hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be talking about the top 10
foods to help you gain weight for athletes i'm going to start the video right now
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alright so i know this isn't a typical topic that i talk about but i did do a video probably about
a year ago that was about just gaining weight for athletes and and i still get a lot of engagement a
lot of comments a lot of people asking questions on that video so i thought i would go ahead
and make a video here that goes more into some specific foods to help you gain weight and i know
you know this isn't something that we're typically talking about most people are like
how do i lose weight right how do i you know cut off fat how do i get rid of any additional
weight but i know for younger athletes i had this issue as well when you're 14 15 years old there's
some guys especially when you're playing football that are just so much bigger uh and so it's about
how can i gain weight how could i be that type of size and a lot of it goes into nutrition the thing
that i love about nutrition overall is that it's pretty black and white right there's some degree
of difference between you know genetics and you know one person might have a faster metabolism
slower metabolism bigger bones things like that but at the end of the day when it comes to calorie
consumption and food consumption you're able to get a lot of control of what your results
are based off of what you're putting in your body so if you're continually skinny right if you're
continually trying to eat a lot and not really seeing the right results it could be because of
the foods that you're eating and so we want to go into what foods are going to help you gain weight
and really the big thing is going to be fat so you know and these are in no particular order by the
way like this is not like okay this is the number one food you should be eating uh they're all just
like recommendations for what you can start to add to your diet to make it so you're putting on more
weight and more importantly it's like how can you put on the right type of weight right if you're a
receiver you're not trying to put on 20 pounds of fat and make it so you end up playing linebacker
or something like that you want to still play the same position but it's about how can you put on
muscle in size and be a bigger overall person and these foods will help you do that so
first one's going to be avocado i think and like guacamole things like that that's a great source
again that's a fat right and when you eat the fats are not what are going to make you fat they really
make it so you kind of slow down the process of how you're digesting your foods and makes
it so it's a little bit easier for your body to stay full and stay it makes it easier for
your body to actually digest more the proteins and carbohydrates actually so uh same thing with the
you know peanut butters or nuts nut butter almond butter almonds things like that pistachios those
are another great source of fat that is going to allow you to like when i'm going and i'm working
and i have a lot going on not even able to eat i just have bags of nuts that i'm always just
constantly consuming just because it makes it so you're not really hungry and it's a great snack
it's super easy snack you could have peanut butter with celery you know there's a lot of great things
you could have that could be really resourceful for you and you know you do want to it's not like
this list is going to be mostly foods that are not carbs right because obviously carbs
are going to help you gain weight but i think that's more of like the wrong type of weight
you do want to continue to eat carbs though which are more of like the fruits and the vegetables and
you know like healthy rice um you know grains things like that are going to be good to help you
gain weight but it's not like the that's something that i think people are always eating right you
don't want to have a bunch of pasta as an athlete and put on that type of weight or a bunch of white
rice or you know things like that are not going to help you put on the weight to be a better athlete
that's going to help you put on the weight that's going to make it so again you slow down
not as athletic your body is not working correctly right if you're if you put in the right foods
now you're going to be able to really get a lot out of your workouts and your training and and
mental capacity when you're at school like all that stuff is super important that's
why i'm really matters a lot to me what i put into my body because i have to have
a lot of energy i have to be very motivated i have to be able to show up every day and put in
a lot of hours i can't be tired i can't be sluggish and if i eat bad foods and i or i
you know don't drink good things that makes it so i end up being sluggish and slow down and not
have the energy to be able to really show up for you guys show up for myself and and be able to
help next thing is going to be greek yogurt this is another fat that is really good there's a lot
of yogurts out there that are not good for you so greek yogurt is a great source of again it helps
with your digestion and it's a really good uh helpful food another one is eggs there's so much
that's good in eggs it's protein you know there's vitamins in the yolk there's cholesterol there's a
lot of things that that will help you out there i would say you know there are some people that talk
about how you should only have egg whites i would say the whole yolk especially if you're trying to
gain weight if you're a younger athlete it's not you know there are some bad things there are some
things that could be you know over consumed within the egg yolk but at the end of the day uh travel
the whole egg yolk have or have the whole egg and it really makes a good a big difference of being
able to help you add weight overall another one sweet potato again you know this is something that
you know there's a lot of different types of potatoes right if you could eat the right type of
food here if you eat the right type of yogurt if you eat the right type of potatoes if you eat the
right type of you know meats and cheeses cottage cheese is another one that's another great way
to be able to help you and gain weight and some of these foods might not be you know the best
tasting right it's not always about eating cake and ice cream and things that taste good you know
reese's pieces all that type of stuff like yeah i get it they taste good it's hard to
not like but eventually i get to a point like for myself i've trained myself like when i see cake
like i don't like i don't want there's no part of me that wants to eat cake i don't want to eat
ice cream i don't want to eat those things it just doesn't like seem good to me it it almost is like
because of how much i'm working towards you know my goals with sprinting and being able to be
strong and fast and and be able to jump high all those things like i put too much time and energy
and effort into my body and building my body up that the things that will take me and make it so i
take a step back are a lot less attractive overall so you know try to train yourself to even though
the foods might not always taste good right you could be creative to make it so they taste better
for one and for two you got to be able to make a bit of a sacrifice right this is not something
that you're going to just always be easy right you have to kind of look for things that's like
well it's going to be a little bit more difficult but like i'll put myself through the average
person will put themselves through that and you know over a long period of time i'll get better
results for instance this youtube channel right not a lot of people are going to go and every
single day try to get in front of the camera help you guys out put in that the time the energy the
effort to be able to help athletes be able to improve their performance improve their bodies
make it so they have a better understanding of how to stay healthy how to perform better but you know
over a sustained period of time by being able to do that i'll be able to help more athletes and
be able to actually build a great channel which i think we've been able to do so far so same type of
concept when it comes to eating better if you can separate yourself if you could be in the top one
percent then do it right like challenge yourself do something that makes you uncomfortable if
you don't like cottage cheese then you know like how many how about you want to gain weight um
or be get creative right so uh olives is another good one i know i keep on going on these tangents
here but the point is is we have to be able to understand the importance of nutrition in order to
be able to gain weight next one is red meats right you got to be able to and i get it some people are
going to be vegan here so i don't want to overstep the boundaries there but it is great source of
helping you improve your ability to gain muscle um it's a great source of iron it helps you
in um really retaining a lot more overall size you know like and don't eat you know
when you say red meats ground beef and ground turkey are i mean turkey's obviously not red
meat but ground beef isn't not great right you want to have more of like the the actual pure
steak and not grounded up beef next one dark chocolate you know that's something that i eat
all the time i have that with blueberries you know again these these fats here are something that you
could easily eat with fruits with vegetables and it makes it so it's such a healthy snack for you
and can help you in gaining weight and that's the thing too is like eat more right like if you
are 135 pounds then you're eating like somebody that's 135 pounds maybe 145 pounds you have a fast
metabolism but you're not eating like somebody that is 185 190 you know those that type of weight
so if you want to be able to gain weight i learned this myself you know the reason i tell you this is
because i went through that process where it was like i started eating with linemen and realized
like man these guys eat so much more food than i do like this is why they're 300 pounds and so i
started eating a lot and now i still i have such a big appetite i eat so much food but i just try to
eat really healthy foods so i don't gain a bunch of weight instead it turns into muscle makes it so
i'm strong makes it so fast maybe so i could jump and so again you want to be able to consume more
food right like if you are looking to gain weight the fact of the reality is you gotta eat more so
these foods here are gonna be the healthy way for you to be able to gain weight and make it
so you know you're not putting on more weight or eating more of bad foods okay but you have
to start eating more have more meals at your meals eat more like actually get uncomfortable
with how much food you're eating when you're done at the end of the day you should almost be tired
because of how much food you ate or more so than from all the things that you did through the day
okay so if i was trying to gain weight that's what i would do i'd be eating some i've gotten up to
195 200 pounds and it's like i was eating five six meals a day big meals and and eating with lime and
getting uncomfortable and that's how i got up to 200 pounds right now i said around 180 185
last one is just eating like fish salmon tilapia tuna i have scallops all the time they're high in
protein those are that's kind of an expensive thing but a point is you know eating that type
of fish is is a great has omegas in it you know another healthy part of you know being able to
build all the things that you want within your body to make it so your body's sustainable your
body's healthy because you're not going to be able to put weight on if your body's unhealthy
if you're malnutritioned if you're lacking certain vitamins if you're not getting the right amount of
training if you're not hydrated you know your body's going to respond in a uncontrolled way
if you don't take care of yourself correctly so you want to take a good understanding of like
how could i you know be at the my peak performance what vitamins you know make sure you have
for men you have to have plenty of magnesium you know you have to have iron you have to have
all the different vitamins and so you know if you're if you're deficient in one of those
it can make a difference on how well you're able to gain weight and how your digestive
system works and or how your whole overall system works and if your system's not working correctly
it's harder to actually take control of what the results are going to be so just something
to take note of there um you know there are a lot of like multivitamins that you could
go to the grocery store and get and they have a lot of things that you need
to be able to actually get to that level but i like to do it the natural way i have you know my
greens in the morning i you know i'm always eating fruits i have healthy snacks you know i'd rather
be natural than unnatural but if you need to go to the grocery store and have the multivitamins
and things like that then by all means do it and then i added a little pro a little bonus
one as well just like protein shakes and milk i didn't think that that would really constitute his
foods um you know milk you drink it so it's definitely not a food but milk is important
right and and i know a lot of people have issues with lactose and so if you if you're in that
category then you know get something that doesn't have as much lactose but
um a lot of people that i know that are bigger guys drink a lot of milk okay so you got to be
able to drink milk protein shakes as well that's a great way for you to be able to gain weight
again it's better to have more natural foods but you know i know a lot of you guys are at school
right so you have to have some degree or some way of making it so you're just like not hungry
all the time so you know you want to be able to actually fulfill that hunger and that's
the point you want to get to where it's like if you're if you eat breakfast like two three
hours later you should be hungry okay if you're not hungry after two three hours and you're just
not eating very much okay you're not eating enough gets back to that thing so make sure you're eating
plenty of meals a day um have protein shakes especially if you're 14 15 like you've got to be
having something during the day to make it so you can sustain growth within your body your
body always wants to be growing always wants to be putting in muscle and then when you're
working out you know you got to add resistance you got to work out hard like you got to make it so
your body is you know your muscles are tearing and they're growing you know you need those
everything to be happening in your body to be able to actually put on the muscle and the size that
you're looking for right you can change the diet make it so the diet's better but if you're not
pushing yourself in the weight room or not pushing yourself on the field or with your workouts then
you're still not going to be able to get that same size that same muscle that same tone that you're
looking for so you know with this you should be getting more energy from eating more foods good
food so you should be able to push yourself harder in the weight room add more weight get
uncomfortable with the weight you know make it so you go and and max out you know five or six times
in this offseason to make it so you could really put yourself in a position to you know gain 15
20 pounds it's a possible thing for a lot of you guys it's just going to take a you know different
level of effort we're starting off 2022 i think this is a great time to make a video like this
and in order to actually get the improvement that you're looking for you gotta be able to
step outside of your comfort zone and i hope a lot of you guys can do that i know you can do it right
i hope that a lot of you will do it because i know you have the the strength and the power and the
mental capacity to do it uh we just sometimes need a little push so if you guys want to reach out to
me talk to me if you have any questions would be happy to help you out any way that i can i'm on
this journey with you uh every single day you know trying to control my weight trying to control what
goes in my body i make mistakes too i don't want to make it seem like i've never had cake or never
had or never get any type of virgins i have urges all the time to eat those types of things as well
i just have to manage it and i've been able to manage it where now it's a lot easier for me but
i understand when that comes into play and and some things that you could possibly do to be able
to stay away from that i know this is kind of a longer video than what i typically make already so
i don't want to go too much into all the tangents and all the different side tracks and all that
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