The 5 Greatest Tools For A Hardgainer To Build Muscle
Posted on September 30, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
Everyday life would be pretty tough without the use of tools right, there are always things available most of the time to help us out. In the same way, there are tools out there which can really help the hardgainer achieve skinny muscle gain (great muscles on a skinny guy) and see great positive results. Hardgainers often go through the motions of bodybuilding and require a little more organization and planning to make the most of their training and see skinny muscle gain.
Ok so what are the basic tools that every hardgainer should have for skinny muscle gain?
1. A Protein & Calorie Dense Diet
Since this makes up around 60-70% of your chance of success in skinny muscle gain, it’s at the top and and is a vital part of any hardgainers routine. Hardgainers need a good flow of protein and calories to feed that energy burning body daily and ensure a calorie excess at the end of the day. Protein helps repair and build your muscles after workouts and is also vital. 1.5 to 2g of protein per pound of bodyweight is a good start. Keep it healthy and ensure you have a good hardgainers grocery list to kick-start start some skinny muscle gain.
2. A Good Protein Supplement
I know I mentioned this above, but the truth is hardgainers often stumble at the protein hurdle and negates the hard work at the gym or home. A great way to ensure you get all the protein your muscles need is by supplementing your skinny muscle gain diet with a protein shake. The average shake provides around 30g of protein, 3 times a day that’s 90g already knocked off. The thing to remember is make sure you’re working out, if you take these shakes daily without working out, you’ll possibly get fat building up in the wrong places without seeing skinny muscle gain. Read more
Healthy Foods For Your Gain Weight Diet
Posted on September 21, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The key equation when creating a gain weight diet is to have more calories going in, then being consumed. The trick is to create a calorie surplus and therefore gain weight. Consume healthy calories and slowly increase your intake daily to give your body time to adapt. A gain weight diet is structured around calorie dense healthy foods, high density foods are basically foods that contain the highest amounts of calories per portion. So foods high in water content for instance don’t do too well on the calorie dense list, as water contains no calories! Your body needs variety and the right building blocks to gain weight, increasing your calories, protein and carbohydrates will give you results if done correctly.
So what kind of foods should you be adding to a gain weight diet?
The popular calorie dense foods are also on the fatty side like salamis, biscuits, chips, beers, fried foods and chocolate bars. By now you might be picturing a mountain of these foods in your pantry and looking forward to eating them as much as you like right? Remember, high calorie foods is just what we need in a gain weight diet, but we want the healthy ones with good nutritional value, so where are they? Read more
The Hardgainer Diet, Where To Start and What To Eat?
Posted on September 19, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The hardgainer diet is quite different to the average bodybuilding diet simply because of how easily the skinny guy burns it all off! It’s all kind of a numbers game, you need to feed your body more calories/energy than you use up per day. This has to be coupled with proper nutrition but the main concept of a hardgainer diet is to consume more than you use. Little by little each day, over time you will then start to see your weight increasing. Remember that your body is built from you put inside it, make it the best, that means start cutting back on any junk.
Hardgainer Diet Starting Points
Eat foods that are calorie dense, lots of calories packed in little amounts of food to maximize your hardgainer diet. Try to aim for a ratio of 25% proteins, 25% good fats and 50% carbs. You need to be looking at almost 20 calories per pound of your total body weight. Tone down your energy usage, and up your caloric intake. Take some time to devise a way you can split this up into 5-6 meals a day even if one might be a weight gain supplement. In these meals you’ll need a good dose of vitamins and minerals, all your essential fats and oils. A proper nutritionally packed hardgainer diet is a massive factor often overlooked in seeing weight gains.
One thing to remember is that if you’re not supplying your body with enough energy to replace what it uses, it will start “borrowing” from your muscles. Start keeping a log of how many calories you’re consuming in the day, keep a food diary this will help. There are many programs you can download like ‘calorieking’, which keeps a track of your new hardgainer diet and output through your daily activities. Read more
Starting A Weight Gain Diet to Build Skinny Muscle!
Posted on September 19, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
So if you’ve figured out you’re a hardgainer and burn up food like a nuclear power plant and want skinny muscle (muscle on skinny guys!), you’ll need to create or make a few changes to your weight gaining diet to maximise your muscle building. An effective skinny muscle weight gaining diet will take care of at least 85% of your muscle building goals in the long run. No matter how much training you do, a faulty weight gaining diet will always hold you back and prevent you seeing any true changes.
Try to eat around 30 minutes before your workout, post workout take a whey protein shake with around 30-50g of whey protein. Work your way up to half a gallon to a gallon of water a day, especially if your taking creatine. A weight gaining diet to build skinny muscle means eating hard, but not in one go, it’s about spacing!
It’s best not to go from your usual 3 meals a day to 6 straight away. Try adding a meal every few days to your weight gaining diet depending on how your body takes it. If you consume too much too quickly, it will be stored as fat and not skinny muscle. Firstly before you start adding these foods to your diet, cut back on the junk. Ice cream, cookies, chocolates, they all taste great but instead of gaining muscle weight, you’ll be gaining fat. It takes dedication and commitment to stick to a hardgainer diet but it will pay off in skinny muscle!
A Brief Grocery List of Foods to Start your Weight Gaining Diet and Building Skinny Muscle Read more
Top 6 Factors Which Prevent Muscle Gain In Skinny Guys
Posted on September 19, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Hardgainers and skinny guys live in a slightly different world to the “average” bodybuilding types. Yes having a fast metabolism does have its advantages however, in the muscle building world it makes things a little trickier for skinny muscle gain (muscle on skinny guys)! The following are some easy factors to pay attention to which can have a massive impact on muscle building goals and skinny muscle gain.
1. Using Too Much Energy Than Consumed – Everybody has a different job with various levels of intensity and energy usage. The more you do, the more calories are burned, pretty simple equation. So if you don’t replace the energy used on a daily level, you’ll lose weight, or stay a skinny guy not seeing skinny muscle gain. More calories consumed than used = weight gain.
2. Following an Incorrect Training Routine - Hardgainers often train with routines more suited towards easygainers. Less of the isolation exercises and more compound workouts are needed for skinny muscle gain, for example bench press and squats.
3. Inefficient Nutrition = No Skinny Muscle Gain – It’s all about calories and eating more of them than you consume. It doesn’t just end there though, hardgainers need lots of carb dense and protein rich foods to see healthy weight gain and build muscle.
4. Protein - To give yourself the best chance of seeing skinny muscle gain, at least 1.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight should be consumed daily! It’s a lot but with the right foods and some supplementation, you’ll be there in no time. Read more
Why Is It So Tricky For Ectomorphs To Build Muscle?
Posted on September 19, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Ok fair enough, women and some big guys do get jealous of the skinny guys ability to burn off anything he consumes, but to the guy this can quickly become an obstacle when looking to build muscle on an ectomorph body. It’s all about the right knowledge though and setting the slim guy back on track to gaining healthy weight, skinny muscle (muscle on the skinny guy), and super confidence.
Skinny guys are referred to as having an ectomorph body in the bodybuilding world, usually those with a genetically smaller frame or a hardgaining metabolism that burns up everything in sight making it hard to build skinny muscle. So bodybuilding is a totally different game for hardgainers as it can get frustrating and de-motivating at times not seeing any change. So why is it so tough to alter an ectomorph body and add skinny muscle to it?
One of the problems lies in the way skinny guys train, most routines and information out there is created for easy weight gainers such as mesomorphs or endomorphs as opposed to the ectomorph body. These two types of bodies find it easier to gain muscle and put on weight. When an ectomorph body tries to build skinny muscle and train like the big easy gainer, the guy usually ends up pretty disappointed with the results or lack of skinny muscle. Even the supplements they take are burned up by their fast metabolisms in no time, especially when you combine that with the wrong kind of diet, an ectomorph body rarely responds to the wrong kind of diet! Read more
Articles
- The 5 Greatest Tools For A Hardgainer To Build Muscle
- Healthy Foods For Your Gain Weight Diet
- The Hardgainer Diet, Where To Start and What To Eat?
- Starting A Weight Gain Diet to Build Skinny Muscle!
- Top 6 Factors Which Prevent Muscle Gain In Skinny Guys
- Why Is It So Tricky For Ectomorphs To Build Muscle?
MBSG Pages
Spend a couple of minutes reading our review of 'Muscle Gaining Secrets' and discover this great hardgainers tool! What MBSG Promotes
