The Hardgainer Solution: The Training and Diet Plans for Building a Better Body, Gaining Muscle, and Overcoming Your Genetics by Scott Abel
Author:Scott Abel [Abel, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scott Abel
Published: 2015-01-24T23:00:00+00:00
PART 3: THE HARDGAINER’S DIET SOLUTION
Training Your Metabolism For Success
A lot has been made about how the hard gainer should diet to put on muscle. You’ve likely heard it all: Everything from “bulk up as much as you can” to “get ripped and lean but put on muscle at the same time,” and everything in between.
But what is “true” for the truly hard gainer? This is a tough question, and the answer is tricky.
I’ve been dealing with hard gainers for decades and there has never been one easy “one size fits all” approach to dieting for the hard gainer. The individual was always the exception and every single hard gainer I have Coached had something unique about him or her compared to the next hard gainer – especially when it came to metabolism.
Let me repeat: there are no “one size fits all” approaches to dieting for the hard gainer.
However, there are some general considerations that remain true across the board, and we need to discuss them.
First, you need to let go of unrealistic expectations. If you’ve never had “six-pack abs” – then don’t try dieting to get them at the same time you “say” you want to develop your body. These are often completely different goals. Development should take precedence. Stop listening to ads that tell you that you can gain 25 lbs. of muscle and get ripped at the same time. I’ve never seen that actually happen to a hard gainer (either with my own clients or others’), and I’ve been in this game at the highest levels for four decades! You need to be realistic.
Now, while diet can indeed help you as a hard gainer, it is not nearly as important as the right program and meeting your recovery needs from training. Your diet does not need to be too complicated. Simple is ALWAYS better. So stop worrying about any marketing nonsense you may hear regarding complicated formulas for putting on muscle while “getting lean.”
Furthermore, forget about all this nonsense of pre, peri, and post workout nutrition. With the hard gainers workouts solutions your workouts will be too short for any of that to matter.
It is overall calories balance to support recovery and growth that matters. And this must be viewed over the long haul and not in short term “windows” that are more marketing rubbish than reality. Having said that… taking in more calories than you need probably makes good sense for the hard gainer. I consider it as kind of an insurance policy so your body stays in an anabolic state that will not only support recovery, but stimulate growth as well.
The problem with this idea is the message it sends. None of this implies ‘bulking up’ in the classic sense, or deliberately overfeeding yourself. You have to train your metabolism and support it as well.
For the hard gainer, simply overfeeding yourself is not supporting your metabolism. You need to coax your metabolism along and how to do this will be outlined in the biofeedback section. You never just want to add “scale weight” for the sake of adding scale weight.
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