i'm too skinny

[chris1970]

help i'm 6ft 4" tall and really skinny i just cant put on any weight i lift weights and play football and cycle alot but nothing works can anyone out there give me any ideas on how to rectify this as it is getting me down.Thanks

[abranei]

Its simply boils down to eating enough quality foods.

Many people underestimate the amount of foods required to pack on lean muscle mass.

I have to eat 3000 calories a day. I consume 6-7 meals a day taken 3 hours apart.

Follow the link on how much carbs and protein you need to take. Once you have these figures you can adjust your intake to suit your needs. You many still fail to put quality mass on so simply increase the amount of carbs until you do. Likewise if you start gaining fat trim the carbs down until you. Protein provides the bricks and the carbs provide the energy to train and use the bricks (protein) to build muscle.

http://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/diet-to -gain-weight.html

Be careful with the amount of cardio you do. Too much cardio will work against you when it comes to building muscle.

Get a fat caliper (Accu-measure) this will allow you to tell if your weight increase is muscle or fat. you can then tell if your eating too little or to much based on composition changes.

Finally two legal products that all BBers should use as basis for muscle growth is creatine and a quality protein shake.

[rebecca321]

just eat pie

[nannon]

my mate has this problem - he drinks a shake called 'muscle build' or something - he has two shakes a day each containing 1500 calories - he eats his normal daily food on top of this. He lowered his excerise regime He swears he put on a stone in 11 days... still looks bloody skinny to me though!!

[angussyung]

Lucky you!
I'm 4ft 2 and 18 stone..........

[abranei]

1500 calories a shake!!!!!!

You take on 1500 calories in one sitting and your asking for trouble. Youd get an insulin blast that would say too much energy so dump it as fat

No one wants fat!

Since the body cant take all the goodness from food a lot of the goodness would simply pass through to the other end without be touched by the digestive system.

Gaining weight should be lean muscle mass!

[what..the?]

You can eat healthy but mix carbs with protein, carbs being the most important.

I.e. eat lean meat with potatos or pasta. Potato is extremely good with anything.

And with sweet food or mashed potato mix in 'skimmed milk powder'

All these foods with help you bulk up, try not too run around too much though it sounds like you are burning off all your food stores before they have chance! Weights sounds like a good way to go.

[HannahRichie]

Alot of my guy mates have this problem too.
It's weird because their really skinny, yet they don't like skinny girls... ?

Just try eating alot :)
or drink protein shakes.
Apparently they work.

good luck (Y)