27-03-2025, 10:34
I have full experience with mass gainers! I used to be quite underweight naturally no matter how much I ate I couldn't put on weight, this was back when I was like 19ish years old, I went on a "weight gain journey" back then eating protein bars and mass gainer shakes, this helped me pack on the weight bringing me to a very healthy but curvy weight(back then), the myth is that these will somehow make you muscular but it's just that, a myth lol you can't become muscular if you don't work out or don't already have that structure inbuilt into your genetics, I was always very petite boned and didn't work out whilst taking it and just gained weight from it
so don't worry! You won't be a bodybuilder haha. It's good stuff if you need or want the weight gain, just keep in mind you can't always make the fat go where you want, this is partly genetics but also your hormone profile's doing. Yes your body can only absorb so much protein all at once, what usually happens if protein is taken in excess is the extra that isn't utilised will be stored as fat hence the "mass" gainer title. Bodybuilders use this during the "bulking" phase which is where they actually want to gain fat, because they then go onto the "cutting" phase which is working on turning that extra bulk into extra muscle.
