How to Bulk Up Fast for Hardgainers – 4 Easy Tricks
3 Biggest Skinny Guy Mistakes You're Making. Click Here to Avoid Them!
As a hardgainer, I know how difficult it can be to move the scale. Stuck in a skinny 115 pound frame through high school and most of my adulthood, I know how frustrating it is for guys like us when trying to bulk up. I remember at one point believing that my metabolism would just not allow me to gain weight, period. That was until I realized that I was going about it the wrong way, probably something like what you are doing right now. Once I learned a few simple principles, I was able to transform my body by packing on almost 30 pounds of muscle in record time.
Today, I am going to share a few of those same principles and teach you how to bulk up fast without any supplements. I am going to share 4 tricks that are going to help you blast through your skinny genetics and start moving the scale within days.
1. Stop “Eating Healthy”
Before you begin to bash principle number one, you must understand what I mean by “stop eating healthy”. I am not saying that you should have 3 McDonalds meals per day to remain in a caloric surplus and watch the scale increase along with your waist line. What I mean is simply that in order to bulk up fast, we MUST be at a caloric surplus and for ectomorphs/hardgainers this can become very difficult if we have the “I eat healthy” mind set. You see, as someone with a superhuman metabolism, we can afford to increase our carbohydrate intake as well as get our carbs from simple sources such as white rice, bread, and pasta. Although most “fitness experts” may advise you to stay away from these carbohydrates, the fact is that with our body type, we must follow a diet plan created for a very specific need. In a nut shell, increase your carbohydrate intake (55% of your total calories) and feel free to mix up your carbs between complex and the “not so healthy” simple sources.
Note: I personally have no issues with body fat and still enjoy the occasional hamburger and pizza 
2. Multi Joint Lifts
Just as we must eat different than the average person, we must also train different. While most guys can build muscle and gain weight by simply walking into a gym, we aren’t so lucky. Don’t get me wrong, building muscle for us can become just as simple as it is for the majority of those who were blessed with “good genetics”, but nearly impossible if we try to mimic their (guys with good genetics) approach. For us, we must focus on multi joint exercises or compound lifts that recruit more motor units as well as increase the release of anabolic hormones that are crucial to our success. While most guys can bicep curl their way into sleeve ripping arms, we have to take a more scientific approach (i.e. pulls ups, chin ups, or any compound lifts that will activate the smaller muscle group as well as recruit the maximum amount of muscle fibers before isolating the inactive muscle).
Some multi joint lifts include:
- Pull ups
- Dips
- Bench Press
- Deadlifts
- Military Press
- Squats
Making these exercises the focal point to every workout is the key to maximizing your training sessions.
3. Stop Lifting So Damn Heavy
One of the BIGGEST mistakes people make when trying to bulk up fast is, lifting with heavy weight for low repetitions. This is due to the largest myth in the body building industry today that says “lift heavy with low reps for size and lift light weight for high reps for definition”. This is the biggest load of sh!t that I have ever heard and it pisses me off every time I hear it repeated by uneducated weight lifters to the even more uneducated weight lifter. There are a few reasons why this is completely wrong and has been destroying chances at gaining any muscle.
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4. Take a Freakin’ Break!
You’ve probably heard me say this a million times, but without proper rest you will NEVER grow. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t build muscle while we are at the gym kicking our own ass…instead we are breaking the muscle down. New muscle is created while we are resting and/or sleeping and not participating in heavy physical activity. One of the most common mistakes made by us “skinny guys” is, we train hard and see no results so we automatically assume we should train longer and harder. In reality, this is just making things worse for us. If you are training 5-6 days a week at the moment, reduce your training to 3-4 days a week and start watching yourself grow.
How to Bulk Up Fast for Hardgainers
Use these 4 basic principles as guidelines for your own diet and training routine. If you are implementing all of these into your program, you will notice positive changes in your body faster than before. Now obviously there are very specific routines and diets that will maximize your results, but having these principles in order will increase the effectiveness of anything you are currently following. The absence of just one of these “easy tricks” can be the cause of your inability to build any muscle. With that being said, make sure that you follow all of these guidelines for best results.
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