Best Way to Gain Weight
The best way to gain weight is simply to eat more calories than you burn. If you think about it gaining or loosing weight simply comes down to whether we are burning more calories than we eat (loosing weight) or consuming more calories than we burn (gaining weight).
Now if you’re like most guys then you want to gain muscle not fat. This is where eating healthy, doing the right exercises, eating the right foods at the right time and allowing your body to recover from workouts come into play.
Frankly there are a lot of things you can do to build muscle but none of those will do you any good if you aren’t eating enough calories each day. How many calories do you need each day? Well that answer is different for everybody and really different for each day. Somedays you burn more calories than others. This makes it really hard to pinpoint a specific number to aim for.
Here is a fairly easy way to find out roughly how many calories you need to start gaining weight. First, weigh yourself and write it down. Now for the next 3 days keep track of the calories that you eat and weigh yourself again at the end of those 3 days. If you maintained your weight then you can take the average of the 3 days and this is an estimate of how many calories you need to maintain your current weight. Now to gain weight you simply need to add more calories. One pound in roughly equal to 3500 calories so if you wanted to gain 1 pound a week then you would need to add 500 calories to the previous number.
If for some reason you add 500 calories for seven days and still don’t gain weight then simply add another 250 calories each day for the next seven days. Do this until you start gaining weight. I recommend aiming for 1-2 pounds of weight gain each week. Anything more than this and your gains will be more in the form of fat than muscle. Anything less than 1-2 pounds and you will probably loose the motivation to stick with it.