What is the best way to put on weight/muscle?
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Eat lots of corned beef and work out.
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Lifting weights is by far the best way to build muscle.  Lifting heavy weights for a few reps is better at adding size.  Good luck.  I don't know how old you are, but keep it up...don't expect a few weeks to get you there.  You need to workout every other day so your body can build.
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Muscle is built through nutrition. Period. Exercise is a way to trick your body to divert more nutrients to building muscle than storing it as fat.\n\nIf you want to add muscle fast work on the big muscles - Glutes, Quads, Chest and Back. Too many people spend a lot of time on smaller muscles like the biceps or the shoulders.\n\nEat more protein. Whey is an excellent source of muscle building protein, but it is also necessary to add other types like cassein (found in dairy products).\n\nRest is very important. The body needs good rest to repair the muscles broken during exercise. Ensure you have atleast 8 hrs of sleep.\n\nVitamins and Antioxidants will help to rid your body of toxins and make it more efficient in muscle building.
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You might be doing a little too much. Especially if you are talking about gaining muscle mass. Gaining muscle mass is a combination of exercise, nutrition, and recovery. If any one of those is out of whack you won't experience the best possible gains. In some cases you won't see any.\n\nMy advice would be:\n\n1. Cut you workouts down to three full body workouts a week. Either Mon,Wed,Fri or Tues,Thurs,Sat. This schedule will allow your muscles to recover and grow. Remember to increase the weight on all your lifts by 10% every two weeks. Try this for about six months. \n\n2. Get a gram of protein for every pound of bodyweight or your lean body mass. Try to get it from lean sources. Eat about six small meals per day.\n\n3. Try creatine and HMB.\n\n4. Drink plenty of water. If you divide your bodyweight in pounds by two that is the number of ounces of water you need to drink in a day.\n\n5. Remember to stretch.\n\n6. Do at least a half hour of cardio three times a week. For some fun cardio take up a martial art like Karate or Tae Kwon Do.\n\n7. Take a good multivitamin.\n\n8. Find out what your body type is. Are you a mesomorph, endomorph, or ectomorph? Are you a combination of any of these. These bodytypes determine how you should workout. Look them up on www.bodybuilding.com for a full explanation.\n\n9. Get as much quality sleep as you can. Eight hours a night is good. You grow while you are sleeping.\n\nHere's a sample three day workout:\n\nWORK OUT PROGRAM \n3 X WEEK\n\n\nLEGS\nSquat                   3x8\nStraight Leg Deadlift   3x10\nStanding Calf Raise     3x10-15\n\nCHEST\nBench Press             3x8-10\nFlyes                   3x8-10\n\nBACK\nPulldown                3x10-15\nBent Over Rows          3x6-10\nDeadlifts               3x10-12\n\nSHOULDERS\n\nMilitary Press          3x8-10\nUpright Rows            3x10-15\n\nBICEPS\n\nStanding Barbell Curls  3x10-12\n\nTRICEPS \nLying Tricep Extensions 3x10-15\n\nSTOMACH\n\nCrunches                3x50\n\n\nMon., Wed., Fri. or Tues., Thurs., Sat.\n\nEvery two weeks increase the weight on each exercise by 10%.  If you can’t don’t worry about it.  Keep trying until you can.\n\nAfter a while you can move back up into heavier workouts. Hope this helps!
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Pushup are good.  Also tricep dips.  Get some dumbells for bicep curls, tricep overhead raises, and such.  Do your upper body workout every other day for best results.
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If you are looking for 1 single exercise to help you gain muscle mass, I would say pushups are the best.  If you are asking this because you are trying to look good, mix in some bicep curls too.  But if you are just trying to gain size and to better defend yourself, pushups are the quickest.  Start with sets of 15 and increase to sets of 50.  Do 4 sets every day.
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Get fat.\nOnly exercise mixed with the protein produces muscle.
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Most women cannot bulk up, no matter how heavy of a weight they use.  If you gain muscle size easily, stick to the light weights with higher reps.  If you don't gain muscle size very easily, go ahead an mix it up.  Use heavy weights some days with low reps and light weights with high reps other days.
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To gain fat: Eat thousands of calories of junk food daily\n\nTo gain muscle: Make sure you get enough protein. A good target to shoot for is 1 gram per pound of lean body mass. Also, exercises of any type will help to stimulate certain muscles - causing them to grow. Also, it is important to be sure that you are hypercaloric to a degree. Your body must have a surplus of calories in order to ensure that there is enough left over to build muscle.
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The best way to increase your weight is to always exceed your daily energy requirements. Find out exactly how many calories you burn on a daily basis through an assessment of your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)& AMR (Active Metabolic Rate). Once you have these numbers, it's simple math. Ensure you are above or consuming more calories than your body burns on a daily basis and you should increase your mass with the appropriate weight training regimen. \n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html\n\nHere are some tips:\n1) always eat a heavy complex carb meal (pasta/rice)at least 1-2 hours before going to sleep.\n2) try weight gainer shakes at your local health food store.\n3) STAY AWAY FROM CARDIO (this really should be a short-term ideally since refraining from cardiovascular exercise can jepordize long-term health). For your purposes in the short-term, cardio will only hamper efforts to gain weight. If you don't have to run then walk, if you don't have to walk then stand, if you don't have to stand then sit, if you don't have to sit then lie down.\n4) weight training (if you are at least intermediate level) should not exceed 8 reps, especially on large muscle groups. Please seek the advice of a professional trainer before proceeding with heavy weights if you are not at least an intermediate level weight trainer. \n5) concentrate on multi joint and power movements such as squats and deadlifts for the largest spike in growth hormone during your workouts (again proceed only under supervision)\n6) never workout more than 90 minutes\n7) track your progress - it's the only way you'll find out what works for you\n8) sleep sleep and more sleep - minimum 9-10 hours to maximize growth.\n9) Drink plenty of water\n10) Creatine - probably one of the best ways to gain weight (if used properly) in the short-term.\n\nHere's a list of weight training exercises to help you:\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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Concentrate on big basic lifts, bench press, squat, dead lift, shoulder press.  Do 3-4 sets on each lift with the weight set at a level where you can do no more than 10 reps on the first set, give yourself 4 mins in between sets.\n\nDon't forget to eat a good high protein diet.
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Pull yourself up on a pull up bar.Fingers facing out.Then bring both your legs up together so your body is like an L.Your legs have to be flat and bring them up slowly and drop them slowly.You might want to add weights on your feet also,because like your biceps to make them bigger and more noticable,you have to strengthen them to make them grow.Or your bodyfat might be a little too high.
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The most important answer to this question is another question.  What type of weight are you trying to gain?  If the answer you want is any as long as the scale goes up.  Your answer is all of the above or what ever you can get and keep down.  If you are strictly trying to put on muscle, the only good answer is proper nutrition and time.  Sorry\nJohn G\nExercise Physiologist
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Weight training is the best way to pack on muscle mass.  However you also need to maintain a daily calorie surplus to ensure you grow and gain the weight.  Here's a calculator that will give you a rough estimate on your metabolic rates:\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html\n\nWeight Training Exercises\nhttp://preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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Protein and carbohydrates! Vegetables! Eat three good meals a day, and two to three healthy snacks. Don't skip. And exercise. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you can get on a good regimen of lifting light weights, you can put on muscle and gain the weight. (Even if you just get 2 lb. dumbbells and work out your arms, you'll see a difference in a couple of weeks.)
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Well just eat foods that are healthy but in larger amounts.Then, lift weights so you can change the food you ate into muscle instead of fat.By doing that you will gain weight by gaining muscle.
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If your goal is to put on as much mass as your genetics will allow, consider the following. First off, in order to gain muscle you may also need to gain some fat. This may sound discouraging but there are ways to keep the fat weight to a minimum. Get yourself in tune to eating about 500 calories more each day, and be sure to spread meals out to 5 or 6 daily. Be careful though, most athletes try to get these extra calories through fat sources. \n\nIt's best to get these calories predominantly from lean sources of protein (e.g. chicken, whey protein, etc.), with some complex carbohydrate and essential fats thrown in the mix. Make sure the extra calories are coming from the recommended percentages of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. An increase in body weight of roughly 0.5 to 1.0lbs. per week is a reasonable goal. Anymore weight gain than that and you're risking the dreaded spare tire. \n\n For maximal gains in muscle mass, keep your reps between 5 and 12 and switch reps schemes every 3 to 4 weeks. This will keep the muscle guessing on what you're doing to it and keep you from overtraining. Now, here's the part that is guaranteed to get some of you hopping mad. DON'T TRAIN HEAVY ALL THE TIME. In other words, if you're training with reps of 10, don't train till failure every time you lift. And I don't care if you're natural or not. Your body will increase faster if you switch training intensity between light, medium, or heavy. \n\nTrust me, it works. You'll feel better, stay hungry for the gym, and you'll keep injuries to a minimum. If your main goal is mass, mass, mass, then I would keep aerobic training to a minimum. In fact, you may just want to keep aerobic training out of your training completely. I wouldn't do anymore than 20 minutes, 2 to 3 times per week. \n\nHere's an example of what a training program might look like. Now remember, this is not the magic program that you stick with for the rest of your life. In fact, I wouldn't stay on it any longer than 4 weeks. It's just an example. You need to switch things up every couple of weeks. \n\nNOTE: Click the exercise name to view the exercise and learn the correct form! \n\nMonday \n\n\nBench press 1x12, 10, 10 \nIncline press 1x12, 10, 10 \nMilitary press 1x12, 10, 10 \nSide-raise 3x12 \nTricep ext 3x12 \nKickback 3x12 \n\n Click Here For A Printable Log Of Monday! \n\nTuesday \n\n\nPull down 1x12, 10, 10 \nSeated Row 1x12, 10, 10 \nBent-over-raise 1x12, 10, 10 \nShrugs 3x12 \nBarbell Curl 3x12 \nDB Curl  3x12 \n\n Click Here For A Printable Log Of Tuesday! \n\nWednesday \n\n\nTake a day off. Eat plenty and sleep.\nThursday \n\n\nSquat 1x12, 10, 10 \nLunges 3x12 \nStiff-Legged Dead lift 3x12 \nLeg Curl 3x12 \nCalf-raise 5x12 \n\n Click Here For A Printable Log Of Thursday! \n\nFriday \n\n\nStart rotation over. Workout Saturday if you feel like it. If not, wait till Monday for another workout.