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Long hours of debugging eating burgers. j/k

I was a fat kid who lost fat at puberty, and by 20s was about 75 at 5,9ish, reasonably muscular, but for various reasons went down to 59 (no health issues, just bad nutrition, sleep depravation, and over exuberance with programming) in mid 20s. I didn't even realize it was so drastic until someone asked my weight and I said 75 and they ROFL. I was pathetically skinny. I started lifting, specifically 5x5 (google it), and did bodyweight exercises. mainly pushups, chinups and squats, and this, along with some generous diet got me to about 80 in six months (probably 15% fat). I am not sure if in my case it was 'restoring' the 'native weight', but it certainly helped. Now mid 30s I make sure I remain between 75 and 80.

PS: Go easy on deadlifts. It gets pretty nasty if you have bad form and come close to lifting 50kgs. It will hurt everything when done wrong - shoulders, wrists, biceps, back, knees - just like it is supposed to build everything when done properly. Same applies to squats, rows and ohp. Practice under supervision of an instructor, or take it really really REALLY slowly to perfect the form. I did the latter. When executed properly, there is no exercise as exhilarating as deads, except probably ohp and chinups.




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