Hard gainer and easy gainer are two different body types and both face different challenges when it comes to building muscle and burning fat. Hard gainer is a person who finds it very tough to put on muscle mass. They also have fast metabolism as compared to easy gainers. They can also burn fat more rapidly as compared to easy gainers. Easy gainers can gain weight easily by doing nothing and fall out of shape quickly but can build muscle easily while hard gainers stay in shape but lose muscles easily.
If you find out that you are a hard gainer, the first thing you have to do is that you don’t have to follow what the pro bodybuilders do. It will be difficult for you to believe that many people in your situation are doing the wrong thing. Body builders have better genetics and in most cases they use illegal drugs to get large amount of muscles. Second important thing you need to consider is that when you build muscles through weight lifting, your muscle fiber breaks down and the recovery is the time in which your muscles are built. So it is very important to put muscles under consistent amount of stress. This is the way muscle will adapt and get stronger.
To start building build muscles exercises and getting muscular physique, it is important for hard gainers to eat and eat regularly. If you are a hard gainer, you have to ensure that you are taking sufficient calories every single day. To maintain the same weight, average daily calories amount for males is 2500calories so you need to take at least 3000 calories. It is good that you maintain a diary to track and know that you are having sufficient amount of calories in your diet. Along with more eating, eating regularly after every two to three hours is also important. Hard gainers should make their gym sessions short and sweet instead of spending long hours training in the gym. You also have to ensure that most of the time you spend in doing workouts. Constantly push yourself and lift the weight according to your maximum capability. Isolation exercises don’t provide required results to hard gainers. Compound moves like squats and deadlift etc. are very helpful in building required muscle mass.
To get required muscle building results at the fast rate, hard trainers have to do things properly along with hard training.