Stop Looking So Scrawny With These Weight Gain Tips
But if you are scrawnier than you want to be, you'll need these weight gain tips to help you pack on more muscle.
Chow Down! Since 80% of your body composition is the result of your diet, this is the most important factor you will want to change in order to gain weight.
In short, you want to eat as much as possible! Most days, you should aim to overeat primarily meat to get plenty of fat and protein into your body to go to work building lean muscle mass.
To do this, you'll want to eat lots of meat and eggs, possibly even a dozen per day.
On the days where you weight train, you will want to binge on carbs afterward.
Starches such as potatoes and squashes are best, but don't feel bad if you eat some pizza, cookies, ice cream, etc.
In short, this is the time to eat junk food if you really want to! Here's a list of the types of food you will want to stock up on at the grocery store:
- Beef, pork
- Chicken, turkey
- Fish
- Roots and tubers: potatoes, sweet potatoes
- Eggs, milk, butter, yogurt
- Rice
- Beans
The best kind are full-body compound movements utilizing barbells.
These are the types of exercises that will boost anabolic hormones such as HGH to literally transform your body into a muscle-building machine.
The types of exercises you should focus on include:
- Overhead presses
- Bench presses
- Squats
- Deadlifts
- Pull ups
- Dips
- Cleans
- Inverted Rows
- Planks
For maximum strength gains, aim to do five sets of five reps for the weightlifting exercises and three sets of reps to fatigue for the bodyweight exercises.
By overeating on calorically dense foods and exercising using movements to gain muscle rather than fat, you will be able to quickly get rid of the scrawny look with these weight gain tips.