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Gaining weight and specifically muscle can be very challenging. I spent the majority of my high school and college years trying to pack on size in the form of muscle to be a bigger and stronger football player. While I wasn’t really concerned or interested in aesthetics that was a natural correlation to putting on muscle. None of this is easy, specifically if you are an athlete and very active. This write up is to give you some suggestions and ways in which I’ve seen great success in gaining both size and strength. But I’ll preface it by saying, it’s all about your commitment and your nutrition is the limiting factor.
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At times like this our focus and energy must continually be set on gratitude. Find things that you have or things you can do that make you happy and grateful. At the very least you have the ability to read this article today and you have breath in your lungs, some lost that ability this morning. As sober and simple as it sounds, this is the key to true happiness. It takes work, it takes practice and more importantly it truly takes maturity, over time you’ll understand that the more we focus on what brings us joy, we become joyful. The point of this article isn’t to transform your mindset but I do hope it acts as a source of consideration as you read this.
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Are you missing your bench? If you are a regular at a gym I’m certain that your sadness goes deeper than missing the bench press, however all my “bro’s” feel the pain! I hear you, and understand. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE should have to lose too many bench gains simply because of a virus. Doesn’t this silly sickness know that we have a summer bod to prepare for? How dare this thing! Covid-19 is adding our summer body to the list of things that it’s ruining!
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Through the years the debate has been heated, ruthless, ever evolving and even rude at times! What debate do you ask? Well, of course I’m referring to how much protein one should eat or consume each day. There have been some that claim we don’t need to worry about “how much” protein we get as long as we get “some”. There have been groups of people who claim that you don’t need “whole” sources or “complete” sources of protein and can get all you need from plants and mixing incomplete sources of protein together to make what we need. And then of course there are groups of people who swear that you MUST eat whole meat sources of protein (complete sources) in order to build and maintain muscle.
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We are at a time in life that none of us saw coming! All of us are stuck at home balancing our traditional life with our work life. This has created an obstacle for many families, parents and even single entrepreneurs and employees. Whether you have been working from home for a while before the quarantine or you are just new to it, we are now all in the same boat!