Maggie's Farm

Photo is your editor, after 6 months of exercising.

-Want to get bigger and heavier? If you are a scrawny and weak guy (or gal) like I was, your fitness job is relatively easy compared to flabby guys and gals. Just lift weights for 40 minutes 3 days/wk, eat carbs and meat, and avoid cardio exercise for a few months.

Here's good advice about getting into better, fit-for-life shape for those people: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Bigger.

They also have good advice there about exercising in general. I like their idea of eventually getting fit and strong enough to handle just a few full-body resistance exercises involving, combined, pretty much all muscle groups. It is efficient but takes work to get there.  Eg:

• Monday: squats, overhead presses, and pull ups


• Wednesday: deadlifts, bench presses, body rows


• Friday: lunges, dips, chin ups