Wow. You guys are a wirey bunch! 
I’ve gotten up to 195, but then I got injured and Lyme desease which made me drop 35 lbs in two weeks. That was real frusterating because it was such hard work getting to that weight. Cool thing is that after I broke my body in, now it packs on pounds a lot easier. I’m back up to 185-190 and going strong. I figure I’ll level out when I’m 210-220’ish. My body fat has never risen above 9% in all this time. I measure skin folds every two weeks with calipers. Lowest was slightly under 5%. I was 160 at the time though! Heh! I’m in the process of writing a few training manuals for different approaches wirey people can take to fitness and also some general fitness ones too. I’m hoping to be selling them by the end of next year on the web.
Wow. You guys are a wirey bunch!
yeah… but i can still kick azz:p
Hell yes!
One of my favorite nicknames in the service was "wirey ba$tard).
luckily, we mesomorphs don’t have to worry about that 
In a rare lucid moment last night, I was thinking about this thread (I’m skinny but have lately been described as wirey which I take as a compliment and I remember going through this issue with metabolism.
I used to think I had the world’s fastest metabolism. Then I found out that it was more likely I had a lazy digestive system and the food I was eating wasn’t getting digested properly. Suddenly, I felt a lot less ****sure.
If you think that you’ve been eating far too much and getting nowhere weight-wise, then it’s possible that your digestive tract has become lazy. What this means is that it ‘knows’ that there’s loads of food along any minute now and therefore doesn’t feel it necessary to work its socks off gettin gthe nutrients and energy from what is already in ‘processing’.
The way out of that is to eat less, thus giving your digestive system a rude awakening as it receives requests from the body that it can’t fulfil…
If you suspect that, speak to a doctor - don’t base your actions on my strange thinking and vague memory.
-David
Well, it’s true that the more you eat the faster your metabolism goes. But as far as I know it still digests all the food. I dunno.
IronFist
Yeah. What that sounds like is that when you eat a lot and often, your metabolism will increases due to the fact that your body will be used to receiving sustanance regularly and will not feel need the need to store food energy for later use. Also, it takes energy to digest all that food (so digestion itself burns energy and gives off heat).
When you reduce how much you eat, your body will eventually adapt to this stimuli too. It will slow your metobism and store energy (fat) for later use. This is why when bb’ers “cut up” they cycle their caloric intake because too long at a reduced intake level will have the reverse effect that they are looking for.
What it all comes down to is the adaptability of the human body and the fact that you must stay one step ahead of it in order to progress towards any of your goals.
would it be a fair comment to say…
that jet li gets his strength from his kung fu…whereas donnie yen focuses more on weight training???
i dont kno wher i read this…jus wanted some opinions…
because i hav heard of and read…even seen skinny guys who are good at kung fu…and wud be a capable match for a stocky plum thug off the street…
It’s not fair to say that as you don’t know what either of their training regimens are like.
As for the skinny person thing, yes a skinny person has the potential to beat a larger one, but you can’t guarantee anything in a fight. Training only helps to even the odds for you. There are WAY to many factors involved to make such blanket statements. Heck, the thug off the street could have wrestled in school. The thug in the street may be a golden gloves boxer. The thug may have experience in some other MA. The thug could have friends, a gun or a knife.
I’ll second that. Having been on both sides of the bars I can attest that many street thugs have some training. A lot box, as mentioned some golden gloves, some grapple and some practice karate, many lift weights and some run. Heck, I don’t know where people get the ridiculas notion that only good people train or train hard. Most prisons in the U.S. are like health spas and gyms. You get slow, you get caught, you go to prison, you train, you spar, you hear lectures, you go back out on the street smarter, leaner and meaner.