The Truth About Gaining Weight

Posted by Rob D. on April 6, 2011 in Training and Nutrition | 1,227 comments

I know that this is a big statement to make, but I’ve been where you are now and I’ll tell you straight – beeing weak and skinny sucks, especially if you are in your early twenties!

I always loved sports: from football to rugby – I’ve played everything, yet no matter how much I loved sports – I wasn’t one of those guys who are naturally athletic. I always wanted to get big and as a result of this over the last two years I’ve literally spent hundreds of hours reading about human physiology, nutrition and weight training.

I did everything I could in order to learn about how could I re-engineer my body in order to make it bigger.

After dozens of hours of research I’ve decided to apply the information that I’ve learned and in less than two months I’ve gained over twenty pounds of muscle without the use of anabolic steroids, nor expensive supplements.

More importantly I’ve achieved these results while ignoring everyhing the so called fitness gurus you see in popular fitness magazines teach you about muscle building. Instead I’ve focused on strategies that have worked ten, twenty, thirty years ago and I’ve applied them now.

The goal of this part of the training program is not to teach you specific information about what to eat or how to train, but instead I want to share with you some principles and ideas that should change the way you think about gaining weight.

Ignore most of the “experts”

First of all I believe that it is really important to ignore everything the so called fitness gurus teach you about bodybuilding.

I love to read fitness magazines and I think they’re great for entertainment: It’s always nice to see a fresh set of pictures of bikini model of the month. What I don’t recommend is to use the information you find in popular fitness magazines (or websites) as an ultimate source of information.

You see, the problem is that most of the articles that are written in popular fitness magazines are written by professional bodybuilders or athletes who have trained for years. You need to realize that most of these professionals only eat, train and sleep. Fitness and bodybuilding is their lifestyle. They don’t need to go to school, they do need to go to university, nor do they need to go to work and what works for them doesn’t necessaraly mean that it will work for you.

Most of the training programs that are found in popular fitness websites and magazines are too intensive and advanced for a guy or a lady who is completely new to fitness.

Over the next few days I am going to share with you how to eat and train if you’re completely new to fitness.

Save your money

Secondly you need to realize that there’s no need to spend hundreds (thousands?) of dollars on various pills, powders or supplements.

I know so many people who want to gain muscle and they think that only if they’ll buy this new weight gainer, protein powder or creatine formula – they’ll get big. The reality is that supplements play a minor role in weight gaining. Of course they can help you to achieve results quicker, but the reality is that there are few far more important things than supplements and over the next few days I am going to reveal these things to you.

There are no secrets

There’s no secret diet, secret training program or secret little pill that will make you big quick.

Everyday thousands of people who want to get bigger are looking for the secret pill, secret workout plan or secret diet plan that will make them big quick. The reality is that there’s no easy way out – if you want to get bigger, if you want to gain muscle, if you want to tone up your muscles then you’ll need to work. There are no shortcuts and the only thing you need to do in order to gain weight is take the baby steps and move one step at a time.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint” or “Rome wasn’t built in one day”

To be honest with you I have no idea who said these words, but these words have a very deep meaning.

This point is kinda related to some of the things that I’ve mentioned previously, but the reality is that too many people think that it is possible to get big almost overnight. Do a simple search on Google or go to your favorite fitness website and I can almost guarantee you that you’ll get bombarded with ads that promote various training programs and pills that promise amazing gains in a very short period of time.

Even though you can get big in a relatively short period of time, you also need to be realistic. What sounds too good to be true probably is total BS.

Anyway I want to wrap up todays part of the program and tomorrow we’ll move on to more specific things. I believe the things that I’ve mentioned in the previous paragraphs are really important if you want to gain weight successfully. Please keep them in mind.