Gaining Muscles without fat, can it be done?

In my years of training, I have heard allot of people asking this question, or similar so I have decided to try and answer this one. The concerns are gaining while on a high calorie diet and if they should do aerobics to offset the weight gain. NO… this isn’t the way forward.

Why I hear you shout at your screens, well this will detrimental (good word I think) to gaining muscle. For the desired results you want you have two options, train and diet to gain muscle or lose weight, you can not to both. If you are a true what we call a hardgainer (A Hardgainer is a genetically-typical person (if there is such a thing). Now you want to gain weight, we can cross the weight loss bridge when we come to it.

We do not have a magic pills, powders, food or exercise that will allow you to gain muscle and lose the weight at the same time, it’s impossible and I would strongly advise you not to even try it as you will be disappointed and you’ll be wasting valuable training time.

Your genetics and metabolism will determine how things go for you. There are some people who can do it, and then there are people who cannot put weight on no matter how hard they try. I believe it will be a waste of your time and energy to try and gain muscle while trying to keep the body weight low.

Allot of skinny guys want to be able to gain more muscle or tone up, but they seem to be afraid of gaining body fat, they look at all the pictures and articles on line and in magazines about people being able to gain the pounds, but what you all need to remember is that each bodybuilders body is totally different to yours. The bodybuilders who loss the fat while building muscle, you have to remember are big guys who have allot to lose while building, where you might have no body fat on you what so ever. Just remember that while making your mind up to train, and what you want to gain from it.

Weight training helps people to tone up and slightly increase their muscle mass by turning fat into muscle, but please and I mean please remember that you will never increase your body mass far above your own starting weight on that particular or type of diet.

You gain muscle, you will lose a lil weight, it’s like the ying and yang of the bodybuilding world.

If you want to gain weight you need to design your diet accordingly. Allot of us have extremely fast metabolism; gaining weight can be and has been proven to be difficult.

I have learnt that if you want to gain weight, you need to shock your body with heavy weights and eating lots of calories.

When weight training to shock your body, you need to pay more attention to the compound free weight exercises, and lift heavy weight as they will stimulate the largest amount of muscle fibres, your body will react by increasing its muscle mass.

The eating shock part of this way is to eat as much protein and fats as you can (not in one sitting of course) but as you do, you over load your body which in turn it will create more fat..