The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

How to gain weight and build muscle.

So you want to put on some lean muscle mass, and you want to do it within the context

of the primal blueprint, but aren't sure where to start. It's a common question, and it's about

time I addressed it head on. As I've made pretty clear, our ultimate goal is to achieve positive gene expression,

functional strength, optimum health, and extended longevity.

In other words, to make the most out of the particular gene set you inherited.

These are my end goals, and I've modeled the primal blueprint laws with them in mind. But that doesn't

mean packing on extra muscle can't happen with additional input. After I retired from a life of

chronic cardio and started living primally, I added 15 pounds of muscle, while keeping low body fat levels

without really trying.

So it's absolutely possible for a hard gainer to gain some.

The question is how much and at what expense?

I'd be the first to tell you that lean body mass is healthier than atapus tissue.

Generally, the more lean mass a person has, the longer

and better they live. But to increase mass at the expense of agility, strength, or speed is,

in my opinion, counterproductive. What would GROC do? Go for enormous biceps or the ability

to haul a carcass back to camp.

Unless you're a bodybuilder, nothing wrong with that, mind you, it's just not my focus.

I can't advise simply packing on size without a proportional increase in actual strength.

Those bulging biceps might look good at the beach, but then again, so does the body that comes with keeping up with the younger guys, knocking out 20 pull-ups in a row, and lifting twice your body weight.

Form is best paired with a heavy serving of function. The two are quite delicious together, and luckily, following the primal blueprint, allows us to get both without sacrificing either.

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