The Hard Gainer Report
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Training and nutritional information for the most neglected group of bodybuilders: drug-free hard gainers.
In this report, you’ll learn if you’re a hard gainer and why you’re a hard gainer if you are, and why you are having trouble gaining muscle and strength. Better than that, we’ll show you how you can begin to gain muscle and strength, and keep on gaining. This report is for the natural (drug-free) hard gainer–especially.
You’ll find information on such topics of importance for the hard gainer as workouts, rest and recovery, how to plan your workouts, and a critical discussion of nutrition, eating and metabolism for the hard gainer.
Workout routines are also covered in this report. If you are working out like everybody else and not gaining, we’ll show you workouts that will work for you. If you are one of the extreme hard gainers, we can show you how you, too, can make gains.
While conventional workouts don’t often work for hard gainers, often hard gainers need to resort to more limited workouts specifically designed for them. When even these methods don’t work, we show you still other methods. There are alternatives.
Learn how as a hard gainer, you may eventually utilize a unique variation of volume training principles to boost your progress. (Though many experts say you can’t do this.) You will find also, the number one thing you need to do above everything else if you are to succeed in your bodybuilding as a hard gainer.
This report contains:
–The #1 thing hard gainers need to do to gain muscle size
–how to gain weight, how to gain muscle
–what to eat, what not to eat, how much to eat
–information for the drug-free hard gainer on how to train, what exercises are best for you
–how to work with, instead of against, your metabolism
–a section on a much-neglected growth exercise & special growth workouts
–specific set and rep schemes & why to use them
–how to use volume & when (yes, hard gainers can)
–when & how to use specific exercises
–an in-depth discussion of hard gainer nutrition: learn about maximized eating, protein, & bulking up
–the importance of recovery & how to actually improve this
–and more...
This book-length report is a map, a guide of how to get from where you are to where you want to go.
It is written by a natural bodybuilding hard gainer for natural bodybuilding hard gainers.
Greg Sushinsky
Greg Sushinsky is a widely published prolific writer whose articles have seen print in sports magazines, health and fitness periodicals, investment magazines, sports websites, finance and invesetment websites, and more. He has a degree in philosophy and has been an amateur athlete, competing as a drug free or natural bodybuilder and powerlifter and recently as a cycling racer.He’s written for several of the health and fitness magazines, including MuscleMag International, Ironman Magazine, Natural Physique, as well as Cross-Trainer/Total Fitness and American Health & Fitness (now called Maximum Fitness). He has written commercially published digests on fitness walking and an herbal guide. He is a much sought after writer, editor and consultant in the health and fitness field.He has been a contributing editor and writer for a group of national sports magazines, the Preview Sports annuals, and has written extensively on the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. He has written team previews, features, profiles, commentary, and humor. He was the senior writer and editor for a football website, KickoffTime.com.As a self-taught, independent investor, for several years now he has contributed in depth stock analysis articles to major investment magazines and websites. He has written for Equities Magazine, more than 75 articles for QualityStocks.net, as well as nearly 600 articles for the highly regarded educational and informational investment website, Investopedia.com. He has also ghostwritten leading investment newsletters for a private financial company, and his research and analysis is in demand in the investment world.He has also authored several works of fiction, including two novels, several short stories (literary fiction), and has recently published several science fiction stories. He lives in the Cleveland, Ohio area with his wife Marsha.
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The Hard Gainer Report - Greg Sushinsky
The Hard Gainer Report
By Greg Sushinsky
Copyright© 2004, 2011 by Greg Sushinsky
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Table of Contents
Who Is A Hard Gainer?
Hope
Preliminaries: Health
More Preliminaries: Medical
Metabolism
I. NUTRITION
1. Eating
2. How To Gain Weight
More Food
Muscle Foods
3. Maximized Eating (Calorie & Volume Dense Food)
Digestion
4. Protein
5. Bulking Up, Extreme Diets
Water
Supplements
Junk Food
Other Nutritional Approaches
II. TRAINING
1. Physical Base (Foundation)
2. Hard Gainer Weight Training/Bodybuilding
3. Whole Body Routine
Exercise Technique (Form)
Rest Intervals
Poundage Selection & Increases—Safety
Warm-Ups & Stretching
Injuries
4. The Twice Weekly Workout
5. Further Reductions
Layoffs/Training Breaks
Concentrated/Limited Routine
6. Extremely Reduced Training
7. One Exercise Workout (High Rep Squats-the Legendary Growth Workout)
8. High-Rep Deadlifts (The Super Growth Workout)
9. One Exercise Rotation Workout
(More About) High Rep Squats & Deadlifts
10. Limit Training
11. Change: Graduating
To Other Routines
Vary Your Training (& The Value of Conditioning)
12. Volume: Carefully Increased Sets & Reps
Further Modifications—Exercise Changes (Towards Complete Development)
13. Mass-Shape Routine
Isolation-Shaping Routine/Exercises
14. Progressive Change (Continuous Change; Progression)
Other Advanced Training Techniques (Greater Workout Changes)
III. RECOVERY
1. How To Improve Your Gains
Recovery Strategy
Other Physical Activity
2. Synergy of Recovery
Sleep & Rest
3. How To Advance
4. Advanced Hard Gainer Workouts
5. Strength Training For Hard Gainers
6. Hard Gainer Strength Workout
7. Big Three Times Three
Revisiting Other Workouts, Other Techniques
Limit Training Revisited
Limited/Brief Training
Intensity Techniques
8. Getting Back to Basic Training - Reconditioning the Hard Gainer
Conditioning Extras—Micro-Workouts
Where You Go From Here
Ten Growth Principles For Hard Gainers
Additional Hard Gainer Tips
Hard Gainer Frequently Asked Questions
A Simple Blender Drink
About Greg Sushinsky
NOTE: This report concerns the use of nutritional principles and vigorous exercise programs, which can potentially pose physical risks to anyone who may undertake them. No liability is assumed by the author for the use of any of the information in this report. No medical advice or information is intended or implied. You should always exercise safely and you should first consult your health professionals, physicians and/or nutritionists, before using any of the information contained in this publication.
Who is a Hard Gainer?
You are, if you are thin, skinny, underweight, have a difficult time putting on muscle or even gaining a small amount of bodyweight, or are not particularly strong--then you are most likely a hard gainer. While so many people around you are busy--or even obsessed--with trying to lose weight, you are continually trying to gain, or secretly wish you had the problem of weight to lose, or perhaps you have even given up trying to gain weight and muscle size. Maybe you feel you have tried every type of workout, every type of diet; you’ve tried to lift enormous poundages (for you) which are beyond your strength, yet still your bodybuilding results are, by your own standards, close to zero. Don’t give up, don’t despair. If you have given up, try again, but this time we will show you ways you can utilize to reach your goals, so finally you’ll have a chance to achieve your dreams of greater muscle size and strength.
HOPE
There is hope for you as a hard gainer. You need not resign yourself to an unhappy outcome that you won’t ever have a chance at improving your size and strength. You can, if you apply yourself with hard work, care and intelligence, probably realize substantial gains in muscle size and strength. While it’s true that nobody can know the eventual outcome of your size and strength potential, as this is a matter genetically conditioned, it can be seen as a challenge instead of a condemnation to have lower initial potential or more obstacles in your bodybuilding. Others in the past have succeeded, some mightily, in overcoming a seeming tremendous lack of potential, and have become hard gainers who have made good, and some, even great gains. While nobody can rightly guarantee you results, if you learn to apply what we teach you in this report, you may make surprising gains.
Preliminaries: HEALTH
Before we get underway with a discussion of the key hard gainer elements such as nutrition and training, we should mention something about health. Prior to considering how you will go about your bodybuilding, you need to ascertain your general health. Are you in good general health? Perhaps you can best assess this by asking yourself a few simple questions: Do you have ample energy, or are you easily fatigued or tired much of the time? The greater your energy, the more and harder you’ll be able to work out. Are you physically active or not?
If you’re more active, used to working out, you’ll be able to adapt to the workouts more readily than if you’ve been relatively inactive. Do you have allergies or any medical conditions? Allergies, including food allergies, may necessitate that you make certain modifications in your diet; medications may alter how you feel during or after workouts, or may affect your appetite. Have you had surgeries which might prevent you from doing certain