If you're a hardgainer you know the drill.
You pack on the calories in hopes of adding some fat which will in turn support the new muscle you hope to add to your frame.
You then hit the gym and spend hours and hours lifting weights, making sure you hold true to proper technique.
Yet weeks later you're largely in the same boat as you were when you started.
You haven't gained a single pound and although you're increasing the weight you're lifting (so you must be getting stronger, right?) you can't tell a difference in your physique.
Welcome to the club.
You're an official hardgainer.
But the vast majority of hardgainers don't know what they should be eating.
Basic books on weight training delve into muscle building foods but not at the level that a true hardgainer needs.
After all, all of our bodies are different.
A hardgainer will need different foods in different quantities than another body type will need.
The same can be said for workout routines for hardgainers.
With your high metabolism burning through calories at a frantic pace, you'll need to key in on certain exercises and largely give up cardiovascular (read: fat burning) workouts while you run through your program.
(Note: If at the end of your designated eight or 12 week cycle you want to become more toned, you can then do cardiovascular.
) It's certainly enough to make your head spin.
In order to avoid the high costs of books these days, most of us head right to the internet.
There we can find a lot of information that can downloaded instantly so that we may start our workouts the same day.