How To Gain Muscle

Just about everyone, especially every athlete wants to gain muscle at some time or another. And just about everyone can easily gain muscle as well, but only up to a certain point. Once this intermediate stage has been reached, most people and athletes results come to a sudden halt. Well I’m going to hopefully help you break through that plateau and teach you how to gain muscle once you no longer can.

Gaining weight is honestly one of the easiest things to do as an athlete. If I had an athlete come to me that needed to gain some weight before the season begins, it would my make job a lot easier than it is. Now that very rarely happens because as an athlete you need to improve on a lot more than just your size, but it is very possible to improve your athletic abilities along with gaining muscle.

It is possible for an athlete to gain close to 25 pounds in their first year of training, but the number drops to about half out that exponentially until it finally stalls out. I don’t know many athletes that have ever gained over 40 pounds of muscle in their athletic career outside of puberty and steroids. It is just not a very easy thing to do and most athletes take the wrong approach towards building muscle.
The first thing an athlete must do in order to gain muscle is quite obvious; they must be training, and training very hard at that. They also must have a good weight training program, not some crappy cookie cutter routine that they found on the web, but rather a customized weight training program built specifically for them. Now I know I have said gaining muscle is easy, but the volume that an athlete must reach can be very difficult for the athlete. By difficult I mean that it would be tough and usually give an athlete that “burning” feeling in their muscles. That burning feeling would be from a lack of oxygen due to the high reps.

The next thing an athlete must do is eat, and eat, and eat. In order to gain tons of weight, an athlete must completely change their calorie consumption. I am talking about thousands of calories more a day; this is the type of eating it must take in order to gain lots of weight. I do not recommend that an athlete eat “junk” food and what not, but it is still possible to gain solid muscle eating like that. I am just not a fan of what it has the capability to do to an athlete in the later stages of life.

Now that is pretty much all there is to gaining weight; training hard and eating. Of course there are some other factors that go into play, but they are pretty irrelevant. I’ve seen athletes gain tons of weight over the course of one off season, and you can to!