Hey guys,

to day I have a first book review on 36Pounds.com for you!The book is called Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks
and is written by Randall J. Strossen. I read it last week and loved it. It shares my view of training in the sense that you need to train with basics-first routine, keep it simple workout hard and you will succeed. Book is a short read, about 100 pages of content only, writing style is nice and easy to understand, like a very experienced gym buddy talking to you and just giving advice.

Today, I want to post a Success story of one of the blog visitors – Jair’s story. They guy gained 15lbs in 1,5 months using advice of this blog. Most importantly though, he had enough guts and determination to eat enough and actually follow the advice and stick with it. Some people just read stuff, but don’t apply it as advised.

But Jair succeeded and agreed to share his story with us. He is inspirational for me and I hope for you too ;) Give this a read! ;)

Hello everyone, my name is Jair and I’m here to tell you about my success in weight/muscle gain. Throughout my teenage years I was always your average fun, outgoing, athletic guy. You would think I was happy with how my life was

I will be posting interview with a guy who gained 15lbs using advice on this blog. I’m sending over questions to him and once we finish the interview you will hear a story from a guy who succeeded. Hopefully, this will inspire you guys! ;)

Hope I will be able to post it this tomorrow or the day after.

On other news, blog has had lots of traffic from StumbleUpon. THANK YOU to everyone who visited and Stumbled the blog! ;) Hope you will stick around and keep Stumbling posts of 36Pounds.com so more and more skinny guys learned about it!

Cheers,
Adrian

So I’m now reading a blog post about blogging (one more thing I’m interested in besides fitness and other stuff) about how the ability to kick your own ass is one major factor in one’s success or failure. And I’m like “wow..this really applies to gaining muscle and working out too!!!!!”

If you can kick your own butt, then you will succeed, if not, you will quit training or just be slacking and won’t reach your goals!

Kicking your own ass means doing things when the going gets tough. When you are tired of going to the gym for 6 months or when you are not gaining as fast as you want (very likely) or when you can’t eat another sandwich or drink another glass of milk….

And this is where forcing yourself to do it will help, this is where persistence and patience kicks in and ones who have it succeed. Don’t know if you have it or not, but I hope you can kick your own ass and succeed ;)

Cheers,
Adrian

Stop fidgeting… from observing myself I can say that I do a lot of it. I can’t really sit around easily and relaxed in a one place. The same is on the bus stop, I gotta move and do some small moves. Standing in one place calmly is very hard…

Wel, guess what…it eats a lot of energy, small movements like playing with a pen, fidgeting, moving constantly and etc, are burning a lot of calories. Lyle McDonald calls this “Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis/Spontaneous Physical Activity (NEAT/SPA)”. And we skinny guys must limit it. I know it’s hard though. I still catch myself fidgeting.

This fidgeting thing is one of the big reasons why we tend to use the excuse of “fast metabolism”..if we fidgeted less, then we would burn less calories daily, meaning our bodies would use more calories to build muscle! ;)

Lyle McDonald writes this about NEAT: