want to puke too urghh.
Question:
1) What is it that I am lacking? Body endurance? VO2 max? Or low glucose/carb in the system?
2) How to alleviate this or improve this?
3) In the case where my heart pumped too fast and out of breath, what should I do? Move around? sit down? My body instinctively wants to sit, but I am not sure if that is the right thing to do.
3) Is creatine easy on the stomach? My health background & other info:
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1) I have a weak stomach after an operation when I was 12. Now I have gastric, light GERD & can't eat a large portion of food.
2) My stomach condition is so weak that, the last time when I took Whey & weight gain, I got sick for 1 month. The doctor can't pinpoint which of the two causing it, so I trashed both (can pm me if you want them hahahaha).
3) Because of my stomach condition, I only do workout 5 hours after my last meal, or I'll be in a state of nausea / want to puke.
4) I did not do any cardio at the moment as I am scared of 'burning my calories'. It is hard for me to be in a caloric surplus with my 'not-so-steller-stomach' right now already
Those compound movements are definitely hard on your body, evenmore so if you do proper bracing your core, and holding your breath in like a can of unopened coke during the motion of deadlift/squats. But, it's very surprising when you've been training for
4 months and you're still having such a major issue with this? I mean don't get me wrong, i'm still worn out like hell after 5x8 of deadlifts/squats - but it's within limit.
Looking on top of whatever physical issues you may have, are you using too heavy of a weight? What's your height/weight/bodyfat ratio? You kept on increasing the weight during that 4 months duration?
Are you squatting more then your bodyweight for reps? Try 80-90% bodyweight for reps - those should be easy for a typical male.
Are you sure you have the proper form down? Proper form makes yourself feel "solid" - it's really a hard feeling to describe but it just feels right - and it took me 6months+ of solid form practice to get all my compound forms spot-on for my body's aspect ratios.
Also - are you consistent in that 4 months of weightlifting? ie.
at the bare minimum, 3 type of compound lift(squat/bench/deadlift/ohp/row) every week for 16weeks without miss?
And no, i won't comment on your nutrition/other body related matters as it's not possible to comment on those with just words you've posted - i'm not a e-doctor.
QUOTE(guysmiley @ Oct 24 2020, 06:41 PM)
i used to be 173cm and 52-54kg. damn skinny!!! one day i went to farmasi to buy that weigh gain, but the staff recommended me multi viitamins. she said need to tale evryday for at least 3 months. but 2 months later i started gaining weight it kept going up. i never go below 75kg. i used to be active. but these days im too busy and my weight now is between 78-82kg.
with your stomach condition, i wont recommend too much heavy lifting. i had stomach operations few years ago and since then i feel pain if i do any heavy lifting or cycling. try things to increase your stamina instead.
also bear in mind,
it will take a very long time to see any difference.Correct, to see any solid difference, at least 4-6 months of consistent effort must be done first! And if really things doesn't go your way - be very critical in evaluating your own effort or just get a personal trainer - as they will be accountable to evaluate every aspect towards hitting your goal (not those stupid p.trainers u see in gym who help ppl how to bench press only)
oh and.. 78-82 kg, that's fat for someone that short right? How's it feel to experience being skinny, and then fat, which is better?