<p>Just to show that it could happen to you....</p>
<p>As an 8th grader, I was 5'6" and weighed 170 pounds. I ate ice cream everyday, never played any sports, and never lifted any weights. My mile time was 16:23 that April, I did no more than 30 sit-ups in a minute, I never stayed on the bar for more than 0.5 seconds, and I was weak with a vertical jump of less than 10 inches. Finally I started playing basketball with intensity (but no skill) and got my weight down to 154 pounds by the summer. </p>
<p>In 9th grade, I was much more fit, but I continued to stagnate in some areas. I was still weak as hell (only a 14 inch jump) , although my flexed arm hang went up to 20 seconds, I finally passed the mile requirement for the state with an 8:25, and I had signed up to run xcountry the next year. It was during that summer I started lifting weights and running with more intensity. By working all lower body muscles, I actually saw something develop until I stopped lifting when school started. After 150+ hours of running by last October, I was at 145 pounds and 5'10". People were telling me I was anorexic, despite me feeling perfectly fine. </p>
<p>When I got cut from the basketball team, mainly for lack of athleticism, I re-dedicated myself to the weights for 4 intense months. After these 4 months (by April) I could squat 200 pounds...my bench press 10 rep max went from 45 pounds to 80 pounds, which may not seem like much, but I could hang for up to 55 seconds now. By the spring, my mile time was down to 5:59, my sit-ups shot up to 57 in one minute, and I actually GAINED enormous amounts of muscle mass. This summer I have seen that mile drop to 5:15, and that vertical jump is surely but slowly getting there (22 inches). </p>
<p>If you had a turnaround similar to the above...elaborate, bitte.</p>
<p>I was 6'3 220 lbs a couple of years ago, now I'm 6'3 195 lbs. While I have lost muscle (since I've quit football) my mile time is around 6 flat and my max bench press is 255lbs.</p>
<p>Well, now that I'm 5'11" and 160 pounds, I look a little bigger, especially when I wear shorts for some reason....might have to do with the calves.</p>
<p>I'm 5'10 and 120 lbs. In 7th grade I ran a mile in ~8 mins. By the end of 8th grade, I dropped it to ~6 mins. People call me "anorexic" but it's just because of my fast metabolism and I can't really do anything about it.</p>
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People misuse that term so often. I don't know about you, but it ticks me off. Thin does not mean anorexic. Furthermore, if an anoretic heard someone accusing a thin person of being anorexic it would really hurt. The person being accused may even be hurt as well.
Anorexia is a mental disorder, not how much body fat you have. How much body fat you have is relevant to anorexia, but it's not anorexia itself.
I just had to voice my irritation.</p>
<p>i'm 5'2 and 110 pounds...i'm trying to drop some body fat by running every day for the past few months. it's not working though. i don't eat that much fat--no red meat, no soft drinks, no snacking. but i'm just built to store fat on my abdomen. i'm gonna keep working on it.
and i liked the bitte :)</p>
<p>8th grade I was 5'9 165, then during the summer of my 9th grade year I had a growth spurt which increased my height to 5'11 and my wieght went down to 152 when i started running a mile a day, in 8th grade my mile was about 13mintues. Now summer before 12 grade my mile is about 7minutes, distance wise I can run 5 miles an hour and benchpress 115 lbs. 8th grades i had 30 percent body fat now i'm about 12 percent, stats now are at 5'11 close to 6'0 165pounds a good percentage of that is muscle.</p>
<p>185-187cm (no idea in english system) 230lbs. Off-season, will drop to 212 lbs -- my lucky weight for wrestling weight class of 192-215, weighted 212 during wrestling in 8th and 9th grades. As long as I can run three miles with sprints everyday I don't care how much weight I gain off-season :)
I'm basically loosing 20-30 pounds each year before and gain them after wrestling season.</p>
<p>I used to weigh 130 pounds in like 6th grade. Then one day, I started eating just a slice of bread for lunch and dinner and lost 20 pounds in around two months, and grew a couple of inches, 5' 4" now.</p>
<p>i used to weigh almost 130, at 5'1, which was purely fat because i have always had a tiny frame. i cut out garbage food, unhealthy snacks, and the likes, started exercising moderately and eating lots of fruit and veggies, and dropped 40 pounds over 6 months without really dieting heavily or anything, just by making better choices.</p>
<p>I'm in 8th grade, going to 9th grade in a month.
I'm 5' 8 - 5' 9" (excluding shoes :p), and I weigh around 115(?) - 120. I'm kind of a skinny-tall frame, but I have all my fat around my abdomen :( So I'm 5'8", 115, have these chopstick arms, pretty powerful quads and OK calves, pretty good looking, and a freakin potbelly rofl. I don't really eat any unhealthy foods, I barely eat anything at all, I'm vegeterian and Asian, and I'm just like what??? My mile time in 8th grade is ok I guess, around 8:30. What should I do?</p>
<p>no need to join a gym. that's the thing about running--you can do it outside, it's more fun that way. and running outside is harder than running on a treadmill anyway. i guess you would have to join a gym to use weight equipment. but there are lots of strengthening exercises you can do at home with a set of dumbbells. google em.
you can definitely get enough protein as a vegetarian--nuts and beans and all that good stuff. athletes love peanut butter :) but it would be easier to get the protein from meat. chicken is good--no need to go hardcore and eat red meat.</p>
<p>I actually do run outside, like 1-2 miles with my dad. I've seen improvement in that I can run longer, and I have much better endurance, but no physical change. :p</p>
<p>About how much protein a day should I be aiming for, considering my age (13), body type and weight and stuff?
I love peanut butter too :p, but I'm far from an athlete. More of your math/science nerd lol</p>