How to gain weight using Visalus Health products

So you've been a skinny little twig since birth and no matter how much you eat you just can't seem to gain weight or shake the skinny comments from your friends?
Well, if you're health questions revolve around gaining weight and how to do it healthy, you've come to the right place. I've got some tips to share with you about how to gain weight, but don't let yourself think it's going to be easy because it is not. To gain HEALTHY weight and body mass, you are going to have to eat right and exercise one a regular basis. Do you think you're still up for it? Then read on friend!

Alright, first you need make sure your body can handle this type of change. After all, you've been this skinny your entire life, haven't you? Putting on extra weight can be hard on your body especially if it is "fat" because it can actually inhibit blood flow and other normal bodily functions. This is the biggest reason why when you want to gain weight, it is really important that you don't try to do it only by "eating more food". Because you want to gain healthy body mass (muscle), you need to introduce yourself to a regular healthy diet that contains high protein, low fat and a medium amount of carbohydrates. [see the links below for more information]

Protein is great for building muscle - it is basic building block required by the amino acids in our body to build muscle tissue! Do you know what else is great about muscle? When you use them, they burn fat! :)

Carbohydrates (carbs) are great for cardio - if you're trying to get lean or just plain fit so that you can run a marathon or climb a mountain, you need your cardio. Cardio goes hand-in-hand with building muscle because since it gets your blood pumping, it takes more oxygen to your muscles, helps release lactic acid build-up, and therefore assists in maintaining healthy muscle growth.

Probably the best examples we can follow are the muscle building champions of the world. These people eat, sleep and breathe muscle building. So what can we take from these muscle building, weight gaining, gurus?

Well most of them eat every 2 hours - this is great if you a skinny minnie because after about 2 hours, your body goes into what it feels is "starvation mode" where it actually uses fat and/or muscle for fuel. If you are constantly fueling your body with high protein foods, you don't have to worry about it eating up all your precious muscle (probably not much of your fat because you're already so darn skinny).
So some really great things I recommend are carrying protein bars, nut mixes, or also protein shake mix -ready to mix or already mixed. I personally use a great line of health products by visalus sciences which are very high in protein and low in fat, you can check them out on my website (links provided below).

Now for actually building the muscles. You should spend at least 30 minutes/5 days a week going physical activity that works on the areas that you want to see built/toned. The best way to BUILD is with RESISTANCE. So, for example, if you want to tone your "pipes" (arms), you should weight lift. For size - you want to choose a weight that will give you 8-10 reps per exercise. For lean, you want to choose a weight 12-15 reps per exercise. If you are doing more than 15 reps, you need a heavier weight. It is typical to do approximately 5-8 different exercises on one area of the body (5 exercises x 10 reps = 50 total reps - nice!)

For more information on types of exercises you can do for different areas of the body, check out my website. Also, feel free to contact me directly.