It is probably your wishful thinking to look gorgeous and be successful with good-looking women or it might be the ‘shower’ of different ‘professional’ advice and products on the market that makes you believe that you as a hardgainer need to train more that an average human being. If you reached satisfactory results by working in the gym like an ox following a 5-day routine, then do NOT read on. But if that’s not the case, this article is just made for you – a desperately tired hardgainer at the edge of your physical and mental exhaustion.
Rule no.1. Ignore those ‘big rats’ and commercial magazines telling you to extend your training because you’re a hardgainer. Listen to your body instead nad look ua a training program which takes the needs of an ectomorph body seriously and understands them.
Rule no.2. Contrary to what most beginner bodybuilders believe, your muscles do NOT grow while you’re ripping them apart in the local gym! And hardgainers are specially challenged when it comes to recovery time after each workout. My simple advice on hot give your muscle tissues enough space to recover and start to grow is by giving them an extra day off training.
Rule no.3. Since an ectomorph body functions on different principles than any ‘normal’ guy’s body (the ones we hate for having rock-hard muscles for less hard work). You have to adjust the time spent in the gym. While some people would advise you to keep your workouts shorter than 60 minutes, I would say keep it 45 minutes or under! And here’s why: Training longer than 45 to 60 (max!) minutes causes the drop of your anabolic hormones. Your hardgainer muscle fibers are not designed for endurance related exercises. You then feel drop in energy and also drop in the ability to recover. So you want to keep your workouts rather fast and furious in order to get the maximum results; it’ll also give you some extra time your can spend with your friends and family.
Rule no.4. If you feel the above mentioned symptoms (tiredness, drop in energy and drop in recovery time) stop training right away! As a hardgainer you have to make sure you don’t do long-endurance training sessions simply because your body doesn’t have a lot of creatin phosphate in storage.
A solution: If you have already crossed the line and haven’t given yourself that necessary day of rest between your workouts and feel like run over by a train it’s still not too late to do something about it. You’ve got two possibilities. You can take a week of training and watch a little miracle happen. It’s like giving your body a Christmas present after all the hard work. And what more you can expect a reward for it in form of bigger and harder muscles. It really works. Your muscles grow while they rest! Remember?!
The second option is to start doing ‘sub-failure’ training, which basically means that you’re never going to reach muscular failure during the workout; you’re stopping two to three repetitions short of it.
source:isnare.com
