How to put on fat for football season?

Question

OK, I'm going to playing football this year. I am 16, 6 foot 10inches, and weigh about 120. My coach says I need to put on some weight. Over the summer, I have tried working out, and I got little to no improvement. With the season coming up fast, I need a way to put on weight quickly and cheaply. I've tried the bars and some other methods, but they didn't work. I weigh about 125 when school started the other week. Because of the league im going into, my choach says I need to be at least 160 or more. The position my coach has open is a defensive position, so I need to bulk up fast, so I dont miss out playing this year. Working out to gain muscle won't be fast enough to secure my position on the team. Coach says I have 4 weeks, before he has to give away the position.

For putting on fat I know the risks and concequences, and I'm willing to accept them, so I can have fun this season and bring home to gold. So please any recipes that I can make at home would really help. Thanks

Answer 1

get some protein shake at the grocery store and drink it every night, plus work out and take second helping on all of your food! my cousins are football players and they are massive haah.  

Answer 2

You shouldn't be playing football.  You should be playing hockey.  You could be the stick.

Answer 3

in my opinion, eat chipotle every time you can, and keep working out

Answer 4

6 foot 10 inches and 120 pounds?

You should give up on football and go straight to basketball, provided you don't break in half the first time someone sets a pick...

Are you LSUBalls here on Yahoo Answers?

Oh sorry, to answer your question....

eat a lot of moon pies.

Answer 5

5ft 10?

Make eating your job.  Get up early, eat a bagel w/ cream cheese or peanut butter, a bowl of cereal, a piece of fruit, and a glass of juice.  two hours later, have some oatmeal.  Two hours after that have a sandwich for lunch.  load it up.  ... you get the idea.

Eat something every two hours, it will keep you packed full, lift alot, and when you run, don't do long distance, do interval training - run hard for a minute, take 1 minute really slow, 1 minute hard, one slow.  it will build endurance and prevent the upper body muscle breakdown associated with long distance running.  Don't eat moon pies.  Eat a bunch of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc.  General rule of thumb is, if you can't pronounce something on the label, don't eat it.  If its processed, don't eat it.  If anything is "enriched," thats bc they treated it w/ so many chemicals that anything nutritious was stripped out to get the desired flavor/texture, and they added nutrients back in.  Lots of carbs, protein, and fat, don't focus on just one.  And when you lift, eat a high protein food before or immediately after, otherwise it won't get into your body quick enough to contribute to the protein synthesis.

"For putting on fat I know the risks and concequences, and I'm willing to accept them"

-no, you apparently don't.  If you put on 40 lbs of fat really quickly, you would be a fat slob of a 160lb kid.  You would get stretch marks all over your torso and shoulders from the weight gain.  And, worst of all, you would have terrible endurance, your agility would be awful, and you would not see the field.  

do it the right way, eat a bunch of good for you food all day long, and workout like a madman.  If you started eating 6000 calories a day of nutritious food a few months ago and working out alot, you would be at 150 by now atleast.

also, when you lift, don't do isolaton exercises.  isolations are for bodybuilders, not athletes.  When in football are you going to do a seated quadricep extension, or a cable tricep extension?  almost never.  but squatting and pushups are compound moves - they include a bunch of major groups, so its realistic.  this also increases your workout, gets more testosterone flowing.  when you lift, do it with about 80% of your 1 rep max.  if you do lighter weights, the strongest fast twitch muscle fibers won't be activated, and since they have the most growth potential you won't put on any size.  

in my opinion, gain 40 lbs in a month, and it won't be lean mass, and you won't be able to move effectively.  you need to do it over time and lift smart.  Theres always next season.

Answer 6

Eat lots and lots of protein!  Shakes, bars, and tons of food.  Take protein right before you go to bed!  Good luck

Answer 7

As far as caloric intake, try some protein drinks or supplements like Ensure twice a day along with a good, healthy meal.  It will give you the extra nutrients the body needs.  Do some extra lifting and sit-ups to strengthen and increase your muscles.  Also add a few more carbohydrates... they break down in your system faster than proteins

so that the proteins can be retained longer in your body to help build more muscle tissue.

Answer 8

Your body type may not let you gain right now.

BUT

I would eat big sausages, eggs, grits, toast and a shake for breakfast.

Eat anything and everything for lunch at school, then get 2 or 3 ice creams with milk products.

Eat some fried supper with mash potatoes, rice, and lots of butter.

Before you go to bed eat 2 stouffers pizza's and a milk shake.

I did the protein shakes and they really did nothing for me. It was the late night foods and eat a HUGE GONZO breakfast. Breakfast is a biggy because you burn breakfast up before lunch. So if you do not eat breakfast you are burning yesterdays meals.

Then there is right before bed. You do not burn right before bed. So it is important to make this a big fatty meal.

OH

Try not to exercise any more than the coaches ask for. Even then you might loaf a little. You cannot be in bad shape. And you cannot get much faster than you are now.

So concentrate on bulk. Might lift weights in a 6 sets of 7  range. Do dips, bench, flys and squats. Forget anything else if you can. Concentrate on these core lifts for maximum muscle gain.

Answer 9

I'm going to guess you're actually 5-10 and not 6-10. It's simple. Forget the protein shakes and what not. Have your mom buy a big jar of your favorite peanut butter, a couple of gallons of whole milk and whichever bread you like. Eat 2 sandwiches for breakfast, then again when you get home from school or practice in the afternoon and again later after you do your homework. Chase it with a cold glass of the whole milk. Maintain whatever weight training regimen you have and you'll see more weight come on in a few weeks. It's probably the least expensive of the options. Also consider for weekends loading up on big breakfasts (omelets hash browns, french toast). The big thing to remember is you can carry another 30-40 pounds easily depending on your frame at your current weight.

And if you are 6-10, you REALLY need to put extra cheese on lots of stuff.

Answer 10

I'm like you too.  I am tall, but very, well, weightless.