How to Gain Weight

You may think this is a bit of a strange topic to be writing an article on. I mean isn’t everyone trying to lose weight? Sure, all the press talk about is how the world is getting fatter and fatter, but there are a multitude of people putting their hands up and saying - give your fat to me!

Who would want to gain weight?

Just like a fat person looks at himself in the mirror and sees himself as fat, and ugly - a skinny person does exactly the same. He stands at home in his mirror and all he sees is his light frame poking through his skin due to lack of fat/muscle.

‘If only I could gain weight‘

Everyone tells you that they wish they could have your body, or that they wish they could eat as much as you do and not put on weight, but you wish you didn’t. You wish it wasn’t so hard to gain weight - all you want is another 5-10pounds.

How do you gain weight?

The Right Diet

As a person that finds it hard to gain weight, I have to eat more that the regular person to gain weight. But does this mean that I can eat anything - junk food, high sugar, high carbs? No I am talking about a diet consisting of plain natural-healthy food full of calories, proteins, and essential fats.

The first thing you want to do is to get a solid eating plan in place before you look at anything else, and this plan will vary depending on your age, height, sex, weight, and lifestyle. This is why it important to calculate your calorie intake against your specifics.

The Right Training Program

The first thing to do when deciding to start training is to make a good training plan. To gain weight and build muscle the usual routine is 1 day on and 1 day off. So 3 days of gym and two days off to rest your muscles and allow them to rebuild.

There is barely any cardio in the muscle building routine. Usually just 5 minutes warm up on a treadmill then straight onto the weights. The usual gym sessions lasts for about 45minutes. But if you work yourself hard for 30 minutes and reach your limit each training day you will see a huge improvement when it is run in conjunction to the right diet.