When you’re a hard gainer, it can be pretty tough. It seems like it’s nearly impossible to put on any muscle and that spurs you to question everything that tries to help. Plus when you’re putting on muscle that means weight and potentially fat so you struggle to stay ripped too. It’s tough because this frustrations lead to making a lot of mistakes out of desperation for fast results.
The mistakes that you’re going to learn about not only lead to poor results but no new muscle. Here is what to avoid and what to do instead.
First is not getting enough rest. I’m sure you’ve heard that during your rest, you’re actually building all that new muscle. Your workout is responsible for the ripping down of your muscle, the stimulus for growth and more muscle. It pays the best to get at least one full day of rest between workouts day, but that can change depending on how you workout.
This rest will let your body repair and recover adding strength and muscle to prepare for the next routine. If you want to keep going in the wrong direction, keep exercising too much, that is not how to get ripped.
Second, most guys spend way too much time on their upper body. So many guys want to have a killer chest, arms and stomach. This is why guys tends to spend most if not all of their workout time on upper body exercises. However, the thing about it is your legs are so incredibly important to muscle building.
Your legs are huge muscle groups and not only allow you to burn fat and get ripped, but when you build muscle through your hamstring, butt, and low back, you make it easier for your upper body to gain too.
The third thing is spending a lot of time on tiny muscles. Lots of guys spend tons of time exercising their biceps and triceps and abs too. It’s really a complete waist of time and effort.
Workout routines to build muscle have to involve your biggest muscle groups. Biceps curls pale in comparison to doing chin up for example which hit your biceps plus so much more too. The net gain of doing chin ups and different variations is ten times better than just doing biceps curls alone.
That does not mean that you have neglect biceps curls but they should be an addition to your workout program and not an entire day like so many people do.