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reubenpjwatt
reubenpjwatt Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
Hi everyone!
I am a skinny young adult with very little fat around my arms but a little bit on my stomach. I want to try and bulk up a bit. Any ideas how I can. I don't want to eat unhealthy stuff.

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  • sammyliftsandeats
    sammyliftsandeats Posts: 2,421 Member
    Find out how many calories you burn in a day, add 250 to 500 calories on to that.

    Eat that number while maintaining a progressive overload lifting routine.

    It will be harder to eat a lot of calories just eating 'healthy' stuff so it's totally fine to have a nice treat after you've reached your nutritional minimums for the day.
  • caseyjames33
    caseyjames33 Posts: 27 Member
    edited April 2017
    Do what Sammy said
  • Fitnessfaith7465
    Fitnessfaith7465 Posts: 22 Member
    Protein protein protein... Excellent for the muscles..
  • Muscle_for_Fitness
    Muscle_for_Fitness Posts: 2,198 Member
    Eat in a surplus is the easiest answer. If you want to gain as much muscle as you can while gaining weight, add a progressive lifting program and keep your protein high (~1 g/lb lean mass)
  • GDMarch2015
    GDMarch2015 Posts: 6 Member
    Just eat more in general and lift often. I started out with zero muscle mass when I started lifting and my lifting buddies had me eat more than normal and I literally gained 20 pounds of muscle from doing so.
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