re: How do football players get and stay so big?

Yeah, but you are a woman. A woman with a small brain and weak bird arms.

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I'm 5'8" 142lbs

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I'm 5'7 165 pounds. The Dwarves get the gold in the end, brother.

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I workout every day(crossfit)

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Quit doing Crossfit. You're wanting to gain weight. Crossfit is for one a freaky cult. And two, you need to focus more on strength training.

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I eat around 5,000 calories a day(Paleo)

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bullshite.

You are not eating 3000 calories over the average caloric intake at 5'8 and not gaining weight. You either need to count your calories more accurately or you have some kind of tapeworm.

Also, quit the fads. Just eat sensibly. Eat balanced. Don't worry about Keto, Vegan, Paleo, etc.

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How do these football players weigh 230lbs or so at 6'1 - 6'2" and only eat McDonalds once a day and such?

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They're not.

Football players are on strict diets usually supplied and regulated for them by the dining hall. I know at Auburn, the S&C coach had an extensive plan for each player detailing what he should eat and drink every day.

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My friend, Kevin, says that they're on steroids. But they can't be on steroids, because that's against the rules of football.

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They do take supplements. I doubt many are on roids. HGH maybe. Definitely every legal supplement they can ingest.

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Where can I buy HGH so I can beat up CatFan?

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Ummmmm... do you even lift, brah?

'Roids is the short answer. The other side is calories and training. As for my stats, I'm about to be 40 and have a small frame (my 13 year old daughter's wrists are actually thicker than mine). I'm 5'10/210 with a 325 bench press and a size 50 coat. How? Lifting heavy and calories. I won't knock Crossfit because I've done it myself and, aside from the compound lifts under heavy fatigue that I refuse to do, I think that it works......for its intended purpose.....which is overall fitness. If you want to get big, you have to lift big and eat big.....including copious amounts of complex carbohydrates.

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how is this possible??

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Don't know. I measured them yesterday and hers are actually slightly thicker. I just train hard and eat well. I can hit 16 bench reps at 225, but my daughter, despite her thicker wrists, doesn't come close.

OTOH, I have very wide shoulders despite my otherwise small frame, which is why I wear a 50 coat. If you were to see me, you'd think "that's a pretty big dude", but my wrists are those of a woman.....or 13 year old girl. Weird, I know.

To answer your question, some people are just naturally big and have muscular frames.

I am 5'11 210 and do crossfit 5x a week, eat pretty much paleo and while I don't have ripped abs, you can definitely see I am damn close to a "six pack"

I do not even take protein shakes or any of that garbage. I just naturally am this big


Crossfit Lifts

Front Squat- 345
Back Squat - Never max but can rep over 400
Clean- 295
Snatch- 215
Thruster - 245

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^^^SOLID^^^

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I mean when I go to Crossfit and it is brolift/strength days it is fun barely trying and crushing people.

That being said, I would rather be 5'10 170 with a slender frame than my size any day of the week. Slender with toning is a better look then "jacked." Even if I was at 8% bodyfat (approx 192-200) I would have to squeeze into size 32 waist pants and I look like a toolbag when I wear proper size polos for my height


Not to mention I have to monitor my diet to ensure I don't gain any more weight (muscle, fat or both) which blows when you are 21.

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I mean when I go to Crossfit and it is brolift/strength days it is fun barely trying and crushing people.

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I had a similar issue with Crossfit. I was strong, but I was also somewhat fat with no wind. Anyhow, I was getting SMOKED in the endurance exercises by these soccer moms that had been Crossfitting for a while. Then came the strength exercises. I kept adding weight, and adding weight, to the point that they were like "WTF is he doing?". Then I pushed it....REPEATEDLY. It shut 'em up pretty quick. I was officially the "meathead" of the class.

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The garbage I meant was any type of performance enhancer. Anything from creatine to steroids to IGF-1. I am both too broke and too scared to take any of that stuff

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You're still young though. Personally, I use steroids (no, not that illegal shite). I was legitimately diagnosed with low testosterone, so I take an injection of 120 mg of testosterone cypianate once a week. When you're old and busted up like me, it's a game-changer. The dosage is low, but, at almost 40 (November), I'm stronger now than I was in my 20's and early 30's. I'm going to try to hit 350 on the bench on my 40th birthday. I'll call that a win if I get it. If not, I'm still stronger than over 99% of men my age.