I’m a skinny 15 year old who works out to get bigger. one part that i find really hard to develop is my midsection. it’s hard for me to get thicker abs and i would like to fill up the space between my hip bones and my lats.
tracy mcgrady, who jumps pretty damn high seems to have a thick midsection so i would like to know how i can achieve this?
Your best weapon at building a think posterior chain/midsection is going to be implementing squats, deads, GM’s, and other big compound lift to your training. These above all will thicken you up very well.
Also ab work after you have completed these movements. Try adding in some ab and oblique excersizes that you use heavy resistance and lower reps. For example weighted decline sit ups, cable crunches, DB and Barbell side bends, etc.
One thing to note is that during these movements you need to really concentrate on using the abs to move the weight. For example one mistake many trainees fall into is primarily using their hip flexors while performing weighted decline situps. Strat with a weight you can control and focus on nailing the form and FEEL it in your abs. Rolling your shoulders forward. Once you get used to the feel you can progress in the weight.
Hope this helps,
Phill
Get a corporate job working 7 to 5 and get married.
That seems to be filling up that pesky region between your hip bone and lats in a lot of us. 
Ok, sorry for the redirection.
You’ll hear it a ton…your foundation exercises although not directly targeting your mid section will contribute greatly to overall trunk growth.
My views are that you can always throw in direct ab work, crunches, russian twists, etc, but if you can, add some weight to it, alot of weight to it, and keep the relative rep count lower (10-15).
Sounds like you may need to seach for some Coach Davies articles.
you are kidding about T-Mac having a thick midsection. That would definitely not be his goal considering he wants to be quick and light. if you want a thick midsection do squats, deadlifts, heavy ab work. laters pk
I’ll just echo what lot’s of people have said and are thinking. 1. eat like every meal is going to be your last aka a ton of food, but keep it clean. No matter how much you train, if you don’t have the nutrition you’ll never grow. Do what these other guys said, and if you want a program may I suggest Westside for skinny bastards. Defranco knows what he’s talkin about. I just started that program a couple of weeks ago and it’s awsome.
Take up golf!!! As a golfer and using my entire core every day of the week just golf wise I have a thick mid-section. I still have the ever sought after “V” shape but since I work my obliques everyday the little fat I have there sticks out a little bit more because of the added mass in the oblique area.
Along with the help Phill recommended, try doing weighted rotational exercises. Such as russian twists. standing VIOLENT russian twists, side medicine ball tosses and barbell twists.
A couple of exercises to throw into your routine:
High-to-Low Cable Woodchoppers (heavy)
Full-contact twists
Barbell rollouts
And all of these:
I was doing full out sit ups on a decline bench and that seemed to thicken up my midsection and also gave me better ab devlopment. But as a result my midsection got too thick and i have since returned to regular crunches and rope crunches for abs.