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HARD GAINER

natural weight gain for hardgainers

The body of the typical hard gainer doesn't respond well to consistent full-bore, maximum effort workouts in the gym. Even drug using genetic mega-superiors can't grow indefinitely on it. We simply can't bully our bodies to grow big shapely muscles by following a hardgainer routine. We have to firmly coax them. Here cycling helps a lot and has many interpretations.

The neophyte need not be concerned much if at all with intensity cycling. The novice can stick to a simple, basic and not too frequent routine, training hard on his own no forced reps, drop sets, negatives. The hard gainers can productively maintain this for a year or more. All that's required is having a week off followed by a break-in week or two every 10-12 weeks and perhaps making a couple of exercise changes. Once gains dry up, it's time to start taking advantage of cycling.

The most impressive gains should occur in the initial stages of training in hard gainers, providing that all the contributing variables are in good order. Once you're beyond the beginners' stage it isn't the end of rapid gains. If you've been training for a long time; if you've never seriously tried a size and strength abbreviated routine with a quality eating schedule; if you've never trained extremely hard; if you've never been generous with rest between workouts; if you've never had a highly motivated training partner; if you've never "gotten into" a hardgainer routine with massive desire to improve, then be ready for rapid gains. This very rapid rate of progress can't be maintained by hard gainers, but it is possible if you get all the conditions right. Training flat out all the time always ends up in overtraining. Once you're overstrained, you can't bully your way out of it because the body rebels against consistent full-bore effort, so does the mind. To do more reps and/or more poundage than you've ever done before, every workout, and every week, becomes a tremendous mental burden. Always trying to do more, when you're already at the zenith of your current capacity, is too much. There have to be slack periods in a hardgainer routine. There have to be workouts in which you purposely avoid pushing yourself to the limit. Beyond the initial gains of the properly trained neophyte, the near linear progress ceases. From here progress is irregular for hard gainers

Cycling can be of great help here for hard gainers as it is an organized and planned effort to arrange the irregular progress into a regular progression of ups and downs. Cycling is about taking steps backward to prepare for enough forward steps to go beyond previous best achievements.

Beyond the introduction period to weight training, think of seeing absolute progress every three months or so through hardgainer routine. Maintain this progress for a year and a half - six cycles of three months each. Assuming the minimum gain, that comes, do it again over the next year and a half.

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