If you have been thin all your life, then you must have wished that you can increase your weight to feel and look better. However, no matter how much food you eat, the weighing scales just refused to budge leaving you very frustrated with your effort. Want to know the reasons why?

Ruling out any other medical condition, this is because your genes are already preprogrammed to drive up your metabolic rate so that you burn up all the calories that you eat very quickly even before they are being stored as fat and muscle. Your body type is known as the ectomorph and in the fitness industry you are known as the hardgainer.

Yes, some of you are even trying to increase your weight by eating fatty foods, sugary foods and high glycemic carbohydrates hoping to gain some body fat so that you can increase your weight. However, to put on weight this way is unhealthy as even if you are able to add on the extra pounds, you are adding body fat which is not pleasing to the eye and is also unhealthy. That is to say if you have succeeded in putting on weight this way which is also quite unlikely as you have probably already found out.

So what is the best way to put on some extra pounds? The fastest and healthiest way is to eat plenty of healthy food and take up a weight training program to gain muscle weight. Since muscle is heavier than your body fat, then your weight gain will be much faster than trying to put on only fat.

Furthermore, with more muscle, you not only look healthy, you will feel great too as your strength improves along with your health. Now when I said weight training, I do not mean that you go to the gym and just follow what other people do there because most of the time, most people in the gym don’t know what they are doing. If they do know what they are doing, then personal trainers will be redundant there which of course, they are still there.

In your case, you will need specific exercises to build muscles all over your body frame and there is no point doing popular and ineffective puny exercises for weight gain like bicep curls and crunches as examples.

So if you can afford it, go hire personal trainers who are experienced and well versed enough to help people put on muscle mass. If not, then source out some programs that will help you to do just that. There are many good muscle building and weight gaining programs that you can buy and download from the internet.

Once you are on a good weight training program, supplement your workouts with whey and casein protein. These are proteins that your muscles need in order for them to grow bigger and stronger as you may not have enough protein from your food.

If you are above 30 years old, you may also wish to supplement with testosterone enhancers. Testosterones are sometimes called male hormones and they are necessary for muscle and strength building.

As we get older, we produce less of these hormones and that is why testosterone enhancement may be necessary. However, I am not asking you to inject steroids or go for testosterone replacement therapy as these may have side effects and need medical supervision. I am talking about non prescription natural herbal pills that can encourage your body to produce more of your own natural testosterone.

So if you want to increase and put on handsome muscular weight quickly, then head the gym with the right workout and supplement and soon, you will pack on pound after pound of solid muscular weight.

Author Bio: Chris Chew is a fitness and health consultant. Read his free articles at How To Increase Your Weight and Gain Muscle Personal Trainers Singapore

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