Re: Need Help Gaining Weight

Hey guys,

Check out this YouTube message I got a little while ago:

Subject: Gaining Weight

Hey I have watched a couple of your videos and have a few questions. I have an incredibly hard time gaining weight..I'm almost 6'4 and 122 pounds (18 years old) so I'm very skinny for my height. I've been eating 3000-3500 calories daily, including 2 protein/gainer shakes in between meals, lifting weights every other day, and taking supplements.

After gaining about 7 pounds in a little over a month (yeah I was at 115), I haven't been able to gain any more weight at all. What can I do now?

Should I be eating all that protein you suggested each meal even though i'm taking in 100g/protein from the shakes?

All that I have become recently is all muscly but still kind of just skinny so I have been eating a decent portion of good fats along with a lot of protein. Any advise would be great, I don't know what I'm doing wrong?

Thx

Pakmule….

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Do you have a burning question or even a few BURNING questions like this that you feel is holding you back from see results you want?

If you do, then you NEED to read today’s blog post to see how you can get ALL of your BURNING questions answered by me 1 on 1.

But first things first back to the message I got from one of my YouTube subscribers (PakMule…) we’ll call him Pakmule because he didn’t leave his name in the message.

The first thing I should say is that based on what Pakmule told me I won’t be able to pin-point the problem unless I was able to ask him some specific questions like what his meals consist of, how often did he eat each day, how is he working out, etc.

But based on what he told me I can give him some tips that should help him build more muscle and gain more weight.

So PakMule here are some tips to get you out of your rut and seeing results fairly quickly.

Gain Weight Tip #1 - You Need to Consume MORE Calories Each Day

Yes, you’re right, being 6’ 4 and 122 lbs is incredibly light for your height which leads me to think that you have an incredibly fast metabolism. And the best way to defeat your fast metabolism is through your diet.

It sounds like you already know this and you’re on the right track by consuming those 3000 – 3500 calories each day. The fact that you gained 7 pounds and then stopped indicates that your body has hit a plateau. Remember, in order to gain weight and build muscle you have to consume MORE calories than your body burns each day.

When you plateau it simply means that you’ve built up the MAXIMUM amount of muscle that your diet will allow. Think of it this way: when your body was at 115lbs it burned 2000 calories in order to get through each day. So in order to gain muscle you need to consume above and beyond those 2000 calories if you want to build muscle.

So let’s say after a few weeks you consumed an extra 1,000 calories per day by consuming a total of 3,000 calories each day you built 7 lbs of muscle. Well guess what, here’s something that most guys don’t realize. Your muscles burn energy. Your muscles AREN’T like fat that just sits there. Your muscles are actually living tissue that needs energy (calories) to sustain itself.

Just to show you how this all works, lets say 1 lb of muscle burns 50 calories to sustain itself. So for every pound of muscle you gain your body burns an extra 50 calories each day to sustain itself and also to sustain your new muscle gains.

As you could imagine after you’ve gained a certain amount of muscle, those extra 1,000 calories you were consuming before aren’t EXTRA anymore. Your body now NEEDS those EXTRA 1,000 calories to SUSTAIN itself and your new muscle gains.

And once this happens (your body catches up to your diet) if you want to build muscle after this point you’re going to have to consume above and beyond those 3,000 calories that your body is currently burning each day.

So what I recommend you do is to begin consuming 3500 – 4000 calories each day (essentially increase your daily caloric intake by 500 calories) until you start seeing extra muscle growth and you bust out of that plateau. If you don’t see any results after 10 – 14 days then increase your intake again by another 500 calories until you start to see new muscle growth.

Gain Weight Tip #2 - Your Calories Should Come From The Right Sources

I just wanted to expand on nutrition a little bit more because I know how important it is and how many guys (including myself when I started out) struggle with this.

I’m glad to see that you already know that in order to gain weight you have to increase your daily caloric intake (consume more calories each day). But it also depends on where those extra calories are coming from.

Let’s say for example all of your calories came from fast acting carbs and fats (like chips, soda and junk food) then instead of building muscle you’ll be gaining mostly if not all fat.

But if the majority of your calories are from lean meats and whole grains like (lean chicken breast and whole wheat bread) then the majority of your gains will be muscle gains.

I’m not sure what your diet consists of, I’d need to talk with you 1-on-1 and ask you a few specific questions, just know that it does depend on WHERE these calories come from as well. 3,000 calories from chips and soda is WAYYYY different from 3,000 calories from sources like chicken breast and whole wheat bread.

In addition to that I recommend you use the 30 / 40 / 30 nutrient ratio. I know it may sound a little complicated but it simply means that 30 % of your total daily calories should come from protein. 40% from carbs and 30% should come from “good” fats.

If you have a hard time figuring this out, check out my Weight Gain Calculator and it’ll do all this stuff for you.

Click here to check out my Weight Gain Calculator in action and why so many people are dying to get their hands on it.

(I’m also giving away Free access to my Weight Gain Calculator for anyone who gets my Free DVD Casestudy and Step By Step Guide)

Gain Weight Tip #3 - You Need to Increase The Intensity Of Your Workouts

Ok, next I want to hit on your workout routine. Just like how you need to increase your calories after a certain point. You also need to increase something with your workouts as well. And it’s your INTENSITY.

Think of it this way. When you first start working out, you’re wearing and tearing your muscle fibers apart. And the way your body responds and adapts to this is by getting bigger and stronger so that the next time you do that workout again it doesn’t damage it as much.

After a while your body will adapt to your workout to the point where it feels it doesn’t have to build anymore new muscle to deal with your workout.

Here’s an analogy if it helps: Just imagine every winter a tornado rolled into your neighborhood and damaged your roof. It was to the point where you could see the clouds just by looking up in your living room.

So what are you going to do? Of course, you’re going to rebuild your roof. But this time you’re going to build it, thicker, stronger and sturdier than before so the next time that tornado comes it doesn’t do so much damage because you don’t want to go through all the hassle of repairing next time. Not to mention you’re pretty vulnerable to the elements when you don’t have a roof over your head.

So fast forward to next winter. The tornado touches down again, but this time since you made your roof stronger from the last time, it doesn’t do as much damage as before. So you patch up your roof and make it just a little bit stronger this time so the next time that tornado comes around, your roof could withstand it and you don’t have to invest the time, money and energy it takes to repair it again.

So fast forward to the next winter season. And as expected the tornado touches down again but this time, your roof was strong enough to withstand it with barely a few scratches. Now at this point are you going to fork over more money, invest more time and energy making that roof stronger when it’s proven to be able to withstand the tornado, of course not. Because that’ll be too much unnecessary work.

Well the same goes for your muscles. Once it has adapted to the point where your workout doesn’t damage it that much, it WILL NOT build more muscle. From your body’s perspective, THERE’S NO REASON TO because at this point it’s just extra unnecessary work.

So here’s what I recommend. You have to INCREASE the intensity of your workouts.

If you’ve gotten to the point where your workouts are becoming less challenging then you NEED to increase the intensity of your workouts.

Here’s a quick list of a few things you can do to increase the intensity of your workouts (I also reveal more effective ways to increase intensity in my Free DVD Casestudy that I’m about to release):

• Decreasing the amount of time it takes to finish your workout (instead of 50 minutes, do it in 40 minutes)
• Increasing the amount of reps for each exercise in the same time or less than you normally do
• Decrease your rest time in between sets (instead of taking a 2 minute rest take a 1 min. rest)
Hope these tips help (Pakmul),

Let me know if you have any further questions

Richard

And if you’re going through the same thing as Pakmul then you can also use these tips to get the results you’re looking for.

Now remember at the beginning of the blog post I mentioned how you can get me to answer ALL of your BURNING questions just like these 1 on 1.

Well, if you’re interested then read further…

Now, as you could imagine with 655 YouTube subscribers and 2139 email subscribers to date I get A LOT of YouTube messages and Emails asking me TONS of questions just like these. Which made me realize that there’s tons of guys just like yourself and just like Pakmul that have something holding them back.

So whether it’s:

• Not knowing what foods you should be eating
• How to see results after your body seems to hit a plateau.
• What workouts you should be doing
• What supplements you should be taking
• When should you do cardio
• Should you even be doing cardio to help reach your goals
• Or anything else for that matter

Here’s what I’m going to do for you….

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This is also where you can ask me 1-on-1 whatever BURNING questions you have. Which means no more, searching for hours on the internet or buying tons of magazines or reading a thousand websites and articles or checking out hundreds of YouTube videos just to get your questions answered.

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Which is why I have to limit the number of these coaching sessions I do.

Since this is the first time I’m doing anything like this, I’m limiting it to only 10 coaching sessions to see how everything goes.

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Take care,

Richard Knight
Richard [at] buildmusclechallenge.com

Hardgainer Tip: Secret Weapon to Fast Weight Gain!

Wasssup,

I was going through all the feedback I've been getting from my blog and I came across an interesting trend amongst the obstacles and challenges that's holding alot of guys especially people like me (hardgainers) back from gaining weight and building muscle.

And it seems as though the #1 obstacle holding hardgainers back is a good knowledge of the basics.
Alot of guys are lacking the fundamental principals they ought to know if they want to build muscle consistently and with less effort.

I'm still compiling my hardgainers guide which will reveal all of this to you. It's designed to give you the basic knowledge you NEED to know if you want to see consistent muscle gains. Because if you're a hardgainer and you're trying to build muscle fast than you're going to have to do things a bit different from everyone else and if you don't know what those key things are than you'll be spinning your wheels, and wasting a whole lot of effort fro minimal gains.

So today I wanted to share with you the easiest way to gain weight fast.

But before I do, I have to take a step back and go over a fundamental principle for gaining weight and building muscle. In order to gain weight you have to consume an EXCESS amount of calories.

So what do I mean by excess?

You have to consume more calories than your body burns to get get through each day. For example, if your body burns 2,000 calories each day you NEED to consume MORE THAN 2,000 calories to gain weight and build muscle.

After saying that, it's important to point out that you should be getting most of your calories from 1. protein, 2. good carbs, and 3. good fats.

I'm not going to dive in too deep into each of these right now. Just keep in mind that your calories should come from "good" whole food sources rather than junk food. Note that 24g of carbs from potato chips is not the same as 24g of carbs from whole wheat bread.

Ok, so here's the EASIEST way to consume MORE good calories each day to gain weight and build muscle.

You ready?

Ok, drum roll...................

1. Start off by drinking 1 glass of milk after every meal
2. Each week drink at least 1 more glass of milk than the previous week until you reach a gallon a day.

That's it.

I don't know if I told you this but low fat milk is my SECRET WEAPON to building muscle. After every meal, I drink a tall glass of low fat milk. Why is this so effective?

Think about it....

1 cup of low fat milk contains:

8g of protein
14g of carbs

Now multiply those numbers by 6 (since I typically eat 6 meals a day), that's:

48g of EXTRA protein / day (just from milk)
84g of EXTRA carbs / day (just from milk)

That 48g of EXTRA protein and those 84g of EXTRA carbs from milk could mean the difference between your body being in a calorie deficit (you lose weight or remain skinny) and your body being in a calorie SURPLUS (building muscle and gaining weight). And all you have to do is drink some milk.

So if you're having trouble adding more protein and more "good" carbs to your diet just use my secret weapon and DRINK SOME MILK (less effort is the name of the game - you don't have to go out and buy all these protein powders and muscle potions just drink some milk).

Hope this helped,

Rich

P.S. - Leave a comment and let me know if this helped you out or not. Also let me know if you have any questions as I'm sure you might after reading this post.

And if you haven't done so, sign up for my free More Muscle Less Effort Hardgainer's guide when it's complete so you can build more muscle with the least amount of effort.

Whoever said milk does a body good And that's on top of my meals which 40g of protein each. So I'll let you do the math increase the amount of cups

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