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Gain Muscle The Healthy Way, Know How?

Mukta Agrawal

how to gain muscle

I am pretty sure; you would be waiting to ask me this question from so long. However, tell me, do you really think it is that easy to gain muscle? I would say it is easy if you follow the right technique and give appropriate time.

Being a nutritionist, for me food is on top most priority, I think food plays a major role to gain muscle mass. If you exercise three hours a day and don’t eat a healthy well balanced diet, then there are high chances of you to lose your muscle. To be very frank with you, there is no rocket science behind muscle building. It only needs a perfect blend of proper nutrition and exercise design. I have often noticed that some weight trainers often overlook the food aspect which hampers the health of their client.

Each one of you whether male or female, require to increase your muscle to stay healthy. However, the structure of the male and the female body is different and hence the percentage of muscle in a sedentary male will always be more than a female.

You need to follow a healthy lifestyle pattern, if you need to increase your muscles and maintain a good physique.

So let us finally see how to gain muscle in a healthy manner.

How To Gain Muscle Fast?

  1. Equal Division of Meals

In earlier days my mom used to tell me “Don’t keep on eating again and again you might become fat, you should only eat three times a day”

However, after practicing this field of nutrition for 5 years, I got to know so many new things. You should eat small frequent meals so that your body will not store the food as fat, and also your metabolism will increase.

If you will eat a large portion at one time then there are high chances of you to gain more fat or fast way to gain muscle. Hence it is important to divide your meal size.

  1. Importance of Protein

One day at my clinic, Mrs Mehta came and said, “As you told me to eat every two hours I am eating similarly but when I checked my body composition analysis my muscle percentage has gone down”

I asked her “what did you eat in mid morning and mid evening meals”

She said “1 cup oats in the mid morning and 1 plate of bhel in the evening”

She was having quite healthy snacks than what was wrong in her diet?

She was missing protein in her mid morning and mid evening snack. If you want to increase muscle, it is very important to include protein in every meal. There are many ways to gain muscle fast. Your meals can only be protein at times but should not lack in protein.

Diet for mass gain of muscles

Few egs. of mid morning snack

Few egs. of mid evening snack

  1. Importance Of Carbohydrates

When I am in my gym I often hear people talking about diet. One incident was as follow,

“Sunny you have lost 10 kg of weight in a month’s time, how did you do so?

“Rocky, nothing I just removed this stupid carbohydrates out of my diet completely”

“Really? Don’t you feel hungry?

“If I feel hungry than I eat fruits more”

So are you aware which all foods come under carbohydrates?

You will say I know few but not all, right?

Come let us quickly glance through on carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates: Simple (Bad) and Complex (Good)

What are simple carbohydrates?

Due to less amount of fiber content simple carbohydrate is also called as bad carbohydrates. As you must be aware carbohydrate is ultimately converted into sugar, if the fibre is less, the conversion rate is much faster and you gain weight and muscle. The excess sugar which gets stored in the form of fat and, therefore, the weight increases and muscle decreases.

Foods which have simple carbohydrates are

The list will go on and on as all the junk food comes under this category. If you are serious to maintain good health and body then, you need to avoid such carbohydrates.

What are complex carbohydrates?

Complex carbohydrates are the one that has more amount of fiber and, therefore, their conversion to sugar is slow. Also, complex carbohydrate increases your satiety level and increase muscle mass. Complex carbohydrates are very healthy to have as they are full of fiber.

Food which are rich in complex carbohydrate:

  1. Pre and Post Workout Meal

I am sure you might be aware of the importance of pre and post workout meals. These are the healthy way to gain muscle.

So let us take a tour on workout time foods.

Pre Workout Healthy Foods

Pre workout meal is as you know important so that you are having enough amount of energy to do workouts. Hence complex carbohydrate is the ideal meal to consume.

Post Workout Healthy Foods

During the workout, you breakdown lots of muscle and, therefore, to repair your muscle regeneration protein is required, and post workout meal should be rich in protein that will not only help you to recover but also will help to gain weight and muscle faster.

  1. Skipping Your Meals

Many a times it happens you eat a heavy breakfast and do not feel hungry during lunch hours .You tend to skip your lunch thinking you will balance your extra calories. That is the biggest mistake which you do. Even if you are not that hungry you should have some food that is rich in protein accompanying with salad so that the body will not store the next meal as fat.

This topic is so vast which I am unable to cover in one article. I know you are expecting me to guide you on exercises as well.
I promise you my next article will be on the same, till then try to follow all the advices given above and get back to me with lots of comments and queries on how to gain muscle mass.

Note: To increase your muscle as I said protein is very important. You should take whey protein powder 2 scoops daily with a glass of skimmed milk and also a tablet of multivitamin and minerals.

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