If you are naturally thin, gaining weight can be as hard as losing it. Weight gain can be a slow process that requires some patience. However, it can be achieved by eating and exercising properly. Here's a look at how you can gain weight by exercising.
RESISTANCE TRAINING
Resistance training is any exercise that causes your muscles to contract against an external resistance. You can expect an increase in strength, tone, mass and or endurance with these types of exercises. The external resistance can be dumbbells, your own body weight, bottles of water or any type of object that causes your muscles to contract.
There are various styles of resistance exercises:
WEIGHT LIFTING
Fortunately, gaining weight isn't much different for males and females. Weight gain is essentially the same for both sexes. Some women get the impression that if they lift weights, it will make them look masculine. Rest assured, this will not happen. We simply don't posses the hormone levels (mostly testosterone) that will allow us to become huge muscular creatures. The bodybuilder women that we see with the enormous muscles did not get like that overnight and besides, they're always using some type of steroid to look that way.
When you begin your exercises, you'll want to focus on free weights that don't require any machinery to target your large muscle groups. Examples of free weights are dumbbells, barbells and wearable weights. Free weights stimulate the maximum number of muscle fibers by putting stress on your muscles. When you want to gain weight by exercising, the best exercises to do are free weight exercises like squats, walking lunges, push ups, bench presses and crunches. Although they don't need any machinery, these exercises are best done under supervision.
When you exercise to gain weight, remember that this alone wont pack on pounds. You will need to combine this with a healthy, balanced diet. When you know the right foods to eat and the right type of exercises to do, you can obtain the shapely, feminine curves that you've always wanted!
By Suzanna Du.
RESISTANCE TRAINING
Resistance training is any exercise that causes your muscles to contract against an external resistance. You can expect an increase in strength, tone, mass and or endurance with these types of exercises. The external resistance can be dumbbells, your own body weight, bottles of water or any type of object that causes your muscles to contract.
There are various styles of resistance exercises:
- olympic lifting is where the athletes lift the weight over their head like you see when watching the olympics.
- power lifting is a competition where athletes perform the squat, dead lift and bench press.
- weight lifting is a sport where athletes lift heavy weights.
WEIGHT LIFTING
Fortunately, gaining weight isn't much different for males and females. Weight gain is essentially the same for both sexes. Some women get the impression that if they lift weights, it will make them look masculine. Rest assured, this will not happen. We simply don't posses the hormone levels (mostly testosterone) that will allow us to become huge muscular creatures. The bodybuilder women that we see with the enormous muscles did not get like that overnight and besides, they're always using some type of steroid to look that way.
When you begin your exercises, you'll want to focus on free weights that don't require any machinery to target your large muscle groups. Examples of free weights are dumbbells, barbells and wearable weights. Free weights stimulate the maximum number of muscle fibers by putting stress on your muscles. When you want to gain weight by exercising, the best exercises to do are free weight exercises like squats, walking lunges, push ups, bench presses and crunches. Although they don't need any machinery, these exercises are best done under supervision.
When you exercise to gain weight, remember that this alone wont pack on pounds. You will need to combine this with a healthy, balanced diet. When you know the right foods to eat and the right type of exercises to do, you can obtain the shapely, feminine curves that you've always wanted!
By Suzanna Du.
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