Blogging About The Truth To Gain Weight & Build Muscle Mass!

The obvious answer is: Protein. Red meat, fish, chicken, eggs, even nuts and others help you in the journey towards muscle mass. But there are other foods that work indirectly to help you gain muscle. These foods include leafy green vegetables. By eating these, you will clean out your system and allow for cell repair to happen much faster than with protein alone.

If you have a problem with over eating, here’s a easy tip: eat a handful of peanuts or your favorite nuts 20 minutes before a meal. The oils in the nuts will go to your stomach and make your brain release the chemicals that tell you that you are full. It takes 20 minutes after beginning to eat something, that your brain alerts you that you’re full. But because you can easily eat 2000 calories in under 20 minutes, that 20 minutes is too much time and you would have already over eaten. Follow these tips and you’re sure to reduce fat, repair over worked and stressed cells, and not over eat. It’s simple tips like this that allow phenomenal muscle to grow.

There’s a much seen BowFlex commercial that poses the question at the beginning “Does size matter?”, in regards to muscular development. This is the exact question that just about every hardgainer or naturally skinny bodybuilder loudly answer “Yes!”. It almost seems like no matter what these individuals try they just can’t seem to build muscle mass naturally and gain weight fast.

However, more than likely the problem lies in two things: they are using the wrong workout routine and are not eating correctly or enough. 99 percent of all progress in “bulking up” comes down to one of these two factors. Many are unknowingly performing routines that are truly designed to build strength and power but are pawned off as “mass building”, when in fact it isn’t. Or, because of the whole carb scare or fast food phobia, you may not be giving your body the amount of calories it needs to get big.

I was sitting here watching the latest information for this week’s upcoming NFL games and the analyzers were discussing at how a certain line position if the players in those spots were weighing “only” 254 pounds that they were not going to be effective. That’s very true, but it shouldn’t be something you measure yourself against when trying to build muscle mass and gain weight fast.

Keep in mind that for someone trying to gain pure muscle and not a ton of body fat to accompany it you’ll only be able to gain so much per month and per year. Don’t think that you can gain 20-30 pounds of muscle mass in a matter of 2-3 months. That is not humanly possible for 99 percent of the population, especially if you are natural. Eat to gain weight and workout to build muscle, but don’t think that you also have to be weighing 250 plus pounds to look outstanding.

Drink water! That’s what you see all over the place when giving recommendations for eating to gain weight and building muscle. But, is it necessary? You’ll find out in this article from one of the most well known nutritional experts in the bodybuilding world that some of its value may be a little exaggerated:

Can Water Help You Build More Muscle?

One of my favorite all time cartoons, Popeye, was known far and wide for his muscle building and weight gaining powers from simply eating a can of spinach. What can you learn about spinach? Should you worry about adding it to your bodybuilding arsenal?

Was Popeye Right About Building Muscle?