How to GAIN weight?

You are wanting to gain weight?

The easist way to gain weight is to build muscle as muscle weight 5:1 outweighs fat, so start uping your protein intake and hit the gym.

You are wanting to gain weight? The easist way to gain weight is to build muscle as muscle weight 5:1 outweighs fat, so start uping your protein intake and hit the gym.

Whoa, careful there. Muscle is only about 20% more dense than fat, not nearly the 5x you claim.

Think about it, one pound of fat obviously does not take up five times as much volume as one pound of muscle. Overweight people would be HUGE.

Still, muscle is a lot healthier to have than fat. You can add between 0.5-1.0 pound of muscle to your body per week.

Muscle doesn't wiegh more than fat, Muscle is just more dense.

Muscle doesn't wiegh more than fat, Muscle is just more dense.

OW.

Your logic hurts my brain.

OW. Your logic hurts my brain.

It depends on the context, I guess.

1 lb of fat weighs the same as 1 lb of muscle. In this sense, he's right. But this is being silly.

I'm trying to gain 20 lbs. So far I've gained 8. Whey protein is good.

OW. Your logic hurts my brain.

How does my logic hurt your brain?


If you take 6 inches of fat, take 4 inches of muscle and put them on a scale, the muscle will weigh more.

Why? Muscle has more density as opposed to more mass.

Yes, if you take 1 pound of fat and 1 pound of muscle and weigh them both, they will both equal 1 pound.


Density: A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.

Yay / Nay?

::Edit::

Here's a look at them both under a microscope:

Muscle DOES weigh more than fat. A cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat. Yes, muscle is more dense than fat, which is why muscle weighs more.

Obviously a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat. When trying to determine which weighs more, that's not relevant.

So then what exactly are we debating about here? lol

When trying to determine which weighs more, that's not relevant.

fuck u ww

Muscle doesn't wiegh more than fat, Muscle is just more dense.

Wrong, and yes my ratio was off, I honestly didn't know. I just know muscle is much higher than fat.

for a skinny person the best way to gain weight is to up your carb intake as well as protein, if you dont have the energy to burn when you workout you're only going to be wasting your muscle cells. and also, if you're planning to lift weights often to help you gain weight, DO NOT overtrain, most people train one body part till they cant even move it anymore.. 9/10 this is overtraining, and can lead to a decrease in muscle volume and it will take a hell of alot longer to recover.