So you think that you are grossly underweight and is embarrassed to show off your body at the beach or the swimming pool for fear of being laughed at.
You are already eating all you can and yet gaining even one pound of body weight is utterly elusive.
You know something? Go take up bodybuilding.
This is because of your naturally high metabolic rate, you burn up all the calories that you eat easily and quickly.
However, if you lift weights, you will force your body to channel those calories to your muscles for them to be repaired from the training as well as forcing the muscles to grow! Furthermore, you will be looking good with well toned muscularity instead of ugly and unhealthy body fat.
So if you intend to increase weight, then make that muscle weight.
Also muscles weigh heavier than fat and so you can put on the pounds faster.
Of course you have to continue eating and even eat more to feed your muscles to grow bigger.
If you have the budget, hire a good personal trainer who is experienced in getting results in helping thin people to increase their muscle weight.
With professional help, you can achieve your goals much faster.
If not, here are some tips on how thin people can increase their weight through bodybuilding.
The keyword here to remember is progressive overload.
What is progressive overload? It means that every time when you lift the weights, you either have to increase the repetition or the weight load.
For example, if you curl with ten pounds of eight reps today, try to go for eleven pounds or ten reps of ten pounds the next time you hit the gym.
Have you seen people who do the same exercises with the same reps and the same weight day in and day out? Do you know what their results will be? Of course you do.
They will stay the same, that's all.
When you do the same thing, you get the same result, isn't it? Next important factor in building muscles is training with compound exercises.
Isolation exercises have its uses, but not for you at the moment because your aim is to make your entire body grow, not just specific body parts.
So what are compound exercises? These are exercises that require the movement of two or more joints.
This is because the more joints are involved in the movements, the more muscle fibers and parts are activated and thus with more muscles involved, naturally more muscles will grow.
Exercises like dead lift, full squats and bench presses are excellent compound exercises.
Because of your propensity to burn more calories naturally, you will need to supplement your diet with protein powders.
You need protein to build muscles but if the proteins that you consume during your meals are metabolized away, then you will not have enough of it to repair and build your muscles.
Last but not least, you must have adequate rest and sleep.
Your muscles repair and grow during your sleep.
Sleep is also the time when your body produces more growth hormones and testosterone which are essential to building muscles.
So if you want to gain weight, take up bodybuilding and not only will you increase your weight, you will be looking fabulously good as well.