Lemmy
03-06-2026 09:32:10
How to help my (hopelessly underweight) brother see noticeable benefits of weight-lifting in 6 months?
Yeah, he needs to be eating like 120g of protein a day min and pushing his carlorie intake up to at least 2500 per day (or more) if he wants to gain weight. If he doesn't want that to turn to fat he needs to be doing some kind of training, even body weight squats, lunges, pushups and chinups (if he has access to a bar) would see reasonable gains from his current state provided he's eating.
You get him professional help for his eating disorder...
If he's refusing to eat, gaining muscle mass is going to increase how many calories he uses for basal metabolism. But the truth is at that weight he won't build any muscle because there's nothing to build it with.
Like, you need to get him to eat, not exercise.
If he's refusing to eat, gaining muscle mass is going to increase how many calories he uses for basal metabolism. But the truth is at that weight he won't build any muscle because there's nothing to build it with.
Like, you need to get him to eat, not exercise.
03-06-2026 11:19:45
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