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    6'4 215. Still look skinny help?

    Posts: 1 Member
    edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
    230 is my goal, im decently fit but want to look bigger what are good meals and work out exercises.

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    • Posts: 18,343 Member
      Start here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300326/most-helpful-posts-goal-gaining-weight-must-reads
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      Eat more. Lift more.

      How lean are you at 215lbs?
    • Posts: 940 Member
      My husband is 6'3 and 205. Men at the gym call him "skinny," but he isn't skinny. It's a matter of perspective. Are you sure that you are skinny and just "not huge?"

      To answer your question: eat more; lift more. My husband started tracking calories and protein and realized he was eating less of both than me.
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      crazyravr wrote: »
      You sir are not skinny. Me at 6'3" and 150lbs, thats skinny haha

      I'm 6'3 and 220lbs and think I'm small......
    • Posts: 13 Member
      edited March 2017
      trigden1991 wrote: »
      Eat more. Lift more.

      How lean are you at 215lbs?

      And lift heavier ;)
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      trigden1991 wrote: »
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      I'm 6'3 and 220lbs and think I'm small......

      Small is different to skinny.... isn't it?
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      TavistockToad wrote: »
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      Small is different to skinny.... isn't it?

      Semantics I would argue.
    • Posts: 2,399 Member
      6'3 255 - if I keep building the chest you can't see the belly,lol. Seriously though I need to drop 20-25 more. When I was at 220 I looked skinny but shredded. Gotta find that happy medium. Once you go monster you don't wanna go back.
    • Posts: 2,399 Member
      edited March 2017
      Eat mo! Lift heavy!
    • Posts: 2 Member
      I have been doing 25 pushups in a row each day for 5 years. My triceps are finally visible. That will help your chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, and wrists be stronger and you will look stronger.
    • Posts: 190 Member
      trigden1991 wrote: »
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      Lol

      The fact I was LOLing (well more of a head shaking chuckle) when I read that and then your response made me snort.
    • Posts: 9,097 Member
      caydenhazer wrote: »
      230 is my goal, im decently fit but want to look bigger what are good meals and work out exercises.

      Find a hypertrophy program.

      Eat about your body weight in protien, get some fats in, and don't forget carbs since you'll be bulking. So eat in a 300-500 calorie surplus.
    • Posts: 184 Member
      loaferman07 wrote: »
      I have been doing 25 pushups in a row each day for 5 years. My triceps are finally visible. That will help your chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, and wrists be stronger and you will look stronger.

      What....
      OP, eat all the foods (Peanut butter ftw) and LIFT HEAVY
    • Posts: 9,097 Member
      crazyravr wrote: »
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      230lbs of protein would be kind of extreme... just saying lol ;)

      Hardly on the extreme side. It's relative to the individual and their goal.
    • Posts: 2,399 Member
      edited March 2017
      A gram of protein for every pound you weigh or for what you want to weigh. That's what he means. If you are a heavy lifter or body builder that's what they go by. I did...that's the norm.
    • Posts: 796 Member
      Just curious as to why you measure in grams and weigh in pounds?
    • Posts: 140 Member
      "Just curious as to why you measure in grams and weigh in pounds?"

      My food scale can be set to metric or imperial, so I go for the easy metric math.
      Also, it feels more scientific.
      My body scale can show other units, but I think of body weight in terms of pounds, not kilos or stones.
      I blame society.
    • Posts: 583 Member
      At 6'4" I'd say you should be at least 250 lbs (mostly muscle obviously) without looking skinny.
    • Posts: 583 Member
      AnvilHead wrote: »
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      Dead on!
    • Posts: 6,626 Member
      Seth1825 wrote: »
      At 6'4" I'd say you should be at least 250 lbs (mostly muscle obviously) without looking skinny.

      At least. The most competitive (read: not fat) powerlifters at my height of 5'10" tend to be in the 220 and 242 weight classes, so I'd imagine 6'4" would be notably higher.
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      Seth1825 wrote: »
      At 6'4" I'd say you should be at least 250 lbs (mostly muscle obviously) without looking skinny.

      250lbs lean. Lol. He's chubby at 215lbs.
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