Are you a naturally thin person who frowns with utter frustration when you hear people talking about losing weight? Why do these people want to lose weight when you have a hard time putting more meat on your skinny body frame?

I know how frustrated you are because over the years, I have had many clients who were in the same condition as you. In gym speak, you are known as a hardgainer.

There are several reasons why are underweight. Some people are naturally skinny because of their exceptionally high metabolic rate while others may have certain medical or health conditions. If you are middle-aged or even older, you may have lost some sense of smell and taste and that may have caused you to lose some appetite thus creating your underweight condition.

Many underweight people think that they are eating a lot and yet they can’t increase their weight. Is that true? For you to find out, get yourself a calorie counter in order to calculate the amount of calories you are eating each day and also to determine how many calories you will need to eat to gain more weight.

As your objective is to increase your consumption of calories; it does not matter whether you eat more meals or increase the size of your meals. This is where you can have your up-size meals and eat it without guilt. For those of you who have problem taking in more foods, then you can try having several more meals and snacks.

However, please do not stuff yourself with too much unhealthy fatty food. You want to increase your weight healthily and do not want to get into other health problems which fat drenched foods may give you and therefore your meals should be a balanced well balanced mix of protein, carbs and good fats.

When you are in the process of gaining weight, you should try to gain muscle weight as well so that some of the weight that you will gain will be healthy lean muscle weight. So go ahead and join a gym. Do hire a personal trainer if you can afford it to help you to build muscles because there are many things you need to know and do in order for your muscles to grow quickly and healthily.

If hiring a personal trainer is out of your budget, no worries to that because there are many good bodybuilding programs you can find in the web. The problem is that there are also just as many lousy programs out to get your money. So conduct your research carefully before you get anyone of the programs.

For your muscles to grow quickly, you should consume some protein supplements. Not only will the proteins help your muscle to repair itself and grow, you will also be getting extra protein calories too.

As you continue with your bodybuilding training, you will surely put on weight as your muscle grows. However, in order for your muscle to grow effectively, you will need to know what exercises to do and the correct form of doing the exercises to prevent injuries. So go ahead, start using the tips from this article to help you to increase your weight now.

Author Bio: This article was written by Chris Chew, a professional personal trainer in Singapore. More free articles on his websites at Personal trainer Singapore and get swimmers muscular body now.

Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
Keywords: gain weight, increase weight, personal trainer, muscles