Commonly called a “hardgainer”, you have a “high metabolism” that doesn’t allow you to gain weight very easily. When you exercise, you may end up actually losing weight and your routine may end up making you stronger, but not any bigger. When you do gain muscle, it says bye-bye as soon as you stray from a solid training and diet program. In order to pack on some solid lean muscle that doesn’t disappear the first time you skip a protein shake, your training has to be different…

There are many things you should do different if you are a hardgainer. In the next few lines you will learn about the importance of the timing of your workouts…

Being one of the human lab rats in Hardgainer Project X experiment, I had a chance to talk to the author of the program “The Muscle Nerd” Jeff Anderson. His answers shook my whole bodybuilding world and I realised that 95% of the tips from the so called “experts” out there don’t really help you build muscle! Specially if you are a skinny guy like me…

So what do you think? Is it ok for a hardgainer to train in the evening?

Ok, let’s look at this from the standpoint of the advice that we give to fat people. The ectomorphs, or skinny hardgainers, are on the other end of the scale. People who are overweight want to work out first thing in the morning, because such exercise supercharges their metabolism and it allows them to burn more calories naturally throughout the day.

But if you are a hardgainer, you want to do the opposite. You already have a high metabolism – you want to slow it down.

So if you’re working out in the evening time, you avoid that heightened metabolism throughout the day. Also, if you train before you go to sleep you get into this really opportune anabolic zone for you because the highest spike of growth hormone is when you’re sleeping. (I mean, I wouldn’t work out and then just go straight from the bench press over to my bed, but working out about an hour before you go to bed is absolutely fine).

Plus, you also get a spike of growth hormone after your workouts. So you can get this double dose of really heightened hormonal response to help you pack on weight!

Now you’ve got an increase in growth hormone, your muscles have the protein after you’ve had your post-workout meal and the stimulation from your workouts. All that stuff is gonna work together while you sleep to help your body recover and it’s a really, really opportune anabolic zone for you to get into without creating that extra calorie burning throughout the day!

I usually go to gym in the evening time, because there’s a lot of hot girls out there.
And, you know, to be honest, it’s giving me loads of extra energy to lift

Enjoy the training and stay tuned for more Smart Hardgainer Tips!

”The Smart Hardgainer”
Andy Mikulka

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