Skinny man wants to gain weight!

Well, I am 27 years old, 5'4, 110 lbs. I would like to add 10-15 lbs of muscle weight on. I know I have a pretty fast digestive system, not everything gets fully broken down and absorbed..I don't think I need to go into details on how I came to that conclusion. Genetically, my dad is 62 and weighs about 120 lbs. Are there any supliments that you all would recomend to add into my training routine to help me put on some lbs?

 

Simply put you need to ingest more calories in order to pack on some pounds. Ideally you should be getting these extra calories from food but it wouldn't hurt to supplement with a meal replacement shake or protein shake if you're having trouble eating.

When I bulked a couple of years ago, I basically ate every 2 hours no matter what. I even set my alarm in the middle of the night so I could get up and drink some whey with milk. Combined with proper training and rest I bulked up to around 205-210 lbs. at 5'7" tall and it was a pretty clean bulk.

In terms of food choices I tried to stick with unprocessed foods but I wasn't superstrict which is something I could get away with. I mostly ate stuff like beef, chicken, eggs, cheese, whole wheat breads, whole wheat pasta, almond butter, peanut butter, cream cheese (on whole wheat bagels) and milk!

 

I was in a similar situation, your a hard gainer like myself.

Im 5'11 and weight 130, i got on a good diet an now work out alot and gained 10 pounds on muscle in about 2 months, not too bad.

What i did was just buy protein shake, an consistently had those twice a day. Combined with eating more, you need to eat things with alot of protein.

Ppl will reccomend 1 gram per how much u weigh, some reccommend more. Right now my current problem is that i think ive peaked. Im @ 140 now for over 3 weeks, cant seem to get passed that. Im currently trying to figure out a way, by adding just more protein to my diet, though i cant complain with 10 pounds of muscle, the body looks good, im nice an ripped.

Damn 5'7 @ 200 pounds, you must of been an animal, freaking wolverine style lol.

My goal is to hit 160, i think when i do that, my body would look like GSP...or atleast im hoping it will lol.

 

No, you haven't peaked. I promise. Not even close.

 

have u looked into digestive enzymes to help with that?

http://www.vitacost.com/SourceNaturalsDailyEssentialEnzymes

 

and i thought i was small being 5'5 170 pounds
also another thing you have to remember about fighters weights is that MOST cut like around up2 20pounds before the weighins
like lil matt hughs walks around at like 190pounds apparently and iv heard of baroni walking around at 220 in the past but is walking around about just under 200 now
and he has to cut down for a WW
and as for suppliments friend of put on about 55pounds in a matter of about 3months? that being said about2 hours at the gym 5-6 days a week but was in good shape before doing this so id recommend getting your body to its natural peak before using any hardkore supliments and what not the one my friend used was the REDBACK range of supliments which he just brought over the internet.

good luck

 

You have new information? Please share. Thanks in advance.

 

For gaining weight, you have to eat more. This means getting plenty of protein, and calories. Whether you eat a chicken sandwich or a supreme pizza equates to exactly the same amount of fat gain. "Eat more" is then viable advice.

 

On the contrary. It's not my opinion. It's a fact. Being a fact, it can be proven.

And who said anythingthing about living off junkfood? how do we categorize junkfood anyway? Are there only two types of food (good and bad)? How is the distinction made?

 

junk food = anything that is not a complete whole food source.

simple.


And Aaron, you're arguing with the wrong cat.

 

Are you lifting weights? That alone will put on muscle and weight if you're lifting consistently.

 

You're joking about this definition right?

I'll take my chances.

 

Not alone it won't.

 

Here's a very simplistic view from Lyle Mcdonals'd book:

" So is a calorie a calorie? Yes and no. Based on the data, my general feeling is this:

1. A sufficient protein intake will always beat out an insufficient protein intake, no matter what you do. Since all of the diets described in this book are based around sufficient protein, this is a non-issue.

2. Assuming caloric intake can be controlled (and protein is adequate of course), shuffling of carbs and fats tends to have a minor, approaching negligble effect.

3. There might be exceptions at the extremes (folks going to single digit bodyfat or extreme obesity) but that doesn't apply to the majority of folks.

In this respect, given adequate protein, it seems to matter very little what diet is chosen. From a weight or bodyfat standpoint, high carb should be as good as low-carb. Right? Well, no. The problem is that there's a HUGE assumption built into statement #2 above: that calories can be controlled under a given set of conditions. As has been found repeatedly in the real-world, this simply isn't a safe assumption.

Put a little bit differently, it might very well be possible to lose all the weight/fat you wanted on a calorie controlled junk-food diet with some high quality protein source. The problem that would probably arise is that most people wouldn't be able to control their hunger or appetite on such a diet and they'd probably end up eating more in the long run. In eating more, they'd either lose less weight/fat or even gain it. Even if a given dietary approach appears optimal for some reason, if you can't control your caloric intake, and end up eating more because of it, it won't produce results."

 

1) Never said that.
2) Never said that either.

We're talking about fat gain, as per the question stated.