Originally posted by Goonie
The best way to put on what would be to build muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat. So to put on muscle you need to work out and eat lots of carbs to feed the muscles. Get some weights to lift to build your upper body weight. Do sit ups, and push ups. The best suggestion I can give you is to bike. I would suggest mountain biking as it is more enjoyable but road biking will do. biking will build enormous muscles in your legs that will help you with hiking and put on weight.
Originally posted by Goonie
49208. You can feed yourself protein, but you only need 1 gram of protein for every kilogram in your body, therefore eating more protein will do nothing for you as it will only be removed from your body while you pee.
Muscles DO need carbs. Muscles need the glycogen. When you eat carbs, your body breaks the Carbohydrate polymers into monomers(ex. glucose) through dehydration synthesis. When cells are full of glucose, it stops accepting it. The body then takes the monomers and performs the reverse of dehydration synthesis and again makes polymers called glycogen. The Glycogen is then stored in your muscles. That glycogen will provide you with what energy you need while sailing, biking ect...
Also, take one square metre of fat, and one square meter of muscle. The muscle will weigh more. It is denser than fat.