The Best Foods
To Gain Weight Fast!
You need to eat the right foods to gain weight quickly. This
is a hard and true fact! Many people neglect their muscle
building diets while they toil away experimenting with the
latest and greatest bodybuilding training routines only to
discover that they have little muscle gain to show for it.
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The reality of gaining weight or muscle mass, is that
success lies in the numbers. The difference between someone who
gains weight and muscle mass quickly and someone who doesn't is
usually just hidden in the details. In this case, the
difference in the amount of calories you consume v.s. the
amount of calories you expend on a daily basis.
In order to gain weight, you need to consume (eat) more
calories than you expend (burn) most of the time. This results
in a surplus of energy or calories.
Your body has no choice but to do something with the excess
energy. In order to deal with the energy surplus, your body
will either store the excess energy as fat or use it to build
more lean muscle mass.
Eating the right foods to gain
weight can help you immensely!
If you grasp a basic understanding of the nutrients required
to fuel muscle growth, it will become obvious how you need to
eat if you want to gain weight and muscle mass at the same
time.
A word of warning...
While it is certainly possible to gain weight and muscle
mass at the same time without also gaining an appreciable
amount of body fat, it is not possible to gain weight without
also gaining a bit of fat. Anytime you increase your caloric
intake, you run the risk of putting on some unwanted fat.
This is why bodybuilders plan their nutrition and training
schedules in "bulking" and "cutting" cycles. They know their
going to gain a bit of fat when they up their calorie intake,
that's just how it works! But they have learned to offset the
fat gain by moving into a training and nutrition cycle that
allows them to shed all of the new fat, but retain most of the
new muscle mass.
The thing to keep in mind here is not to go crazy with the
excess calories. Make adjustments gradually over a 1 - 2 week
period, and analyze the results. If you're not gaining weight,
increase your calories somewhere in the 250 - 500 calorie a day
range. If you're gaining weight, but also too much fat, simply
decrease your calories by 250 -500.
Alright, no need to beat a dead horse here, I just wanted to
be honest with you and let you know that anytime you increase
your calorie intake to gain weight, you will also gain a bit of
fat. So it's a good idea to plan your more aggressive weight
gain / muscle gain cycles for the winter months, so that you
have a bit of time to shed the excess fat before you hit the
beach!
If you're looking to gain weight as fast as possible, you
need to be eating a healthy does of the right foods at the
right times. Below is a short list of some of my favorite foods
to gain weight.
The Best Foods To Gain Weight
Fast...
In order to gain muscle mass, it's important to eat
enough muscle building protein.
Here are my personal favorites when it comes to high
quality lean protein:
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast
- Salmon
- Tuna
- Ground Turkey Breast
- Pork Tenderloin
- Lean Cuts of Beef (eye round, sirloin tip side steak,
top round are great choices here)
- High Quality Whey Protein Supplements / Powders
Here are my favorite carbohydrate choices for weight
and muscle gain:
- Oatmeal (flavored or plain)
- Whole Wheat - Whole Grain Bread
- Whole Wheat Pasta
- Potato
- Yams
- Fruit
- Ego Blueberry Waffles (Not the best, but I love
them!)
If you want to gain weight, you need to increase the amount
of calories that you're currently eating. This is usually
easier said than done! If you're having a hard time eating more
food, a great way to add extra calories to your diet without
causing you to feel bloated all of the time is by adding in
some heart healthy fats.
You'll probably notice that many of the sources of heart
healthy omega-3 fatty acids also contain a decent amount of
high quality muscle building protein!
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