The impossible challenge

Tomassively

My name is Tomas, and I'm 34 years old. I've been on MFP for quite some time, but I've never used the community. I'm here with one impossible challenge, and I need help.

In short, I am looking for professionals who think they can help me do the impossible. As simple as it may sound, it's to gain weight. But there's a catch. Ten years of personal trainers, diets, supplements, different training routines, and much more - no one and nothing has been able to help me gain any real weight, and keep it on. If there are any professionals out there who honestly think they can help after reading the rest of this post, get in touch. I am more than willing to pay, of course. But fair warning, no one has been able to so far...

As stated, I am 34 years of age. I weigh about 60kg and I am 1.91m tall. So my BMI puts me in the underweight category, as well as being called skinny all my life... I have tried everything from serious training routines with PTs face to face, four to six times a week, as well as eating very healthily and calorie counting, trying to cram in 4000+ calories a day. I've tried macro counting, though with less success as the trainer at that point wasn't as "on it," so I found it hard to keep up. I've trained in normal gyms, I've trained on OCR courses, I've trained in battlegrounds (logs, hammers, and all that good stuff), and I've trained at home.

I've had some medical checks to try and rule out anything there, and my thyroid is supposedly fine, blood work all normal. I'm generally healthy and have no health issues apart from that I had bursitis a while back and had an operation on my left shoulder, which gives me some issues now while training, but I think it's more than possible to work around that issue with the right professionals.

Alright, that's me. I'm incredibly dedicated and ready to give it my all, but given I've been through so much, I am not going to commit to anything unless there's someone out there who seriously believes they can do what no one else could. Someone who can set up a training and meal plan, telling me exactly when and how to train, as well as what to eat and when. And not the run of the mill plans that you see everytwhere else - if there's one thing I have been successful in learning through it all, it's that I am a special nut case. Not the run of the mill, and for whatever reason, there's something no one else has caught, holding me back.

Looking forward to hearing from you... Or crickets, who knows. 😉

All the best, Tomas

lynn_glenmont

Train less. Fewer times per week (3X not 4 to 6X). Probably less time per session (say a 5 minute warmup, 30 minutes on a progressive resistance routine focused on full body exercises, followed maybe by 10 mins of moderately challenging cardio).

Eat more. Once you meet your nutritional needs, there's no bonus to sticking to chicken and broccoli and protein shakes. Once you meet your nutritional needs, eat calorie dense foods you like to get enough excess energy to gain weight.

Once you start seeing upward movement on the scales, you can jigger with the calorie goals and cardio to try to zero in on about a half pound per week, because even on your lean frame, you probably don't want too high a percentage of what you gain to be fat.

No charge.

Tomassively

Appreciate the reply Lynn, thanks.
Though, I've tried that and it's resulted in nothing I'm afraid.

Like right now for example, I am measuring my calorie output and input, and I am in a 500+ calories surplus every day, and gaining zero weight. I mean, nothing. Just that alone, leads me to believe there's something wrong, something "special" or whatever.

I've trained moderate amounts before, focused on big compound movements and made sure I was in a huge calorie surplus, loads of protein, but nothing.