Q: hey mike i am nearly 15 years old i get bagged everyday at school cause i am too skinny i weigh 40 kgs and no matter how much fatty foods or watever i eat i dont budge is there any sort of routine that will make me have any muscles or be stronger cause even sum of my mates say that im too skinny, i dont have like a eating disorder or anything like that i just hate the way i am at the moment plz help

A: Sorry to hear about your trouble in school... At 15 it is possible that your body still hasn't hit the big growth stage (you didn't mention your height, but if you're less tall than your peers then that's another indicator that you haven't hit your growth spurt yet). But 40 kgs is certainly very light for a 15-year old in any case. The best advice I can give is to simply eat more and more often. I know you said you try to eat a lot of fatty foods, but unless you are actually following a schedule it is all too easy to miss meals or overestimate just how much you are eating. One very simple, tasty, and sure way to gain weight is to make sure you eat two large peanut butter and banana sandwiches -- take a slice of whole-wheat bread, spread natural peanut butter generously on it, slice a banana on top of peanut butter, and cover with another slice of bread. That's about 500 very nutritious calories right there. Have two such sandwiches every day (one in the morning, one in the afternoon) in addition to whatever else you normally eat. If even then you somehow manage to not gain weight, then add another such sandwich!

I assume you are already active, in which case you don't need to do anything else new besides eating to build muscle. If you are not very active, then you should consider playing sports and if you have access to equipment and adult supervision you can also start on weight training. If you do weights, please read my article carefully to learn the basics, make sure you have an adult supervise you, take time to learn exercises with light weights so you can perform them safely, and finally do NOT try to reach muscular failure until you're at least a couple years older -- you definitely don't want to injure yourself before you really started growing. Bust used safely with adult supervision and in parallel with a rich diet weight training will start building you some muscle. Good luck!