How do I gain weight with a fast metabolism?
Posted on | July 2, 2010 |
I’m in my late teens now and have been trying to gain weight for several years. I’ve tried increasing my intake of healthy foods, but that does nothing. I don’t do cardio or fat-burning workouts, only muscle-building, and I’m about to resort to just eating junk food. What’s a better alternative to bingeing on McDonald’s?
I know it’s not good to be overweight, but there’s also such thing as being underweight. I kind of want to get to that happy medium.
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July 2nd, 2010 @ 5:00 am
First, accept the fact that your genetics are playing a role right now and you will likely develop more mass later in life rather than in your teenage years. Next, develop a plan and stick to it for a long time, knowing your gains may be slower than those of endomorphs and mesomorphs around you. You’re an ectomorph if you didn’t know that already…welcome to the club.
I encourage you to concentrate on full body workouts, and a lot of them. With that, continue eating like a fiend. You say you eat healthy. I am not critiquing your routine but you may not be providing your body enough carbs, fats, and proteins to let it build mass (however slowly it may want to). If you worry about losing a 6-pack…stop. Your goal is to obviously bulk up. Eat as much as you can, workout as often as you can (never working out a muscle group more than once in 4-5 days). Don’t do much cardio as you already know.
Let me tell you something. "Junk food" consists of sugar and fat. You need to be eating man food, 6 times a day. 500-750 calorie meals with a 2:1 carb to protein ratio. Get your fats, get your vitamins, get your nutrients. Also, one of the most important factors to healthy mass gain is sleep. Do you get an honest 8 hours of sleep? Every night, consistently? Always eat a big breakfast. Always eat a big snack before bed (by snack I mean healthy like a protein shake with casein, milk and penut butter sandwich, etc). If you’ve gone 3.5 hours without eating anything your body is breaking itself down for energy.
Best of luck to you and try not to get discouraged. Everyone may tell you this but take it from experience. The routine you get your body used to now will pay dividends in your 20’s. You will gain mass. It just may seem slow right now.
**EDIT**
I did write this more for a boy. Take that into account at your liesure. For a girl, I suggest you concentrate on building up the muscle in your legs (girls have natural genetics for great legs). Do tons of squats, lunges, seated calf raises, standing calf raises, leg press, hip sled, leg curls, deadlifts. Decent weight to make them grow and don’t worry about toning them until you think they’re actually big.
July 2nd, 2010 @ 5:00 am
Why would you want to gain weight?
July 2nd, 2010 @ 5:00 am
it’s not healthy to try and gain weight. don’t do it on purpose, especially if you’re just going to binge on mcdonalds, because your system will get clogged up and you could get severe health problems. if you eat a good amount and a healthy diet you shouldn’t be worried about being underweight.
July 2nd, 2010 @ 5:00 am
just try eating consistently, like snacks/small meals every two hours, especially if you have very fast metabolism like me, eating healthy foods doesnt matter if your always hungry so it wont help you gain weight at all. and load up on your protein and carbs intake if you work out. i put on 45 lbs (90-135) doing jus that in 5 months span .. eating junk food WILL help you gain weight but its gonna be the wrong kind of weight aka fat so stay away from it..goodluck