You can find hundreds of articles online or in magazines on how to avoid the off season weight gain. This post will address none of that and instead focus on how to gain mass during the off season. Here are some simple rules on how to increase your off season weight.

1. Reward yourself: For anything… no matter how small, you’ve earned it.

2. Increase the number of times you eat per day: Don’t make any meals smaller, just try to eat one or more of the same sized meals per day. You can even try to have a meal of purely chocolate.

3. Donuts: Join the co-workers for a few. For a healthy work environment, competing with your coworkers is always beneficial, so why try to have a donut eating contest at work?

4. Get cable: there is no better way or excuse to plant yourself on the couch for endless hours of no activity.

5. Surf the web more often: It brought you to read this article, didn’t it? Sitting on you’re a$$ will only help to slow down your metabolic rate (unless you are getting excited about power meter posts).

6. Alcohol: preferably beer.

7. Add extras to your favorite caffeinated drinks: Double-doubles, triple-triples… frappacinos… you get it.

8. All you can eat buffets: this is a great chance to eat things that you would have never ordered off the menu in the first place, like chicken balls or cheesecake and blueberry pie (i.e. double dessert helpings)

9. Slurpees: These sugar drinks are simple but an effective way to gain weight. Please take caution, as slurpee headaches are exceptionally painful.

10. Anything worth eating is worth eating deep fried.