Hardgainer Fundamental Tips

Released on: July 20, 2008, 11:41 am

Press Release Author: Helder Luis

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: Fundamental tips all hardgainers should know to reach their
goals

Press Release Body: Being a former skinny hardgainer, i know how hard it is to gain
muscle, i know how frustrating it can be to spend sometimes years giving it all,
reading all that you can get, following all the training methods you come across,
and at the end you look almost like you haven´t trained. The worst part is, it's not
all you fault, it's not all about genetics, first of all you have been mislead,
nobody ever told you how you should train as a hardgainer, nobody told how to eat,
most of the sources you searched, were only concerned about selling you lots of
supplements and taking your money away. I'm going to give you some Hardgainer
Fundamental Tips, and if you follow them, you'll see results, they're simple to
follow, it's probably different than what you've been reading, but open your mind
and change, it's stupid to keep doing what you've been doing with no results.

1- This is one of the most fundamental tips, burn all the bodybuilding magazines you
have and never read any of them again, i mean NEVER. Why? Because you should keep
lies away from you, those articles and workouts are not meant for any natural
trainee, it's all hype and lies, those workouts you see in the magazines are good
for steroid users, for those stupid bodybuilders who ruin their health to became
bloated and freak looking, if you keep doing those workouts all you'll ever get is
Overtrained.

2- Don't ever take steroids, you wanna die? shoot yourself in the head it's quicker.
You should train to be healthy, sports are about being healthy, you have to think
about having a healthy balanced lifestyle, don't live in the gym, don't think about
training all the time, live your Life, be Healthy, besides why would you want to
have a steroid body look, bloated, with no aesthetics whatsover, bones deformed, yes
deformed, look at their big heads and chins, is that natural? NO

3- Your workouts should be short, by short i mean never more than 45 minutes, but i
believe 30 minutes are more than enough, after those 45 minutes your testosterone
levels fall down, and your cortisol levels rise and you don't want that.
Testosterone helps to build muscle and burns fat, cortisol destroys muscle and gets
you fat. You also shouldn't train more than 2/3 times a week. Why? Because you need
time to recover, you grow when you recover and eat, not when at the gym.

4- You should train full body in one session, or upper/lower split, it's more
effective for the hardgainer.

5- You should use mainly compound exercises, the ones that let you use lots of
different muscles at the same time, and that allow you to use more weight. Those
should be the presses, chins, dips, rows, squats (i prefer the front squats and
Hack) romanian deadlifts. Some isolation exercises that i like are leg curls and
lateral raises, they´re important too. For your abs you should do planks, if you
want that good looking six pack, planks are all you need, don't grow your abs or
you'll look bloated, and preagnant too , kidding.

6- Train with balance, don't be like those who only train their chest and nothing
but their chest. A balanced body is more pleasing and you'll avoid injuries.

7- Train heavy, by heavy i mean heavy, low reps, i believe a hardgainer shouldn't do
more than 5/6 reps per set, and keep your volume low on sets too, you won't need
more than 4/5 sets per exercise, and you only need one exercise for each part you
train. The so called hypertrophy rep range 8/12 reps, for me it doesn't work, and
for most hardgainers it doesn't work either.
High reps just forget about it.

8- Most of you just want to look good naked. What i'm saying is train for
aesthetics, to look good and balanced, don't get too big for your height and bone
structure, build your body, sculp it, make your training an art. Get your shoulders
wide, do lateral raises, you already have the chest presses, you don't need to over
do it with overhead presses, work your chest with incline presses, the flat bench
press will only build you boobies, that's not a man chest. Do your chins and rows to
keep your anterior and posterior chain balanced. I said that i prefer front squats
and hack squats, because the back squats ruin your look, it will make your belly
big, your waist thick, your hips wide and your glutes will make you look like a duck
. With front and hack squats you work your quads without involving your hips and
glutes that much. Keep your waist thin, do planks and keep your fat levels low.

9- Here's an example of a workout for an hardgainer, full body twice a week. Incline
bench press 5×3-5 ; Chin ups 5×5 ; Lateral Raises 3×5-6 ; Front Squats 5×3-6 ; Leg
Curls 6×3

On the next workout you can change the chins for rows and the leg curls for romanian
deadlift with dumbells doing one leg at a time, this will keep the tension more on
the hamstrings and less on the glutes and lower back. Rest well between sets, one or
two minutes, don't fall for the intensity hype.

10- Progression is the most important, keep trying to improve every workout, when
you stop progressing in an exercise, change it, you don't have to change too much,
it could be from doing incline press with dumbells to a barbell, it's simple as
that.

11- Do CARDIO, yes do Cardio, don't let anybody tell you it will burn your muscles,
you're not going to run 10 miles, that yes will keep you from gaining muscle. Doing
cardio will help you to gain mass, if you have a better physical condition you can
do better workouts at the gym. Improving your blood circulation will help you
recover faster, and above all cardio is good for your HEART, it's good for your
HEALTH, and that's always the most important, besides it will burn fat and make you
look good, aesthetic is always important. You can do steady state , HIIT or mix
things ups, as a hardgainer you should do your cardio 2/3 times a week, no more than
30 minutes if doing steady state cardio, and much less if doing HIIT.

12- Eat CLEAN, DON'T bulk up, that is stupid, stupid and stupid. You want to gain
some muscle and burn fat, you don't want to get fat. You're not and never will be a
professional bodybuilder (who wants that anyway, are you sane? i hope so) so why
having a bulk up period, and cutting period? Why? for nothing, why not look good all
year? it's much better right? of course it is. Besides bulking will ruin your
health, your cholesterol will rise and that's not good as you know.

13- Live your LIFE, don't be obssessive about training and eating, don't spend your
days resting because you want to recover to get big, that's stupid, Life is to be
lived. You don't need to be eating all the time. Don't stress about it, sleep well
at night, eat clean, train well, and that's it, the rest of the time have fun, Life
has so many good things, just LIVE.

14- Be HEALTHY

15- Be HEALTHY, have i mentioned BE HEALTHY

Just follow this Hardgainer Fundamental Tips and you'll see the results, be patient
and persistent



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