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Gaining Mass for a Hardgainer Ectomorph
Beefcake!
 
Beefcake!
 
 BEEFCAKE!
Gaining Mass for a hargainer skinny guy does NOT work like this as satirized by Southpark though weight gain supplements continue toemploy the same tactics and push their  products with the desire that you will continueto pay money hand over fist to them for something you DON'T NEED to get ripped. Not all supplements are useless mind you. Some have certain uses at higher levels of weight training and others can be used as a very limited addition to your diet but as far asmiracle muscle gain powders go none of them deliver on this promise.This means you
can
get the 'beefcake' body you want naturally without even touchingsupplements ... lets look at how.
Click here for the complete guide to natural hardgainer bodybuilding 
Gaining Mass with a Hardgainers Diet
Weight gain supplements cannot compete with a good, nutritious diet that gives youenough calories to put on weight but also have enough other nutrients to give the body allit needs to repair and run the body to the most efficient degree.You can get all the benefits of what the companies claim these things will do out of normal every day food and more. There are however a few things you need to know toconstruct the best hardgainer, skinny guy meal plans.
Metabolism
Skinny guy hardgainers are primarily limited in the muscle building department due totheir metabolism which is very high. This means that the body of a naturally skinny guy burns through calories the body is fed at such a fast rate that there is little energy left for muscle building (
Anabolism
 
) and when the calories run out it begins to cannibalize themuscles you may have already built through the other metabolic function called
catabolism
.What you eat, how much you eat, when you eat and even how you eat can all be adjustedto give your body all it needs to bulk up significantly even if you have always had skinnygenetics.
 
How much to eat
The basic rule here is to eat more. The idea behind the weight gain supplements is toforce more calories into your body and this idea does have merit but not without doing itright and knowing your limits. You need to calculate your resting metabolic rate which isthe amount of calories you burn just doing nothing but the underlying bodily processes.You then need to add on how much you need for daily exercise, work and play plus your weight lifting workouts.This is the minimum your body need to sustain itself at its current level. To build muscleyou need to then add a heap more calories on top of this! Not to mention as you gainmuscle you need about 60 calories per day more per extra pound of lean muscle mass youadd.
What to eat
Certain foods are better than others. Calories ladenwith sugar or salt or bereft of other nutrients are junk and may supply calories but nothing else.Eating high protein, calorie dense foods without anyadditives is not just good health advice but also aidsyour body in giving the muscles all they need togrow instead of giving the body garbage that goesstraight to fat cells due to insulin sensitivitydecrease. Some excellent gaining mass foods for skinny hardgainers are:
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Skinless Chicken
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Avocado
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Strong Tasting Cheeses
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Dried Fruit
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 Nuts
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Eggs
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Fruit
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Lean Ground Mince
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Legumes of all sorts
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Whole meal Grains (but don't overdo it)
When to Eat
This is something many skinny guys fall down on but can make a big difference to your muscle gain. To reduce the chance of catabolism you should ditch the 3 square meals aday and start eating 5-6 meals a day. Each of these meals should about evenly divide your calorie needs between them so none of them are just 'snacks'.This will ensure your body is fully fueled to build muscle at all times.
 
How to eat.
This is not essential but is such a simple thing to do that I encourage everyone to do itwhether you are gaining weight or losing weight!
Chew your food more!
Chewing foods more breaks down many more cells in the food that releases morenutrients such as T-Cells and others that give the body more from a single mouthful thanfrom a few poorly chewed mouthfuls at least in terms of helpful immune system helpingstuff!
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Gaining Mass Beyond Food
The other folly of the '
weight gain 4000 beefcake
' type of strategy is that it pays noattention to the fact that calories without proper exercise means that gaining mass for hardgainer skinny dudes becomes a mass of fat not a hard, built, muscular body.While you are obviously going to be workout out and lifting weights knowing the facts of muscle building will help you streamline your workouts to make them efficient andeffective.
Muscle Adapt to Change
While the processes involved in muscle building can be detailed it is long andcomplicated. What you need to know however is that muscle do not grow unless theyhave a reason. The muscles would rather sit back and do nothing if it were up to themyou see. Only when they have been seriously challenged proving that your body needsadditional strength do muscles actually get bigger and stronger.What happens very simply is that when you lift weights of sufficient weight that youcannot manage easily and you force yourself to really dip into the strength reserves to liftthem you actually break down your muscle somewhat by creating many small tearsthrough the muscle fibers from the stress. This the the trigger for muscle growth as the body need to repair these tears and when it does ti also builds more muscle fiber aroundthe tears somewhat like scar tissue. This extra muscle is you getting bigger and stronger.
Big Weight to Achieve Big Gains
What this means is that you should forget doing heaps of reps per sets and justconcentrate on lifting heavy. You can only force change and do the essential damage tothe muscles by lifting to your absolute limit just a few times. a set of 8-10 reps beforefailure will do you more good that 100 reps of just a slightly smaller weight!
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