5 Exercises To Help You Gain Healthy Weight

While most of the global population today is obsessed with losing weight, there are some people for whom gaining weight is a challenge. People with a skinny and frail body structure or fast metabolism can find it difficult to gain body weight and for such individuals even a few pounds can bring about a great difference. People with too low body weight can suffer from various health issues like bone density loss, organ damage and lack of menstruation in women. Here are a few simple exercises to gain weight at home without using any complicated piece of equipment. The best thing is that these exercises can be done by both men and women.

* Squats

Stand with your feet placed shoulder-width apart and raise your arms in front or keep them behind your head. Now, lower your body by pushing your hips back and bending the knees. Look straight in front keeping your chest up and back flat. Squat down as low as you can and then pop up to the starting position by pushing through the heels.

* Push Ups

Place your arms on the ground, hands placed slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Lower your chest till it almost touches the floor, squeeze your glutes and keep your abs tight as you lower your body and then raise it with the support of your arms. Keep your elbows close to the sides of your body.

* Walking lunges

Being in a standing position keeping your feet hip-width apart, now, take a big step forward and bend your keen at 90 degree and come down to a lunging position, now rise up and take another step forward by bending the other knee at 90 degrees. Continue to move forward till you are fatigued. It is undoubtedly one of the best leg exercises for bulking up.

* Tricep Dips

Sit at the edge of a chair or bench and hold the edges with your hands. Now, come forward, move out from the seat and lower your butt towards the floor and hold the posture by keeping the pressure on the heels of your hands and then return to the sitting position. Repeat 2 to 3 sets of this exercise for best results.

* Pull-ups

Hold a pull-up bar with both hands using an overhand grip. Place your hands shoulder width apart and let our body hand freely. Now, pull yourself up with the help of your arms till the chin crosses over the bar and then lower your body back to the starting position. One you master the classic pull up you can increase the difficulty level you including weights.