Convinced you cant gain weight? You are doing the wrong things!
While everyone around you is worried about getting fat, you’re frantic because you need to put on weight. Specifically, you’re involved in a sport like football, baseball, bodybuilding, shot putting, or wrestling. You need the extra weight to block, or hit, or lift, or throw, or pin more effectively. So you’d love to bulk up, but your body just isn’t getting the message!
Keep at your workout for the best weight gains.
Don’t give up! With the right exercises, you’ll not only gain weight; you’ll gain the right kind of weight! Your extra weight will be in the form of the lean muscle mass your sport demands! Suppose you’re a wrestler who wants to move up to the next weight class. You could try to eat your way there, by consuming massive amounts of food. But most of that weight would be fat. Too much fat will drain your energy as much as it drains your opponent’s. What can you do?
Barbell bench presses will add strength and size to your pectorals, triceps, and front delts. Barbell squats will do the same for your legs (especially your thighs). Full squats, in fact, will add weight to your entire lower body, particularly the quads.
To maximize the weight gain from your barbell workouts, do deadlifts. They’re the best way to involve all your back muscles, along with your traps, legs, and buttocks.
Dumbbells are great for building muscle mass weight.
Supplement your barbell workouts with dumbbell exercises. Using them incorporates many of the same motions involved in different sports. Dumbbells force you to use your core muscles to stay balanced, building them up so they also contribute to your weight gain. Lateral lunges, bent over rows, and squat to push presses are all great, especially for wrestlers.
Finally, for the ultimate in strength training and flexibility exercises, and for rapid overall weight gain, invest in some kettlebells. Do passes, circling them around your body while changing hands when they are behind you. You can also swing them in figure 8s between your legs.
Increase the weight of your kettlebells as you become used to handling them. One workout with kettlebells can be as effective as two or three with barbells and dumbbells!
Serious about increasing your body weight?
The main reason people can’t gain weight is because they are doing the wrong type of strength building exercises.
- If you are tired of being skinny no matter what you do…
- Need to rapidly increase your weight for an upcoming sports match…
- Or simply want to gain a few extra pounds of muscle
Then I highly recommend you to pick up a copy of Jason Ferruggia’s strength and muscle weight increasing course found here. I was really stuck at 155 pounds no matter how much I worked out. I though I was doing all the right things, but it turns out I was missing the most key elements for weight gain. After about a month practicing his routine, I was able to put on an extra 10 pounds of muscle weight…which is like the holy grail for me lol. A lot of other people had some really good results…
“I started using Jason’s muscle building secrets shortly after my 41st birthday and am happy to report that I gained 20 pounds of muscle in my first few months, got leaner and increased my bench press by 125 pounds!” – Mark Crook
“Before Jason I spent thousands of dollars working with many so called “experts,” trying to learn how to gain weight but none of them provided me with the results he has. While using his mass gaining system my weight went from 194 to 250, my squat has gone up to 560 pounds, I benched 440 and set the school record in the hang clean at 375 pounds.” – Chris Carey
Jason’s routine is not easy, I’m not going to lie. However, if you are really serious about putting on some extra pounds, this course, in my opinion, is your best route to doing it. Just stick with the routine…it gets a lot easier after a week or two.
If you are interested in trying his program, you can buy it here. It’s worth every penny.