For naturally thin body types, overtraining is a risk, which is why it is important to employ specially designed workouts that don’t entail too much lifting.

Excessive training is more likely to detract from improvements rather than the opposite. If you feel that you are overtraining (look out for loss of sleep, loss of appetite, unexplained fatigue, unintended weight loss, and very slow or non-existent gains in poundage), then you need to cut back on your training schedule.

Overtraining is most likely done when you train for more than one hour, rendering all the hard work useless.

The best exercises to get you from skinny to muscular will be full body, bodyweight exercises to start with. These will give you strength and coordination and burn fat. The same goes for weight lifting exercises. The big compound exercises, where you are moving 2 or more joints to complete the movement. Examples would be:

* Clean & Jerks
* Squats
* Deadlifts
* Squat Presses
* Bench Press (flat, incline, decline)
* Dips
* Pull ups – Chin ups
* Military press

I would forego the isolation exercises in the beginning. Later on you can add a few in at the end of a workout, if you have time left over. These would be exercises that tend to require one joint to complete the movement. Such as:

* Bicep curls
* Tricep extensions
* leg curs
* Leg extensions

The exception to this rule would be calf raises, I would recommend you do these on your leg day, if you are doing a split routine.

So, how do you design a workout routine to get you from skinny to muscular? I would say, why reinvent the wheel? Cut loose with a couple of bucks and get a proven program that will teach you.

Stick to the routine and be the best student possible. Slight changes made to the routine is welcomed for your own benefit, but it would be best to do this after you have learned more about the initial program.
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The two most important ingredients to transform a skinny body to muscles is forbearance and devotion to the goal. Your diet will be number one. You will need to design a diet plan, or have one designed for you, that will increase your caloric intake just enough to get you to your desired goal. The diet will have to take into consideration the proper proportion of protein, carbohydrates and fat.

If you can’t do this by yourself, then it might be best to visit some of the nutrition sites and choose one that you think is best for you.

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