Most of times, people with fast metabolisms can have difficulty building muscle. Even so, it can be done. If you are a "hardgainer," one of the major things to keep in mind is that you shouldn't overlift. That's because if you tend to be underweight, you can overtrain more quickly than someone else.
Although it's tempting, you'll only hurt yourself if you try to overtrain. Look out for these signs of overtraining: you have loss of appetite, have trouble sleeping, are tired for no apparent reason, and are gaining weight very slowly, if at all. If that's you, cut back on your training for better results.
Overtraining is basically done when you exercise for more than one hour, rendering the whole training ineffective.
If you want to go from underweight to muscular, you'll start out with bodyweight, full body exercises. These will burn fat and give you strength and coordination. That's true of weightlifting exercises, too.
Compound exercises, where you are moving two or more joints to complete the movement, are ideal. You can do deadlifts, squats, squat presses(incline, decline, flat), clean and jerks, pull ups and chin-ups, dips, and the military press.
I would forego the isolation exercises in the beginning. Later on you can add a few in at the end of a workout, if you have time left over. These would be exercises that tend to require one joint to complete the movement. Such as: bicep curls, tricep extensions, leg curs, leg extensions. The exception to this rule would be calf raises, I would recommend you do these on your leg day, if you are doing a split routine.
Of course, you can try to design your own workout to go from underweight to muscular, but why bother? It's already been done for you, so you shouldn't need to reinvent the wheel, in other words. Spend just a little money to get what you need with a proven program.
When you get this type of program, follow the program religiously at least at first. After you've gotten used to it, you can develop your own moves and styles to meet your goals.
If you want to go from skinny to muscular, you're going to have to have commitment and dedication. Diet is first, which means that you are going to have to start using a diet program that's going to help you become muscular both by increasing calories, and by consuming proper proportions of carbohydrates, fat and protein.
If you can't do this yourself, take a look at some diet and nutrition sites and choose a diet that would work for you. It's not guesswork, and you can do it correctly; it will work to follow it at least 90% of the time.
Don't make this any more difficult than it has to be. There are products out there that can give you what you want. Those who have developed these products have made your mistakes, know how to fix them, and will save you both time and money by keeping you from making those same mistakes over again.
Although it's tempting, you'll only hurt yourself if you try to overtrain. Look out for these signs of overtraining: you have loss of appetite, have trouble sleeping, are tired for no apparent reason, and are gaining weight very slowly, if at all. If that's you, cut back on your training for better results.
Overtraining is basically done when you exercise for more than one hour, rendering the whole training ineffective.
If you want to go from underweight to muscular, you'll start out with bodyweight, full body exercises. These will burn fat and give you strength and coordination. That's true of weightlifting exercises, too.
Compound exercises, where you are moving two or more joints to complete the movement, are ideal. You can do deadlifts, squats, squat presses(incline, decline, flat), clean and jerks, pull ups and chin-ups, dips, and the military press.
I would forego the isolation exercises in the beginning. Later on you can add a few in at the end of a workout, if you have time left over. These would be exercises that tend to require one joint to complete the movement. Such as: bicep curls, tricep extensions, leg curs, leg extensions. The exception to this rule would be calf raises, I would recommend you do these on your leg day, if you are doing a split routine.
Of course, you can try to design your own workout to go from underweight to muscular, but why bother? It's already been done for you, so you shouldn't need to reinvent the wheel, in other words. Spend just a little money to get what you need with a proven program.
When you get this type of program, follow the program religiously at least at first. After you've gotten used to it, you can develop your own moves and styles to meet your goals.
If you want to go from skinny to muscular, you're going to have to have commitment and dedication. Diet is first, which means that you are going to have to start using a diet program that's going to help you become muscular both by increasing calories, and by consuming proper proportions of carbohydrates, fat and protein.
If you can't do this yourself, take a look at some diet and nutrition sites and choose a diet that would work for you. It's not guesswork, and you can do it correctly; it will work to follow it at least 90% of the time.
Don't make this any more difficult than it has to be. There are products out there that can give you what you want. Those who have developed these products have made your mistakes, know how to fix them, and will save you both time and money by keeping you from making those same mistakes over again.
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