From the archive :
1/18/19
People think you need to lift weights to get big. Ha! Have they never been to Walmart?
Food is the greater part of size. No one starved half to death ever weighed 300+ pounds.
To be big you just need the calories, though without activity you may not like the end result.
Still fatasses can be athletic. Look to sumo, wrestling, football. The difference is in the training.
Eating big and being active is the whole of the matter.
The body won’t care whether it’s wide stanced power squats or hindu squats. It just needs the stimulus followed by the calories.
Give it both, and big, while still being able to move, you shall grow.
Enough activity and you won’t be fat period.
The most impressively built man I’ve ever met was a ~6’6″ over 300lbs and lean construction worker of Scottish descent. The giant Highlander never once set foot in a gym, he just worked, and ate. His plates were always heaping, and his hours long.
(You know I’ve actually met an Englishman fitting the exact same description.)
Actual high volume (really only found by working labor) has such side effects.
Eat enough you’ll be big, get enough stimulus you’ll be strong, move enough, and you won’t be fat.
Simple.