The Myth Of Gaining Muscle Without Fat!

By: Anthony Ellis

Many of you have expressed concerns about gaining too much body
fat while on such a high calorie diet, and wonder if you should
do some aerobic exercise to offset the weight gain.

Absolutely not.

That will be detrimental to gaining muscle. For best results,
you either have to train and diet to gain muscle or lose fat.
One or the other. If you are a true hardgainer, you cannot do
both. If you try, you will not make any substantial progress
either way. So, now is the time to gain weight. You will worry
about losing fat later.

The fact is that there are no magic pills, powders, foods or
exercises that will allow you to gain muscle and lose fat at the
same time.

It all is determined by your genetics and metabolism. Some
people can do it, some can't. If you are naturally thin and have
a difficult time gaining weight of any kind, it would be silly
of you to think that you will be able to gain muscle while
trying to keep your body fat low.

Most skinny guys want to gain more muscle, but are afraid of
gaining body fat. They see all the bodybuilder photos and read
the stories about people gaining pounds of muscle while losing
pounds of fat -- They want to do the same. When looking at these
photos, you have to remember that most of these people do not
have your body type. The majority of them are overweight and
want to lose fat, not gain muscle.

'Well', you say, 'What about those people who transformed their
bodies? They lost fat and gained muscle'. Yes, but almost all of
these people were overweight, or had high levels of body fat. In
other words, their metabolisms were, for the most part, slow.
They simply dieted and trained for fat loss.

Weight training helped them to tone up and slightly increase
their muscle mass by replacing some of the fat with muscle.
However, you will never increase your body mass far above your
original starting weight on that type of diet.

In other words, even though you gain some muscle, you will
actually weight less!

For example, Big Joe weighs 189lbs with 18% body fat. This works
out to be 34lbs of fat and 155lbs of muscle. He then goes on a
fat loss diet and slowly diets down to a ripped 5% body fat at
168lbs, which is 8.4lbs of fat and 160lbs of muscle. He lost
26lbs of fat, and his weight only went down by 21lbs. So,
looking that this we realize that he managed to also gain 5lbs
of muscle. You can see that he has more muscle mass than when he
started, and he looks totally ripped, but his weight decreased
because his main goal was fat loss. He looks much better, and
his measurements changed, but he only increased his total weight
by five pounds.

If you are very thin, you cannot do this. Yes, your body fat
will decrease, and this will also give you more muscle mass, but
it will not increase your weight. You will just get much
thinner. Big Joe was 'big' to begin with; we are not. To get the
same results as Big Joe, you must first gain the weight, and
then concentrate on losing the body fat later. Joe had the size;
he just needed to trim down. We do not have the size to work
with, so we have to force our bodies to grow beyond our body's
comfort range. This is the hard part.

This is why if you want to grow beyond your current size, you
have to diet for it specifically.

Remember, most of you have extremely fast metabolisms. Gaining
weight will be extremely difficult.

The only way you will get bigger is to shock your body.

You must shock your body by:

1. Training with heavy weights, and

2. Eating a lot of calories.

The first shock is with weight training. You must focus on
compound free- weight exercises, and lift heavy weights, which
will stimulate the largest amount of muscle fibers. Your body
responds to this stimulus by increasing your muscle mass.

The second way we must shock our body is by eating more calories
than your body is used to. This is the most important factor in
gaining mass. When you overload your system with plenty of
protein and fats, your body has no other choice but to gain
weight.

About the author:
Former "skinny guy" Anthony Ellis is the author of Gaining Mass!
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