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Please don’t look up “hardgainer”… it’s full of a bunch of ad-speak designed to prey upon your insecurities in the hopes that they can take your money. Some pe

Please don’t look up “hardgainer”… it’s full of a bunch of ad-speak designed to prey upon your insecurities in the hopes that they can take your money. Some people are skinnier. If you are one of these people it is a very lucky thing, as you are much less likely to experience health issues due to your weight over the course of your life. Gaining weight is harder for you, but i think you know that already? So you can skip the bizarre indoctrination of a relatively useless word like hardgainer. Anyone who insists otherwise is either drinking the cool-aid themselves or trying to take your money. And at the end of the day what’s the point? All the fundamentals are relatively the same. If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food? How much is literally as personal as something gets. So start with counting what you eat, be empirical about it, and slowly raise/lower accordingly. This is the same advice as anyone, regardless of what category of marketing speak and I securities they have.

pizza234 5y ago
"Hardgainer" is simply the term for a person that struggles to put mass ("hard" "gainer") using generic programs; it's not associated to a specific methodology. For this reason, by looking the term up, one will find different approaches, and try a few, to see what works. > If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food? This is imprecise/wrong for several reasons, the first being that the parent assumes already a correct diet: > I'm an otherwise healthy young male but even with proper diet my weight gain rate is way too slow Now: > All the fundamentals are relatively the same Even assuming that fundamentals are "relatively the same", each body responds differently, and there are lots of ways to structure a plan, even if the same exercises are performed. It's ultimately a matter of finding what works effectively for a given body. I actually write as somebody who does only fundamentals (as in "multi-joint exercises" for the main muscle groups) with a nonconventional schedule.
spaetzleesser 5y ago
"If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food?" That is not correct. Food either gets digested or you just poop more. When I was younger I could eat as or train as much I wanted but I had a pretty hard weight limit I couldn't get above. Thank god I realized that gaining weight for its own sake is a stupid goal so I focused on general fitness.

pizza234 5y ago

"Hardgainer" is simply the term for a person that struggles to put mass ("hard" "gainer") using generic programs; it's not associated to a specific methodology. For this reason, by looking the term up, one will find different approaches, and try a few, to see what works. > If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food? This is imprecise/wrong for several reasons, the first being that the parent assumes already a correct diet: > I'm an otherwise healthy young male but even with proper diet my weight gain rate is way too slow Now: > All the fundamentals are relatively the same Even assuming that fundamentals are "relatively the same", each body responds differently, and there are lots of ways to structure a plan, even if the same exercises are performed. It's ultimately a matter of finding what works effectively for a given body. I actually write as somebody who does only fundamentals (as in "multi-joint exercises" for the main muscle groups) with a nonconventional schedule.

spaetzleesser 5y ago

"If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food?" That is not correct. Food either gets digested or you just poop more. When I was younger I could eat as or train as much I wanted but I had a pretty hard weight limit I couldn't get above. Thank god I realized that gaining weight for its own sake is a stupid goal so I focused on general fitness.