Help with weight gaining, best answer gets 10!?

If you're skinny, and you always have been, chances are you have a hard time gaining weight if you want to.

You've got a few things that prevent you from gaining weight:

1) A fast metabolism. The only way to get around this burn-everything-you-eat metabolism is to eat more than your system has the capacity to burn.

2) Higher percentage endurance muscle fiber vs. strength muscle fiber. There are two big types of muscle fibers. One is really good at aerobic exercise (if you're me, you have a lot of this). The other is strength fiber. Increasing body mass requires you to avoid endurance training as much as possible, especially during the first three weeks. You must lift weights to increase your proportion of strength muscle fiber. Heavy weights.

3) Your body proportions make some exercises difficult to do, if not impossible, without injuring yourself. The standard overhead barbell press will hurt my back, for example. This is because I have long arms, a short torso, and really long legs. I have to hold the barbell a different way than Ah-nold does. Avoiding injury will help you stay on the weight-gaining bandwagon.

4) A lack of knowledge. Previously, you didn't know what the price really was to gain weight. This instructable should square that away.

Best thing to do is eat SPECIFIC foods that help build muscle, such as: Proteins

Meat, poultry, fish,

eggs, milk, ...

Carbs

Brown rice, oats, whole

grain pasta, quinoa, ...

Veggies

Spinach , broccoli,

tomato, salad, carrot, ...

Fruits

Banana, orange, apple,

pineapple, peers, ...

Fats

Olive oil, fish oil, real

butter, nuts, flax seeds, ...

Gain Weight. You'll never look

muscular weighing 140lbs at 6". No

matter how much training you do.

Check the guide on how to gain weight

for skinny guys. Here's the most

important part.

Eat Calorie Dense Foods.

100g raw spinach is 25kcals.

But 100g raw rice is 380kcals.

Eat pasta, oats, olive oil, mixed

nuts, etc.

Get Stronger. Increase your

Squat to at least 300lbs .

Muscle size is directly related

with strength gains. You got to

get stronger to build muscle.

Drink Whole Milk. If you

don’t bother gaining some fat,

drink 1 gallon whole milk daily

on top of your current food

intake. You can gain 25lbs in 1

month if you combine this with

3 weekly Squat sessions. (Squats) stronglifts.com/how-to-squat-with-proper-technique-fix-common-problems/

I hope this helps!

Don't do any cardio, just lift. Also, it is really easy to gain weight by eating protein bars every hour. You will gain weight, no matter how fast your metabolism.

Try to eat a lot of meat, like steak/eggs. Protein bars help too, but too many will give you harsh pains during workouts. So just keep to your regular routine while adding more of these to your life.