By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2009-01-17 07:16:47 | Word Count: 764
To add those extra lbs to your body is much harder than it may appear. Surprisingly, still throughout your vacations you don’t seem to build up enough weight that may be visible, and if you build up some lbs, its temporary and not the muscle weight that is generally evident. But at that time you need to focus on gaining weight and just don’t sit at leisure doing nothing.
If you are hale and hearty person, gaining some lbs is a simple task for you. This might appear an easy task but if you would really put on 20lbs within a month it would be very hard for you to move around easily as your body is not used to that much weight further more you would appear just out of shape.
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To put on weight quickly, for eg. 4-8lbs in a month you need to be extremely careful with your calorie intake. You have to maintain a accurate daily track of what you eat. One thing to be kept in mind is you don’t have to build up fats but the weight that makes you look healthier. For this, you will must avoid unhealthy food like chips, chocolates and candies as all this refrain from your desired results. Foods from fast food restaurants should also be abstained. Oily foods like red meat, pork and beef will only add up bad fat which will be tough to remove later on….
Finally you must eat your meals which include correct amount of nutrients like proteins, minerals, carbohydrates and fats. For this you must consume a range of food with proper mixture of all the nutrients. Unhealthy food and fast food do contain these nutrients, in little quantities and these are not enough. So you must eat sensibly and food which contain these nutrients abundantly like brown rice, oatmeal, nuts, peanut butter, seeds, fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, chicken fish, etc. This type of food will actually assist you to put on weight.
Having a proper mixture of food is not enough, you need to eat fair meals at least 5-6 times a day. This will help you to get your goal in a small period. To cover 5-6 balanced meals, you will must eat every 3 hours and this is really difficult for some people as they are not used to consuming so much. In such conditions you can opt for meal substitute powder, blend it with water, juice or milk and just drink it. This will supplement the mineral requirement in your body and add up some lbs.
Correcting your consuming patterns along with some workout gives you the needed outcome in a short time. But the major tribute to put on weight goes to the efforts you put in. The weighty and full your plate is, the better is the amount of pounds added to your body. But you should eat several times a day. Workout must be such that it puts on weight to your body and assists building muscles, rapidly and effectively.
Eating:
Consuming all three meals whole heartedly and in between eating upon a heavy snack, will help you to achieve your goal. This will evidently compel your body to build those additional lbs and to get the muscle weight you must undergo some sort of workout.
Proteins are the building blocks of our body. Besides fats and carbohydrates, protein should be the major ingredient of your meals.
For example:
Breakfast: Milk and Eggs.
Lunch: Meat sandwich roast beef, turkey, etc
Dinner: Chicken or Steak.
You can further garnish your platter by adding your preferred side dishes like hash browns and toast for breakfast, rice or pasta for dinner, and so forth. Confirm that your meals are weighty and fill you up. Further, a protein shake or a protein intake will assist you generously to add those few pounds.
Training:
To get a proper weight gain training you need to have a weight gaining handbook handy that explains you the workouts that aid you to put on weight. Initially, you should concentrate on the squats and deadlift as you want to add up muscle to your body. These types of exercises help you to gain weight and appear big as compared to any other workouts.
Thus, concentrating on your heavy eating habits with heavy and thorough exercises will assist you to gain a good quantity of weight within a short period.
