should I excersises everyday while trying to gain weight?

New to the site!! I'm trying to gain 20 lbs. I'm underweight and I take in the amount if calories I need everyday. I also do squats and lungs 5 or 5 days out the week. Should I be doing this? I'm gaing weight in my butt on down. I'm trying to tone it.

Not, between 3 and 4 times a week should be enough if you want to gain muscle.

Focus on weight training. Upper and lower body. Push protein. Minimize cardio... Do SOME cardio for heart health but probalby not more than 3 times per week @ 20 minutes. Focusing on the weight training with solid protein intake will help you gain lean mass more than fat mass (that will look better and is healthier)... Eat at about a 500-700 calorie surplus. Best wishes.

If you want to get muscles, do 2 times exercise daily (morning and evening). At the starting days you need to make some extra efforts for gaining weigh.

no. just a whole lot of no.

Okay- OP.
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What specifically are "the amount of calories I need"?

Meaning- how much are you eating- and do you know what maintenance is for you?

In order to truly gain muscle-there are three ingredients
1.) eat at a surplus
2.) you must progressively challenge your body- typically this is a progressive lifting program.
3.) be patient- this is hard- and time consuming.

You should absolutely NOT be exercising every day- especially if you get on a lifting program. You need rest- muscle builds in your REST time- sleep and off days.

And the more working out you do- the more food you must eat- this is why people bulking typically do not do a lot of cardio- it just means more food they have to eat and at some point- i'ts not fun- it's just work.

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And honestly you'd be surprised how much you really need to eat alongside working out (lifting.)

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woooo you must be still con fused but i did see one post there with it saying the amount of calories you eating and needing rest this is a big thing you can train 20 to 30 minutes and lift heavy with short if none breaks so if your benching put enough on till you can only do 4 to 6 rep and say then curls to shoulder press the same and back to the bench press same again repeat 4 to 6 times depending how much takes out of you then rest a day and if need two days rest you will get use to it and be able to recover in one day if you eat right and train how i say now ive done this alone an experiment of me own and well it lifted my chest and my shoulders got wider and fuller now it wasnt so much me who noticed as i went up a size in t-shirt and was still tight on the arms shoulders and chest but i thought it was the was that left it tight but i had many a people say you must be working out alot no i wasnt well 3times a week is plenty and even got acused of taking steroids ths was that afective give it a try and do clean reps half reps and lazy reps no good if your lifting less reps but doing better forum you will see better gains try this for two months and you will see big difference i promise that

i exercise every day, regardless of whether i'm trying to gain weight , lose weight , or maintain. Exercise is good for you, find a program that works towards the goals you want. If you wanna just just gain weight, eat a lot of ice cream and twinkies. If you wanna gain muscle, get on a good lifting program and nourish your body accordingly.

so you're last sentence was spot on with one tweak- everything else was suspect- esp the whole exercising every day thing.

if you want to gain muscles, get on a good lifting program, and nourish your body accordingly, this means resting as well as feeding

part of training requires resting.

thanks JoRocka!!! yes rest, even for the wicked! hopefully a good lifting program will incorporate rest ,