"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.

"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.