Weight Gain Tips

Many people seek to gain weight, because doing so improves their power and sports prowess. If you don't get the connection here, think of why boxers and wrestlers are must stay within weight ranges when competing. Or imagine that 300lb football guard landing on top of that 180lb quarterback. Size matters.

Unfortunately, many people fail to understand that weight alone is far less valuable than lean weight. And weight alone can actually cost you, in terms of performance and health.

So the key here is to gain lean weight. Here are some tips for you to do just that:

1. Train hard. Intensity is key. No pain, no gain. Muscles grow only to the extent you challenge them.
    
2. Train smart. See our article on building muscle.
    
3. Get adequate rest. Muscles grow during the resting phase, only. When you have inadequate rest, you get inadequate growth.
    
4. Don't deliberately eat toxins. Eliminate refined "foods" from your diet, and do not drink "soft drinks" (osteoporosis, fat gain, and esophageal cancer in a can) at all.
    
5. Engage in an intelligent program of nutrition. Ignore the fads. Eat more leafy green vegetables, and you automatically increase nutrient density while lowering caloric density. See our many diet articles on this site.
    
6. Engage in an intelligent program of supplementation. At the very least, get  a good meal replacement powder (MRP). Use this for foundational nutrition three times a day (eat 3 small "whole food meals" and three small MRP shakes, and watch your Adonis body emerge). We prefer the Optimum Nutrition MRP shown at the top of our MRP page. Other worthwhile supplements include CLA, HMB, and creatine. Watch those "athletic bars"--most of them are junk-laden calorie binge bars. We have reviewed every bar on the market and found only a few that are good.

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