How to Gain Weight With Exercise

Video Transcript

"How to gain weight through exercise, can it be done? Absolutely and the good news is, it's going to be the right kind of weight, all muscle. Hi, my name is Jani Roberts, I'm a graduate of the American Academy of Nutrition and a certified personal trainer. The best and most effective way to gain weight through exercise is to work the body, don't worry about weights, don't worry about tools, just use your own body weight. You can do this by doing power movement, we like to call it agility and also plyometric movement. You're simply going to move your own body weight. For example, lets say you go into a squatting position, we all know this is challenging, you're sitting way back, off your knees and you're going to simply do a plyometric movement straight up and down. By moving your own body weight, your heart rate is going to come up and you're going to really sit deep into those strong larger muscles, the quadricep and the glutes and hamstrings. Doing repetitive movements, such as this, is really going to build strength in those muscles. We have to start here because before you can really lift heavy, you've got to be strong enough to do so. So, start it out with agility movement, quick, fast movement working coordination and reflexes, and then move into plyometric movement, explosive movement. Remember, just moving your own body weight, that'll do it. Heart rate will come up and you'll get strong enough so you can progress into really actually moving weight. In order to gain weight through exercise, we need to increase our muscle mass, it's the only way we really want to do it correctly. So, we're going to have to eventually start to really move more weight than just our own body weight but first, before you can do that, you've got to make sure the body is strong enough. It's key, no injuries, right? So, can you gain weight through exercise? Absolutely, enjoy it. Thanks, this is Jani Roberts."