You don’t weight a lot, you think you eat a lot, and you just can’t seem gain weight.
You’re ready to bulk up, build some muscle, and start feeling better about yourself…but you have no freaking clue what you’re doing.
People probably tell you “must be nice to have a fast metabolism,” but inside you’re wishing that you could eat and actually get bigger!
Luckily, you’ve found this site, and I’m here to help.
I used to be skinny too.
I spent close to 15 years struggling to get bigger, and only in the past few years have I finally cracked the code.
I still am working on getting bigger and stronger, but I want to help you, because I know EXACTLY where you are right now.
I’ve had the same challenges, felt the same way (“I must have bad genetics and just can’t get bigger”) and found a path through the chaos and misinformation
In this article, we’re going to hammer home the 13 biggest points to help you get bigger and stronger.
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Bulk like the Hulk with our rules for getting bigger
1) Eat a lot:
This sounds much easier than it really is, but it’s the truth.
If you’re not getting bigger, you’re not eating enough.
Do NOT overthink this. When I first started exercising and trying to get bigger,
the personal trainer in my gym had me DOUBLE the amount of food I was eating.
I thought he was crazy…until I did it and it worked. I had tried unsuccessfully to get bigger prior to that,
it was simply because I wasn’t eating enough food. You might eat 3 MONSTER meals, 6 big meals, or any combination of whatever works for your schedule.
This is going to be difficult for a while, because your body isn’t used to eating this much food,
which means you’ll have to force yourself to eat even when you’re not hungry.
500 extra calories a day = 1 extra pound gained per week. Whatever you’re eating now, add an additional 500-1000 calories (spread throughout the day).
Track your calories, get a caloric average for each day (rest day, training day, etc) and then eat MORE than that.
if you are not getting bigger, then you need to eat more than that.
2) Eat a lot of good things:
You need to eat a ridiculous amount of calories if you want to gain weight
you want to make sure most of those calories are GOOD calories.
You could easily get 3500 calories eating Taco Bell and Twinkies, and drinking Mountain Dew,
your body will hate you, you won’t put on muscle, and that’s not a good long term solution (goodbye health).
If you want to build muscle, you want to eat healthy calories
good protein, good carbs, healthy fats, and plenty of vegetables to help provide nutrients and move all that food through your internal plumbing
3) Protein:
building block for your muscles. Chicken, fish, meat, eggs, milk, almonds. Aim for .
8-1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight.
You don’t need to overdo it with 300+ grams of protein like you’ll read in fitness magazines.
they say that so you buy their protein powders and go through it quickly.
4) Carbs are your friend when you need to put on weight:
rice, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, etc. will help you put on weight. You can also eat a lot of it to get your calorie goals.
You can get away with eating less healthy things like bread, pasta, and even snack food ON OCCASION, but try to avoid those things most days.
as previously stated, every meal should have vegetables when possible so your body can properly manage all those calories as they move through your body.
5) Keep track of everything you eat – Track every one of your meals. Every calorie.
The only way to know if you’re eating enough calories, enough protein, and enough carbs is if you track your calories and progress and then make adjustments.
Once you start to get a good feel for how many calories you eat each day, try to eat the same meals to keep it easy.
If the scale is moving up, keep doing what you’re doing. If the scale isn’t moving. EAT MORE.
If you’re ever unsure if you’ve eaten enough that day, eat more.
You can always scale back the calories later if needed.
YOU WILL NOT GET TOO BULKY. Trust me. That should not even be a concern in your mind. Remove “I don’t want to get too bulky” from your vocabulary.
if you’re not also training properly, you’ll just be getting fat, and not building muscle!
That’s where training comes in!
Concentrate on complex, compound exercises that recruit as many muscles as possible:
bench press
overhead press
squats
deadlifts
pull ups
chin ups
dips
Do these exercises, and concentrate on getting as strong as possible with each of them.
Not sure where to start or what to do? We’ve put together an assessment quiz,
as well as numerous progressive workouts – for both the gym or home – in our comprehensive Nerd Fitness Academy.
Don’t worry about isolation exercises like triceps extensions, shoulder shrugs, bicep curls or crunches right now.
All of the compound exercises listed here use every muscle in your body, and when you overload your body with calories and protein, those muscles will grow.
I promise you – if you get strong with those exercises above, and eat enough, you will get bigger.
Check out our Beginner’s Guide to the Gym article for some basic strategies and workouts.
7) Appearance is a consequence of fitness – This is the mantra of the actors of who trained for the movie 300 – would you be okay looking like a Spartan?
Concentrate on being really strong and lifting heavy weights, and your body will follow suit.
It doesn’t matter if you can only bench press 10 lb dumbbells right now and can’t do a single pull-up.
Wherever you’re starting out, concentrate on being stronger each and every time you exercise.
Push yourself, get stronger, lift more, and before you know it you’ll be ripped.
Just like tracking your eating is important, so is tracking your workouts! Write down how you train, so that way you know exactly how to get stronger next time.
I REPEAT: If you eat enough calories, and focus on getting stronger, the result will be that you get big.
8) When exercising, keep your rest between sets to a minute or two, and don’t do more than 12 reps in a set –
Keep your range of reps between 6 and 12, and try to keep the time you rest between sets to a minute or two.
Example: incline dumbbell chest press – 12 reps of 50 lbs, wait a minute, 10 reps of 55lbs, wait a minute, 8 reps of 60 lbs.
9) Let your muscles rest – Never exercise the same muscle two days in a row. Muscles are made in the kitchen, not in the gym.
When you train, you are breaking down your muscles.
Then, during the next 48 hours, as you are eating a caloric surplus and recovering, your muscles get rebuilt bigger and stronger.
For this reason, never exercise the same muscle before it’s ready.
10) Sleep – You need to be getting at least 7 hours of sleep, but 8-9 hours of sleep every night for maximum gains.
Your body is doing nothing but lying there and building muscle while you’re sleeping.
If you are only getting 6 hours or less, you’re not going to get all the benefits of your exercising and diet.
I know it’s tough, but those 3AM raids in WoW or matches in Overwatch will need to wait – you can come back to them after you get big and strong.
11) Cardio is your enemy – Running long distances isn’t going to help you.
If you’re going to run, do quick sprints or run up a hill.
If you love to run, that’s fine, but understand you’ll need to eat even more calories and the running is actively working.
against your muscles that want to get bigger. Keep your distance cardio to a minimum if you want to put on some pounds.
12) Make it part of your routine – It’s okay to skip a workout here.
it’s not okay for you to skip a meal if you’re serious about weight gain.
You need to be always eating. It sucks, it’s practically a full time job, but it’s what you have to do. Eat.
If you’re eating all the time, and you still aren’t getting bigger,
then you are either tracking your calories incorrectly or you are not eating what you tell yourself that you’re eating.
Go back to basics, and track your calories again. Check serving sizes, count portions, and so on.
Are you actually skipping lunch a few times a week when work gets busy, or skipping breakfast on the weekends when you sleep in?
13) Realize you will put on some fat, and that’s okay – with all of this eating, you are going to be putting on some fat along with your muscle. That’s okay!
Trying to lose fat (when you’re skinny) and put on muscle at the same time usually results in neither been done well.
Figure out what your goal weight is, and then add another 5-10 lbs on top of it.
Once you get to that weight, cut back on the calories in your diet, do more sprints, and keep exercising:
you’ll shed the fat quickly and be left with a killer figure. Eat all the vegetables you want, but cut back on breads, pasta, rice, and oatme
can easily help you reach your caloric goals too.
If you’re not sure specifically what you should be eating for protein, carbs, and fats,
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