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I'll add a few points here with the caveat that I've been training since 2008 so it has been a decent journey.
First point:
Are you properly hydrated every day? I don't mean do you drink enough water, but do you have adequate mineral intake, but specifically potassium? I've been on the Potassium/Taurine hype train lately, (called K-Water) because it has substantially helped me with symptoms of hormone imbalance.
Most people are likely potassium deficient, because sodium and potassium compete for the same channels, so they sort of cancel each other out. Too much sodium will skew the balance toward potassium deficiency.
You might also want to get a hormone profile done by an endo to see if there's issues there.
Second point:
How do you train? Do you follow the training methods of what everybody and their grandmother online tell you to do? Or do you train more instinctively to how your body feels?
I ask this because 99% of people online will tell you that as a natural lifter, you need to lift heavy. 6 to 12 reps with heavy weight. This was how I trained in the first 8 or so years of my lifting life, doing what every other fitness personality would parrot, and to be fair it did help me build somewhat of a foundation at least for my upper body.
However personally my legs did not grow with heavy lifting, this made me hate training legs. Especially having scoliosis too. So a couple of years ago I thought, since heavy isn't working, in fact it was hurting, I will train legs with light/moderate weight with high reps. It was here that I realised I had been training inefficiently (for myself) this whole time. Doing goblet squats in cardio intervals, 15-20 reps a set, strict 60 second break, 10 sets. In just a few months of Doing this 2-3 times a week my legs grew so much more than all of my years of heavy lifting. So I did this with every other body part and what do you know? Muscles exploded as if I had 'newbie gains' again.
To compare this with your situation, I also trained my friend this way, he would pay me $50 bucks a week to put him through a couple good workouts. He is tall (6'2"), lanky, wiry and skinny fat as you would say but he had no trouble adding visible definition and size to his muscles with intense high rep training.
Perhaps you might want to find a training partner who will push you harder.
First point:
Are you properly hydrated every day? I don't mean do you drink enough water, but do you have adequate mineral intake, but specifically potassium? I've been on the Potassium/Taurine hype train lately, (called K-Water) because it has substantially helped me with symptoms of hormone imbalance.
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Most people are likely potassium deficient, because sodium and potassium compete for the same channels, so they sort of cancel each other out. Too much sodium will skew the balance toward potassium deficiency.
You might also want to get a hormone profile done by an endo to see if there's issues there.
Second point:
How do you train? Do you follow the training methods of what everybody and their grandmother online tell you to do? Or do you train more instinctively to how your body feels?
I ask this because 99% of people online will tell you that as a natural lifter, you need to lift heavy. 6 to 12 reps with heavy weight. This was how I trained in the first 8 or so years of my lifting life, doing what every other fitness personality would parrot, and to be fair it did help me build somewhat of a foundation at least for my upper body.
However personally my legs did not grow with heavy lifting, this made me hate training legs. Especially having scoliosis too. So a couple of years ago I thought, since heavy isn't working, in fact it was hurting, I will train legs with light/moderate weight with high reps. It was here that I realised I had been training inefficiently (for myself) this whole time. Doing goblet squats in cardio intervals, 15-20 reps a set, strict 60 second break, 10 sets. In just a few months of Doing this 2-3 times a week my legs grew so much more than all of my years of heavy lifting. So I did this with every other body part and what do you know? Muscles exploded as if I had 'newbie gains' again.
To compare this with your situation, I also trained my friend this way, he would pay me $50 bucks a week to put him through a couple good workouts. He is tall (6'2"), lanky, wiry and skinny fat as you would say but he had no trouble adding visible definition and size to his muscles with intense high rep training.
Perhaps you might want to find a training partner who will push you harder.