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Be a Happy Hard Gainer
Build a Body to be Proud of – Look Awesome & Feel Fantastic
If you are a hard gainer (ectomorph) you are naturally
* Fine boned
* Long limbed
* Weak and Skinny
* Clothes hang off your lanky frame
and
* You don’t put on muscle or fat very easily.
You are often envied by your bigger friends for your ability to eat huge quantities of anything and everything without putting on weight.
But they don’t envy the shapeless figure of a hard gainer and you don’t want to be a skinny ectomorph.
You want a strong attractive body with shape and definition that you can show off with pride. You want to gain weight fast.
You can gain weight fast and build big muscles that bulge or lean muscles that give you a sexy shapely body tone.
But because you are a hard gainer, you have to go about transforming your body in particular and specific ways for healthy weight gain.
You as an ectomorph will not build muscle with a “one size fits all” fitness and diet program. You will not gain weight fast with a standard set of exercises and diet selections.
You have to put the effort where you know it will work.
It all comes back to knowing the correct diet and exercise to gain weight fast.
How a Hard Gainer has to eat
Eat often. Start every day with a good breakfast within on hour of waking up.
Keep on eating at 2-2 1/2 hour intervals throughout the day for healthy weight gain.
Eat clean. Just because as a hard gainer you “can” gorge on bucketsful of deep fried junk food, you must not do it.
Eating junk will hinder your progress for healthy weight gain.
Now, while your body type does not gain fat so easily as the other 2 somatotypes (mesomorph and endomorph), ectomorphs find muscle gain a problem because of your natural metabolism.
Your body type has a high metabolism so you need to graze all day long to avoid energy slumps.
The trouble is that many hard gainers eat whatever is at hand rather than food that is good for them.
You have to have plenty of prepared snacks at arms reach to dig into to avoid poor nutrition.
You really have to make sure that whatever you put in your stomach is the best fuel for it – that means you too must cut the saturated fats right back in order to be fit and healthy and for optimal muscle gain, whether lean or mass muscle.
Do your body a great big favour and make the commitment to cut deep fried food from your regular diet. No more hot chips (french fries). You will never regret it.
A hard gainer should eat a high carb diet
Focus your diet on the best carbs for you – keep simple carbs to a minimum and concentrate on complex carbs that will give you long term energy to sustain your highly metabolised body.
Wholegrain breads, oats, pastas, rice and polenta are excellent choices.
Try eating twice as much protein as fats and twice as much carbs as protein for a hardcore high carb diet to suit your body type.
Keep peanut butter or raw nuts or fruit or protein bars or protein shakes handy for healthy, energy packed fast food.
The best hardgainer workout to gain weight fast
How to build muscle fast as a hard gainer.
Train heavy, but not long or often for the best hardgainer workout to gain weight fast. 1 hour in the gym 3 times a week is how to build muscle fast.
Any longer and you will bite into your muscles and lean tissue and undo all your good efforts.
Avoid cardio. Until you build muscle to work with that is, then be very careful and specific with the cardio you choose.
Lengthy steady state cardio is not a good choice for a hardgainer workout. You want to get some muscular curves on your bones, not stay lean and lanky.
Concentrate on resistance workouts to gain muscle mass. Heavy weights with longer than average breaks between sets is how to build muscle fast whether you are a male or female ectomorph.
Whether you are after large or lean muscles, 2-3 minutes between sets for a hardgainer workout is ideal.
Recommended Reading
* Download Building Muscle the Wrong Way, a free report that details the most common mistakes hard gainers make in getting into shape.
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* You are going to need whey protein and cassein to support your muscle growth to gain weight fast. Read about these weight gain supplements at bodybuilding.com
* For a program specifically designed by a hard gainer for fellow ectomorphs, check out Vince DelMonte’s No Nonsense Muscle Building. Vince transformed himself from weedy triathlete to sexy fitness model and he knows exactly what you need to do to transform yourself like he did.
Vince’s program includes plenty of dedicated hardgainer workouts and ectomorph diet guidance that is both accurate and proven.
Don’t waste time with “one size fits all” programs – Vince’s course is specifically targeted to fix your body shape problems as an ectomorph.
It takes some effort and time commitment, but the gain is well worth the pain. You will no longer be skinny and weedy with your ill fitting clothes hanging off you.
Your beautiful body will be fit and full of energy with muscles and curves in all the right places.
* Learn more about your body type; read Tom Venuto’s excellent eBook Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle. Tom’s publication is accurate and detailed.
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle tells you everything you need to know about motivation, diet and exercise – not just for the ectomorph, but for your mesomorph and endomorph family and friends as well.
You can read my review of Tom’s program here.
Recommended Reading
The Fat Loss Secret of Champion Physique Athletes
What is the Ideal Body Fat Level to See Your Abs?
The Great Abs Mistake: He was doing 1000 crunches and situps a day and still NO Abs
The Top 10 Weight Loss Foods
Negative Calorie Foods
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