Successful bulking relies on high-calorie dietary planning, using appetite stimulation vitamins, and implementing male-specific muscle building routines.
A man gains weight by eating more calories than he burns daily. But don't just chow down on donuts and pizza. Eating healthy protein, dairy, whole grains and starchy vegetables will help you look and feel healthier when you need to put on pounds.
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While you can't make weight gain purposefully go to a specific area of your body, you can try to increase your muscle size in your legs and hips to create a fuller, fitter look.
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When your goal is to gain weight, peanut butter is an inexpensive source of high-quality calories. Use it to add nutrition and calories to snacks and meals.
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You need extra protein when you're working out to gain muscle. But if you're getting tired of grilled chicken and boiled eggs you might consider taking a protein supplement.
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Visible ribs often make you look very thin, so it's natural to want to beef up this part of your torso when you're trying to gain weight. You can't dictate where your body puts on pounds, however. Healthy weight gain will fill you out proportionally, according to your genetic body shape.
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When children don't eat enough calories, they fail to thrive energetically and physically. They may not meet growth markers, and if they have a serious illness, they may have trouble bolstering their immune system and living a healthy lifestyle.
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Although weight loss occurs when you reduce your calorie intake and burn more calories, creating too large of a deficit can actually backfire. Your weight loss stalls, you burn muscle rather than fat and you end up a few pounds heavier.
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Eating more is an obvious solution to being underweight, but if you have a weak appetite, it's not an easy one to implement. Certain medications, poor nutrition, food boredom and illness can cause you to lose your appetite.
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If you have a high metabolism, you have to eat more calories than most people just to maintain your weight. If you are active on your active job or practice sports frequently, putting on pounds can become a great challenge.
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Your lifestyle, certain medications and illness can squash your appetite, leading to possible unintentional weight loss that endangers your health. If you are too thin and have a body mass index of less than 18.5, this can compromise your immunity, energy, hormonal function and bone health.
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Gaining weight can take as much effort as losing it. A caloric surplus, which involves consuming a greater number of calories than you burn, helps you put on pounds. No specific vitamin, regardless of its claims, will make you gain weight -- vitamins don't contain calories.
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Some bodybuilders achieve muscle growth by bulking -- increasing weight and presumably -- muscle by overeating. They then "cut" when going into the competition season by prioritizing fat loss and maintaining any muscle the bulking helped them build.
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Smoking not only increases your risk of developing lung cancer and heart disease; it also causes you to store fat around your middle. Despite its ability to squelch hunger pains, a study published in a 2012 issue of "PLoS One" found that smokers had more belly fat than their non-smoking counterparts.
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A child who is underweight due to a chronic medical condition, genetics, poor appetite or picky eating habits is at risk of low energy and illness. Your child's doctor can help you determine whether she needs to gain weight.
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You've done everything right. You pass up the pizza and avoid mindless snacking in front of the TV, so it can feel frustrating when lifestyle changes aren't preventing weight loss. Don't worry, a few simple changes can help get you back on the right track.
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When you're underweight, your chest may appear slight or delicate, so it's not uncommon to want to build size in this region. Men with large, muscular chests look defined and strong; women with voluptuous breasts fill out a bikini top or a strapless dress.
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Being underweight can make you vulnerable to illness, contribute to feelings of fatigue and weakness, and upset your normal menstrual cycle. Gaining weight in a healthy way takes time, though. In a month, you can expect to add 2 to 4 pounds to your frame.
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The scale can fluctuate at least 3 to 5 pounds on any given day. To gain a full pound of fat, you must consume 3,500 calories more than you burn. You'd be challenged to eat this much, or more, above and beyond what you normally need to maintain your weight in two days.
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A slim face can make you look thinner than you'd like, especially if you also have an overly slender body frame. If your doctor has told you that weight gain would improve your health, adopt a healthy approach to adding pounds.
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If being too thin makes you feel self-conscious or interferes with participation in high-school sports like football or hockey, sound strategies can help you gain pounds and achieve a weight that makes you feel better emotionally and physically, especially if your doctor has mentioned that it would benefit your health.
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