Friday, August 04, 2006

How To Bulk Up Fast - Without Getting Fat

By: Vince DelMonte

This is the simplest advice you can use to BULK UP FAST
without getting fat at the same time!


I used the same formula when I lived at home with my parents
and gained over 50 pounds of muscle mass over the course of a
year. My Mom was a tough negotiator and only agreed to shop for
my breakfast, lunch and dinner. Those three meals covered about
half of my caloric intake getting me close to 3000 calories each
day. My meal plan required a consumption of four to five
thousand calories so I was still a few dozen calories short from
new muscle growth.

If you are like me and work 8-12 hours a day than it is easy to
become apart of the 'Lame Blame Club' that defaults to the most
convenient excuses in the book. If you are trying to build more
muscle mass than you must have a easy strategy to get in those
extra 1000-2000 precious calories that you are missing.

The 'See' Food Diet Is Not The Answer

Too bad it's not as easy as picking up a box of five dollar
pizza or four cheeseburgers on your way home from work to make
up those extra calories. Actually, it is that easy, if you
believe that a calorie is a calorie.

If building muscle was as easy as stuffing 8,000 calories of
pizza, fries and burgers than I don't think anybody on this
planet would have a problem gaining huge muscles! The extra
calories I am going to recommend are based on clean calories.
These extra calories are for the guys who want to build slabs of
new muscle without a fat gut, love handles and a double chin!

Most mass diets wreak havoc on your health because they are
based on unclean calories. Sure you climb the scale quickly but
you also run the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and
hundreds of others health risks associated with poor diet. Will
your time in the gym offset these health problems associated
with carrying too much fat? A little, but not much, and not in
the long run.

Right now your body needs a certain number of calories to
grow. Let me ask you a simple question. Are you as muscular as
you want to be right now?

Yes. Than keep doing what you are doing!

No. Than most likely your body needs a strategy to ingest an
extra 1000-2000 calories per day. How are you going to do that?

Store Bought Weight Gainer Shakes Are Not The Answer

Most guys resort to weight gain shakes. The weight gain shakes
at health food stores are usually made with very poor protein
quality and loads of sugar. Not good, but the idea of a weight
gainer shake is an excellent one. Liquid-calories are easy to
consume and ideal for in between meal feeding. But you got to
make your own unless you want to look like a pregnant power
lifter!

The Home Made Weight Gainer Is The Answer! Here's what
you will need:


Three-four large 1 L water bottles

A blender

Couple bags of frozen berries from Costco

A tub of natural peanut butter

A tub of protein powder

A few bags of low fat milk

10 minutes of your day



No, you are not mixing all these ingredients exactly but you
can mix the following:

1-3 cups of low fat milk - 300 calories

1-2 cups of mixed berries - 200 calories

40-60 grams of protein powder - 160-240 calories

1-2 tbsp of natural peanut butter - 200 calories

As you can see, this adds up quickly to over 800 clean calories
and they are all healthy foods. You will notice that these
shakes have no junk sugars and no 'bad' fats. So for all those
whiners who complain that they can't get enough food each day -
throw that excuse out the window. You now have a solution.

If calorie counting is not your thing than simply monitor the
number of cups, scoops and tbsp. I would suggest starting with
portion sizes of 1 for everything while the 40-60 grams of
protein always is consistent i.e. 1 cup, 1 scoop and and 1 tbsp
of the above ingredients and than build to two and and three
where recommended.

Your Are In Complete Control Of How Big You Get

These shakes are completely flexible and you are in control of
how much weight you gain and at which rate. Don't be surprised
if the volume of the these shakes make you part with your wash
board abs and result in canceling your Calvin Klein photo
shoots. Throw a couple of these shakes into your daily meal plan
and you'll fill that gap towards new muscle growth. No drive
through required!

Remember, the title of this article was how to bulk up fast,
not how to stay lean all year. I believe that bulking up is the
most effective way to gain mass muscle. Taking the stay lean all
year approach might help you build 5 pounds of muscle a year if
your lucky but taking the bulk up like you mean it will help you
skyrocket 20-30 pound or more and actually make you look like
someone who lifts weights! Which one do you want?

About the author:
NoneVince DelMonte is the author of No Nonsense Muscle Building:
Skinny Guy Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain found at http://www.VinceDelMo
nteFitness.com/


He specializes in teaching skinny guys how to build muscle
and gain weight quickly
without drugs, supplements and trai

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