Short video by former college football player Trenton Luera giving a high-level overview of how recruits should gain weight. He emphasizes that gaining weight requires a caloric surplus, critiques common excuses (e.g., “high metabolism”), and promotes a free two-page guide available via his Instagram.
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If you're a recruit trying to gain weight, this is exactly how to do it the right way. And this is coming from a former college football player who struggled to gain weight throughout his career. Now I'm going to break it down from a high level overview in this video, but if you want a detailed step by step breakdown, I wrote a two page doc that you can get for free. All you have to do is go to my Instagram and DM me weight on there and I'll send it to you for free. So in simplest terms, how you gain weight is just by eating more. The issue is not many people know how much more to eat, how much food you actually do need to eat. They just go off a feeling. They say, oh yeah, I'm eating more. I'm, I'm totally eating more. Why am I not gaining weight? I can't gain weight, my metabolism is too high. All these excuses that we make to ourselves all the time. And don't get me wrong, I did the same thing. Now, not to get too scientific, but the whole idea of gaining weight is you need to be in a caloric surplus. If you haven't been paying attention to health class. Calories is the energy units that we use to track, like how much energy you're spending and how much energy you're gaining into your body cal. So for example, if you go to football practice, you might lose somewhere from 200 calories to 500 calories. I don't really know the number.