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Originally Posted by Gem
It's quite hard to build muscle. 5 pounds is more than 2 kilos, which is a significant increase in a year. To build muscle it is best to do body building type training - resistance training for muscular hypertrophy.
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Hmmm. I've been working with a lot of bodybuilders in my life and I'll have disagree with that. Older men tend to have more issues getting muscle. 5 pounds in a year is staggeringly low for someone of my age. One of my friends jumped up much higher though he had much more body weight and I can note few others in the group too. But as I mentioined this due to complications around race and genetics. I just happen to be African and Native American and, with some exceptions, our races have trouble gaining massive amounts of muscle mass.
We were doing bodybuilding, but that's not the point here. Really. Other than the fact I have issues with metabolic blocks, many of the positions I held don't let me go to a gym and I can't afford gym equipment either so bodybuilding is out of the question for a while. Thing is I don't want to buff up. I want to stay lithe and physically strong enough to do parkour, not the 'strong man' that cultures are trying to push on me to be becuase I'm not that type of athletic. Saying that a healthy male specimen is someone who is buff enough to lift twice their weight and more is absurd. I know bodybuilders who can't do what do I'm terms if 540 kicks, and full front flips becuase they are muscle bound and incapable of doing so. All I was trying to say was that it's unfair for this staffing agency to deny me office jobs just becuase I am male and even more so since I'm not the 'type' of male my society wants.