Whiskers

I am looking to gain a little weight, but I want to gain in the right places. Is there any way to gain weight and avoid gaining in waist area?

Doc.Booty

No. Your body puts on fat where it wants to, sorry

Eat like mad and lift like an animal. The routine i put in the workout sticky will be great for you.

Any fat you put on can be taken off fairly easily in the spring.

Whiskers

That sucks. Maybe the types of foods or when to eat?

NBP_TSXY

In order to help somewhat avoiding gaining it in your midsection I would still try to avoid processed and sugar foods.

Experts believe sugary foods add more size to your waistline compared to other foods. Thats just what I have read though, I dont know from personal experience.

Still try to eat clean but eat more.
I am hoping you want to put on lean muslce and not just size?

Whiskers

In a nutshell, I want to gain weight in my arms, wrists and chest but nowhere else...... I have little girly wrists now....

Doc.Booty

Nope. Your body puts it on where it wants to. Some research suggests that stress makes your body prefer to store fat around your stomach, but it's not really in any significant way.

Where fat is stored is determined by your genetics.

Doc.Booty

Your wrist size isn't gonna change, sorry

Focus on adding some lean mass for now, then reevaluate yourself in a few months.

NBP_TSXY

Unfortunatly Abreece is right, you cant choose where to gain weight.

I would do what Abreece suggested, just eat more calories now (still try to eat clean but not as strict) and lift heavier... when it comes Spring time you can cut your calories back and eat cleaner and u will lean out and hopefully have added some muscle.

You dont want bigger legs? I would still do leg workouts though because your body will produce more testosterone (which is good for many reasons but here it will help you with your upper body progress as well.

Do you take any supplements?

Yeah the wrists arent really going to get big. lol..

Whiskers

My legs are big enough. I wasn't able to buy a certain watch because my wrists were too small for the band. Thanks for the info.

Doc.Booty

Unfortunately your wrists are pretty much all bone, so not much you can do there.

Seriously, try out the routine in the workout sticky. I think it's exactly what you need.

Whiskers

Will do.

Legendman

I have the same prob. w/ the girly wrists. LOL!!! Only bone there, which sucks!!

Whiskers

I know. I asked a couple of the trainers at the gym and they said to live with it.

After loosing 90 lbs I am most surprised about loosing weight in my wrists and feet.

ric

I'm 6'-2" and have bulked up to a massive 160 in my adult life. When I get a cold and loose weight, I rapidly take on the appearance of a survivor of Etheopia, despite the fact that I have excellent muscle definition, much to the envy of my trainer. My bone structure is "small", and I buy women's wristbands. There!!! I said it.


Get over it, your basic body frame ain't gonna change. What you can do is accept its shortcomings and work with its assets. But - your bone structure is pretty innate, and it is not going to alter its appearance with some effort to add fatty tissue to parts of your body that are essentially working joints, and thus somewhat leaner. Your body is simply not hardwired to work that way.

Whiskers

^^^ Wrist implants??

Rock2534

I have the same issue, small bones, especially my wrists. I was looking to buy another movado while in aruba last year. Found exactly what i wanted, good price, then i tried it on. Looked huge on me, shot that plan to hell. Oh well.

Whiskers

I can't buy a Tag Heuer with the leather (clasp) strap bacause of my wrists.

Adam_Schwartz

You could do a very specific lifting regimen to add mass to certain muscle groups - if you pounded your legs and ate properly, they will grow and in turn you'll gain weight. But like others said, if you don't have the right frame, then you might never add the mass you really want.

gavriil

Only if your body "says so". Different people gain at (slightly) different spots and at different rates, but overall we're all the same in general terms. Men gain more around the spare tire area (and of course that includes the tommy). Women gain more around the thighs than men do and some women gain around "the gut" a lot more than others.

So if your body "likes" to store fat around the waste area (which I am 99% sure it does), then that's where it will mostly go if it will be added as fat.

With regard to fat: Spot reducing and "spot adding" is not possible.

Spot adding (and to a certain extend reducing) is possible ONLY with regard to adding muscle (but not fat).

gavriil

That's possibly in its majority, only with adding muscle.

gavriil

It is possible for wrists to grow, but it takes a long long time because it's mostly ligament, bone and tendons. You have to lift very heavy around the wrist and for a long long time for it to adopt.

Hard matters (meaning not muscle) do grow but it takes a long time and the right amount of execises, intensity and overload to happen. Finally, the do not grow even remotely close to as much as muscles do.

gavriil

Hard matter does change because it needs to support the new muscle and the higher forces applied now (comparing an untrained with a very advanced trained person). First the density changes. That takes a long time but it happens. Then depending on how old you are, bone mass also changes. Tendons also get bigger and more dense, etc, etc.

For a visible change though, we are talking many years of very focused and hard work and only after you know exactly what causes that change so that you apply it to your routine.