Hey, what's going on?
Tripp Kramer here from trippadvice.com.
Now listen, I don't normally talk about the topics of health or working out.
Obviously I'm not a fitness trainer and I don't claim to be in any sense.
But I do like discussing some of the things that have worked for me that do have an effect
and are correlated to attraction.
One thing I talk about (for example in my book Magnetic and I'll put a link down in
the description below if you want to get a copy of that) is the difference between inner
qualities and outer qualities.
Inner qualities is your behavior, your behavioral traits, the way that you act with someone
that's more of the inner stuff.
And then there's the outer stuff.
That is the way you look, that is your finances, that is your career.
That's your lifestyle, things like that.
You have inner qualities, you have outer qualities.
Both play a part in attraction and being a more attractive person and it does play apart
in dating.
I always say that inner qualities, your behavior goes a longer way in terms of getting a woman
attractive.
Of course, looking your best, feeling your best, working on the outer stuff.
Even style, that's one too.
Working on that stuff does help in terms of getting a woman attracted.
In terms of the outer qualities, you always want to be working on this stuff.
You always want to be working on this stuff all the time in terms of trying to look your
best, trying to feel your best, always working in your finances in your career, things like
that.
So on today's video, I want to share something with you that has worked for me.
This works for skinny guys so hello, if you're new to the channel and you're finding this
because you're looking for that information.
What I'm about to share with you did work for me and I know it's worked for other guys
and I want to share it with you.
Basically I have three tips.
And I know that you're looking at me and you're not a lot like Tripp is this jacked guy.
He's like really big.
I know you still see me and I'm skinny, but let me explain something.
Before this video so right now I am 155 pounds.
Before I would say about 5 years ago and I'm cringing saying this, but this is true.
I was 127 pounds.
Now the reason why I was able to gain from 127 to 155 (there's a story behind it and
we'll go into it) let's just say from 127 all the way to about 140.
I just started to eat breakfast.
There was a time in my life when I just was so focused.
It was like I was doing intermittent fasting the way that people are doing it now.
Bit it's not something I believe one should do if they're already kind of underweight.
I just woke up and got right to work and I wouldn't focus on food or anything until lunchtime.
Basically I was skipping breakfast and that was keeping me at a very low weight.
Then I started eating breakfast and naturally I started gaining weight because I added more
calories into my diet and I just did that without barely any working out at all.
That's not really the tip that I'm getting.
We're gonna get into how I gained some of the harder weight.
Then I got to around 140 cause I started to work out a little bit more and then I completely
plateaued because honestly I wasn't doing anything for a while.
So how did I get from 140 all the way to 155?
That's what I'm going to be sharing with you today in terms of what worked.
The reason why I'm so excited to share with you is because I'm one of those guys who would
be considered, what are the terms hard gainer, fast metabolism, things like that.
By the way, I'm 35 so you would think and people people used to say to me all the time
Tripp don't worry.
Don't try to gain weight, you'll get there, your metabolism will slow down when you hit
30 and then it will work for you.
But that didn't work for me and if you're a skinny guy watching this, you might be going
through the same thing.
Anyone who is a hard gainer, fast metabolism type of dude, that's me.
Meaning like, you can eat a bunch of food and nothing really happens too much.
But here is where things changed.
Here's where, and I know this has taken a while to get to this point, I apologize.
But here's the 3 things I did that worked that gained this weight.
It was not easy.
It was not easy, but nothing is.
It took some time, but this is what I did.
First what I did was, I tracked my calories.
I thought let me see how much I'm eating in a day.
Let me see how much I'm actually doing.
And I started eating and recording down what I'd eat for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner,
what snacks I had.
I started counting my calories and they were only about 1500 calories a day.
Sometimes less sometimes like 1250 and it was crazy cuz I was like wow, I thought I
was eating a lot more.
So in reality when I think I'm eating a lot, I'm really not.
And I bet if you're one of those hard gainers skinny people like myself, the ectomorph body.
If you're one of those guys, track your calories.
I bet you're not eating as much as you think you are.
And the thing is, in order to gain weight, you need to eat more calories.
You need to be eating a surplus of calories.
You need to be eating more than the energy that you're expending.
I don't want to go too deep into the science of it because I'll be honest, I don't know
too much about it.
I'm not a fitness trainer.
I'm not a health coach or anything like that.
I teach dating advice.
But this is stuff that I learned again that I want to share with you.
So I did learn that I was eating very low calories.
What was next?
Well I had to increase my calories.
If you know better than anyone you might be relating to this, for a skinny guy, we get
full easily.
It's hard for us to take in a lot of calories, we maybe don't eat as much as we think we
do.
Maybe you're skinny because you're eating very healthy and most healthy foods have very
low calories.
What you need to do is you need to figure out a way to get more into your diet.
Tip number one is you can start to use liquid calories.
This is what helped me tremendously.
This is gonna sound insane, but it worked.
Every day (minus maybe one day, so like 6 days a week, sometimes 7 days a week) I was
drinking a shake and it was a 1300 calorie shake.
Mind you, it took me about an hour and a half, sometimes two hours to finish it.
I would have that every single morning and it was just powder and water.
That's it and it was a more of a natural powder.
It only had 5 ingredients in it and most of it was carbs and protein and a decent amount
of sugar I have to say.
It wasn't super healthy but it wasn't the worst in terms of being filled with chemicals
and processed stuff.
It was whey protein.
It was 1300 calories that I was taking in and ingesting every single morning.
I did this for I'd say about 4 to 5 months.
I was doing this mostly every day.
There were some times when I took a few days off because I had to go travel or do something
like that.
But I was batting about 97%.
So I was drinking this and it was hard to drink because it's heavy but it was way easier
to do that then take in 1300 calories of food.
I would drink that in the morning (and I'll get get into working out in a second) I would
drink that in the morning and then as the day went on, I found myself getting hungry
still.So it's not like I drink this 1300 calorie shake and people are mind blown when I tell
them that.
They're like whoa, that's insane.
You must have been so full and all this stuff with so many calories.
No like actually you find yourself by the afternoon being fairly hungry especially if
you're working out by the way.
I found myself hungry and I would eat a normal lunch and then I would start having snacks.
So slowly I would start building more habits so it's not like I was doing this all at once.
I built in the habits of the shake every morning and then having lunch which I was already
doing, that was already habitual then adding in snacks, and then having making sure dinner
which was habitual but then after dinner having more snacks because before that I gained this
those 1500 pounds, I was not eating anything after dinner.
Maybe a small bite of dessert.
But that was pretty much it.
I'd be having that shake, lunch, snacks, then dinner and then snacks.
I'm not going to go and break down exactly what I was eating.
There's lots of things out that you can eat.
Try to stay healthier.
Obviously I wasn't eating crap all day.
I would try to eat like turkey, nuts.
I was trying to eat more whole grain things.
I was trying to eat more sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes.
I was not pigging out on fast food or trying to ingest much more sugar than I already was
from that shake.
I was keeping it relatively healthy.
I'll admit there were some times when I got lazy and I just wanted to have a full pizza
that I could just sit there and eat like a frozen pizza which is not healthy at all but
it gave me my calories.
And my point is I started getting to around 3000 calories per day, at the worst 2500.
And that is what started to shift it and I started to see myself gaining weight slowly,
slowly.
And by the way, just understand that this is a marathon and not a sprint.
It does take a while of building these habits and getting in there.
But the hard gainer I always thought I was, started to slowly gain weight.
And tip number two is I had a workout program.
One that worked for me.
Some popular ones on the internet are like PPL, which is push pull legs.
Which is every day you're doing either pushing push exercises or pull exercises or legs.
Don't skip leg day.
So PPL, that's something you can use if you're a skinny guy.
It's pretty simple.
All you need is is a very basic gym membership and you can have everything there.
It's a mixture of free weights and machines.
I just did a very basic program, nothing crazy and just started to do that and increase my
weight over time.
If I could do a certain amount of reps and I completed it, that means that I would add
more weight.
So you're increasing weight over time.
I just followed that simple program.
There's so many out there on the internet.
My third tip for you is consistency.
This has to be habitual and you have to continue to do it.
You cannot just do this for a month and workout.
You'll gain some weight but you won't gain that massive weight.
If you want to gain some serious weight, you need to add in more calories.
Easiest way to do that is liquids.
Two, you need to have a workout program that you're working out minimum 3 times per week.
You got to make sure that you're really pounding your muscles to the ground.
And that you're able to build more muscle through taking in all those calories and all
that protein.
Side note, this is something that I'm going to try to work on for my next round, is you
got to take in a lot of protein.
That wasn't something I was doing.
I wasn't necessarily getting fat.
I don't think I gained 15 pounds of fat.
I think it was a mixture of fat and muscle.
But you have to understand that I needed to put in more protein and that's the next thing
I'm working on.
Meaning I'm going to try to work on putting more much more protein in my diet to build
the muscle even faster.
And then making sure it's consistent.
If you're not consistent, it won't work.
Part of this third tip I have for you in terms of consistency is you have to make sure think
about it on a weekly basis.
All right.
If you do crappy in one day and you don't eat enough food.
When I say crappy it's like you're not eating enough food, it's just a day that you're super
busy or you're anxious or whatever and you can only get in 2000 calories instead of the
normal 2500 or 3000, that's okay.
But you got to make up for it on some of the following days.
That's the whole thing about being consistent here.
If you're not taking in a certain amount of calories throughout the week and you have
some days where it just doesn't work, like a cheat day for a guy who's trying to gain
weight.
It might be like not eating as much, it's gonna be harder throughout the week because
you're gonna have to add more calories in on other days.
Think of it as a weekly average in terms of how many calories you're putting in.
But I wouldn't try to say I'm gonna just screw off today and not drink the shake or whatever
because it's gonna be a lot harder on that other day so make sure you're consistent.
I'm telling you again, I'm not a fitness coach, I'm not a health coach.
I know that.
There's so many other guys who talk about this stuff on YouTube.
But this did work for me.
I know it works for other people.
And as a fellow skinny guy to all other skinny guys out there, skinny guy problems.
I wanted to help you out and share this video.
If you want to learn more about the things that you can do to optimize your outer qualities,
the things in terms of health, fitness, finance, things like that.
I have a program called the Irresistible Academy, which you can check out.
It's a 12 month program where I interview experts who are going to talk about all the
different areas of creating an irresistible lifestyle.
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The 12 month program walks you step by step in terms of building all the areas of your
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I hope this works.
Comment down below.
I'm sure you will be.
I know this is not the typical video that I usually do but I want to put some stuff
out like this that's worked for me.
Leave a comment down below and let me know if you like this video and want me to put
out more content of things that have worked for me that still of course relate to being
attractive and dating, but not necessarily about directly sex, relationships and dating.
Let me know in the comments down below and I'll see you on the next video.