Hardgainers unite, it is possible for us to get ripped muscle and a muscular frame. The tricks are below. These key lessons on how to properly strength train to build pounds and pounds of lean and ripped muscle are critical to your success.

There is always so much information out there on how to lose fat and weight, but often the hardgainer gets left behind. The truth of the matter is that often it is harder to gain than to lose. But if you follow these key muscle building points that should not be a problem.

First of all stay away from all those crappy supplements, that promise huge results in limited time frames. All you need is some whey powder and a bit of creatine. The rest is in your kitchen. You will learn to become friends with your refrigerator because you will be eating at least 6 times a day.

I don’t want to get into the nutrition aspect too much today, I want to focus on the keys to building muscle in the gym.

First keep the workouts quick and intense. You should be in and out within 45 min to an hour. Any longer than that and you are overtraining your muscles, hardgainer will not grow their muscles by overtraining them. If you are not getting enough of a pump you are not working out intensely enough. Cut back on your rest time and bulk up on the weights.

Stay to a 10 rep max when dealing with the number of reps per exercise. If you are not feeling it at 10 then you gotta add more plates to the exercise.

Cut back on the Cardio. There is no need for you to perform an hour of cardio, all this is going to do is burn off all your muscle gains. You are going to run, run, run and your body is going to be using your muscle as fuel for the fire.

This is a key point, you have got to be doing the right kinds of strength training exercises. There is nothing more pathetic than seeing a skinny hardgainer in the gym doing shoulder shrugs of leg extensions.
Stick to the bulking exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench press, shoulder press, rows, dips and chin-ups. Your workout should revolve around these. In fact I often say, until you get the bodyweight exercises down there is really no need to be working on the heavy weight exercises.

You have gotta be really stimulating those muscle fibers and ensuring that you are getting maximum strength gains. You can’t do that on some silly machine or even worse on a treadmill. You have to do either bodyweight exercises or use free weights. Check out www.internethealthandfitnessdatabase.com for more info.

Last thing I want to talk about is getting more plates on the barbells. You need to constantly be testing yourself, try adding 5% more every two weeks. If you are not getting stronger you are getting weaker. So continue to test your boundaries. Hardgainer unite build muscle today!