AZBridger
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I was in the same boat. Blew up to 6'4" in high school and only weighed 160-170ish pounds. could not gain weigh to save my life. I had a dream of playing college football and took a year off after my senior year to focus on training/gaining weight. Walked on at college the next year weighing around 225lbs and then got up to 255 my sophomore year of college, gaining 85lbs over basically 2.5 years. The hard thing now is keeping weight off! I've hovered around 225-235 for the last 15 or so years after college. I ate everything in sight (5k+ calories a day), took ALL the supplements and lifted heavy. Supplements used to not be regulated (or clean) like they are now and "worked" a LOT better than modern ones. The big lifts like squat, deadlift and bench will put weight on when you are giving your body enough fuel. Also, it will come with maturity. It will be hard for your son to gain/keep weight running cross country unless he wants to eat 7k calories a day, which is miserable. I had a blast playing college ball for several years but had I known I would struggle keeping weight off my entire life after working so hard to build a frame that could pack on that much weight, I'm not sure whether I would do it over.
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