Know How to Go From Extremely Skinny to Healthy Body Mass.

Hi There! Today I will explain a few gym terminologies you will encounter through out your journey to building muscles & gaining mass. Its important to understand these terms properly before you start lifting weights. I have myself been a victim of not knowing these things when I started lifting & it stalled my gains & progress. So, make sure you understand all these aspects so as to be able to get the maximum benefits. This list will be updated from time to time. I will also be writing separate posts for different common exercises & muscles involved. Form This is the most important part of any workout. Form means how an exercise is done? How weight has to lifted? What should be the position of your target body parts be like while performing it? It includes the upward & downward motion. Suppose, you are doing a dumbbell biceps curl. So, its form is to move only your fore-arm keeping the elbow motion-less by placing it firmly on waist or bench. If you move you...

Now that I have told how you can eat/drink more calories so that you can bulk up, it's time to crank up a little bit & start hitting the gym or in other words , start lifting weights. We have all seen bodybuilders/athletes/models/actors lifting weights to gain their strength & muscle mass and get THAT look.  But first of all, it's important to understand how muscles are built. This is because, if you don't understand it properly, you will end up either under-training or over-training and that will drastically limit your gains. I have myself been a victim of a lack of knowledge that kept me from reaching where I should have been. Otherwise, I would have definitely made much more gains in muscle mass & strength. That being said, let's discuss it. There are around 650 muscles in the human body. They are formed of small protein filaments, so you need enough protein for muscle mass. There is no surprise here. So, how do muscles grow by lifting weights? When ...

Know how to increase the calorie intake/how to eat more to make the gains you want. Now that you have a basic understanding of Diet & Nutrition & the importance of increasing calorie intake, it's time to incorporate this knowledge into your bulking-up plan. Whatever I am posting here is based on what I have done and still doing.  As you know I had been extremely skinny for more than 23 years ( weighing at 46 Kgs and standing 6 feet tall ) & underweight till June 2016. At the time of writing this post, I weigh 74 Kgs. The problem with me is & was that I can't eat large portions at a time. My stomach sends out a signal to stop eating once the threshold is reached in a short time. So, I changed my eating habit and I started eating smaller portions but more frequently. Before you even start to lift weights, make sure you are eating more, eating healthy & eating well.  Below is how to increase your calorie intake so that you can gain weight. I assume you ...

Now that you have ascertained there is no liver, digestion or thyroid related problems (or if there were, you have taken action to treat that first), it's time to move on to the second step. I will start with diet & nutrition first because, as they say , muscle gain is 60% diet (& rest) and 40% exercise. The importance of diet is indispensable.  You don't need supplements and mass-gainers to bulk up if you can eat well. A fairly basic principle states that if you are eating (and drinking) more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. At this point of time, you don't have to think about muscle mass or protein intake.  Y ou just have to eat more & more. And you have to eat healthy foods. A little bit of junk food is alright, but you should get into the habit of eating healthy.  I have always had trouble eating large portions. I still can't eat too much at a time. But I eat frequently. That makes it quite easy to up your calorie intake. This post doesn...