I'm underweight, and it started to piss me off.

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I currently weigh 104 pounds, wich is really underweight considering I'm 5'6" feet tall. Two or three days ago I started eating 3-5 peanut butter toasts every morning and eating steak or chicken for dinner and nuts, lots of nuts.

I do at least a hundread pushups by series of 10, 200 crunches by series of 50 and 5 planks by series of 1 minute each. I also lift water gallons for my forearms and use my parent's stationnary bike for the legs.

I get some muscle pain in the chest but I can deal with that without any problem.

Do you think I'm doing good or is this all gonna be pointless in the end?

Why are you doing all that cardio to gain weight? You need to evaluate how many calories you were eating before, then start increasing and counting what you add. You may need a lot more than you think.

You probably need to be lifting heavier to build muscle. And with the extra muscle you'll naturally burn more.

It's a good start, but I think you may be overdoing it and missing major muscle groups.

You also cannot keep doing the same routine.
You need to challenge yourself again and again.
As soon as you don't get a good challenge you need to make it more difficult.

That's true. I always try to lift heavier or add an extra rep each week so that I know I'm improving. I have read that the muscle needs to be fatigued within 90 seconds to become stronger and increase in size. Otherwise you're only increasing stamina. If you have to do so many reps to get fatigued, then you aren't going to build much muscle.

I also change my routine every once in awhile by retiring old exercises and adding in new ones. Then after awhile switch again. I have also read that the body will adapt to an exercise after awhile and not work as hard.

.........I gained weight when I was younger by eating microwavable burritos and playing videogames. This was when I was 9, and around that time, there weren't many kids in my neighborhood that wanted to play. They just wanted to sit around and play video games as well.

Right now, I'm nearly 17, about 6'2", and around 247 pounds. I wanna get down to at least 200 pounds.

lol, I am exactly 10 pounds overweight. I am 6"6"" and my base is supposed to be 215, I weigh 225. and its hard as hell to lose or gain anything. I can literally (and have done before) eaten 4 footlong subway sandwiches with about half a cup of mayonnaise and gained like 15 pounds lol, then went to sleep. I woke up at 226 the next day. I cannot Gain or lose weight for crap.

That's because weight gain/loss is not a one-off thing, but is all about consistency.

Eating extremely unhealthy in just one day will do practically nothing. I've heard you have to eat about 10x your daily calories to gain even a tiny bit of weight.

So if you eat 2,000 calories a day, that's 10,000 calories. Even the 'big mac' burgers at mcdonalds, the biggest items on the menu, are only about 500. Only way you'd expect to gain weight in a day is eating contest/all you can eat buffets, etc. The 'Supersize' meal is just 1,500...

DailyPoutine, it sounds like you are doing things the way I did when I first started working on, and no, it was not good, it was the wrong way.

I lost weight in both muscle and fat and my lowest was 132lbs at 5'9''.

I did extremely high amounts of cardio and only used bags to lift weights and did floor ab exercises. I saw mild gains in ab muscle and biceps, but that was it. VERY mild.

I suggest investing in actual weights. The exercises you are doing now sound improper and unbalanced. Water gallons may feel like a heavy weight to you but trust me it's not - the bags i was doing bicep curls with weighed about the same as a 1kg dumbbell as soon as I first used one.

Also, you've got to change your diet. You got be be eating more food than your body needs, but it has to be healthy food. You will gain weight in both muscle and fat but so long as you are working the muscles properly, you will mostly gain muscle.

Unfortunately this is another trap I feel into. I started lifting with actual weights and training every part of the body, but ate too unhealthy and gained weight in fat far too quickly. This is called 'dirty bulking' and it's a bad idea.

The third trap was not exercising every body part. I didn't care about triceps for a good while. DO NOT ever avoid training certain muscles like legs and triceps (which is the muscles young guys our age are the most okay with ignoring).

Anyway, it's been one year since I started and I've been doing things 'properly' since August. It was then that I saw the fastest gains I've ever had in a very short amount of time. I'm now 165lbs...