Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

Gain weight as an athlete

6 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief coaching segment, the speaker addresses athletes facing the summer recruitment season, emphasizing that while height cannot be altered, weight can be strategically managed to stand out on scouting lists. Two actionable recommendations are offered: first, adopt a training regimen focused on strength, power, and explosiveness rather than traditional bodybuilding, to build functional muscle suitable for athletic performance; second, eliminate meal skipping by consuming at least three solid meals and two to three snacks daily, ensuring sufficient caloric and protein intake to support weight and muscle gain before tournaments and camps.

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Summertime is a huge recruitment period. You're gonna have tournaments, you're gonna have camps. When you go there, you're gonna be just a name on a list. They're gonna have your age, they're gonna have your height, and you're gonna have your weight. Now you can't control your height, obviously, but you can control your weight. And if that's something that you're worried about setting you apart, here's two things that you can change. One thing to start doing, you gotta make sure that you're training right. Don't train like a bodybuilder. You wanna be training for strength and power and explosiveness. One thing that you need to stop doing, you gotta stop skipping meals. You need to make sure that you're having at least 3 meals and 2 to 3 snacks a day to even give yourself a chance. At gaining weight and muscle before those important periods.