Trying to gain weight and muscle can seem impossible when you’re skinny.

No matter how much you try to eat, or how many muscle-getting gym sessions you squeeze into your week, your muscles refuse to grow and the scales refuse to budge.

So what’s going on here?

Should you just give up on weight and muscle gaining, and accept looking like a toothpick for the rest of your life? Are you doomed to people commenting on and teasing you about being thin?

Well thankfully, no.

There is a way to gain muscle fast as a skinny guy. And all you need to achieve healthy weight gain is to make a few small “tweaks” and changes in your approach. That’s what we’re going to get into in just a moment.

But just before we do, let’s take a quick peek at the typical situation most of us skinny guys find ourselves in:

If you’re tired of being skinny, and you’ve been thin your entire life, then you probably have what’s called an ‘Ectomorph’ body type. And the Ectomorph faces some unique challenges in life. We tend to have thin wrists and thin ankles.

Our metabolism is faster than normal – meaning we burn up energy more quickly than other body types. And we have a dominance of what are known as ‘slow twitch’ muscle fibers, that have less growth potential than the ‘fast twitch’ muscle fibers found in higher concentrations in the other body types.

And for this reason we struggle with gaining weight. We may work out regularly, lifting weights, but we can’t seem to gain muscle mass. Or maybe we notice a small change, but nothing significant. And this gets even more irritating when we see other guys in the gym working out only half as much, wasting time chatting to their buddies, who manage to gain muscle and increase their size really easily.

If you can relate to any of this, then the “tweaks” you’re about to read will be of enormous value to you in your efforts to gain weight and muscle.

4 “SKINNY GUY TWEAKS” TO GAIN WEIGHT AND MUSCLE:

1. Count Calories

Most guys who want to gain weight tell me they eat A LOT. They tell me they eat “all the time”. But when I go a step further and ask them specifically how many calories they’re aiming for each day, very few of them know.

And this is the big distinction you need to make as part of your muscle gain diet. So, instead of guessing your way forward, take the time to actually calculate your daily calorie needs (based on your current weight), and then make sure you track your progress each day.

This process doesn’t need to be complicated. You just need a system in place to track your calorie consumption.

2. Don’t Train Too Often

It’s a common complaint amongst skinny guys: “I lift every day and never gain weight”.

Unfortunately, too many skinny guys see the workout plans in fitness magazines and try using them to gain weight and muscle. And these plans often suggest training 4, 5, sometimes even 6 days a week.

But for the skinny guy who want to put on healthy weight and muscle, this is just way too much. It’s overkill, and it can seriously hurt your ability to gain muscle mass. Your muscle growth and adaptation happens in the recovery time between training sessions. And you’ll typically need at least 48 hours off between workouts to maximize your weight and muscle gaining efforts.

3. Remember To Eat Regularly

In addition to counting calories as part of a muscle gain diet, the skinny guy also needs to eat more than the usual ‘3-meals-a-day’. Instead, planning to eat every 3 hours of your waking day will help keep our body supplied with all the nutrients and calories it needs to gain muscle mass and support healthy weight gain.

4. Follow A Proven Weight Gain Program

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. There’s no need for it when others have done the hard work and paved the way for you already. And even though it might seem like there’s no information on how to gain weight for skinny guys, trust me, it does exist. Yes, most information IS geared towards people wanting to lose pounds and burn off fat – and I’m NOT suggesting you follow those workout plans. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Just identify someone who has figured out what you need to know, managed to gain weight and muscle in the same way you want to, and commit yourself to following their plan. After all, your ability to gain weight build muscle is important right? So, you owe it to yourself to make it happen.

I hope these 4 tips have been useful to you. Put them into action for yourself and let me know how you get on.

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