Skinny hardgainers who are new to the lifting game tend to overtrain without even knowing it. They think the more the better, but oh are they mistaken. Every time you lift, you dip into your body's energy reserves to fuel your muscles. However unfortunately, those are the same reserves used to build and feed the muscles after your workout. The more often you lift, the fewer sources you leave your ... more.

So you've tried a bunch of other "hardgainer workouts" eh? Don't feel like its giving you the best you can get? Well why don't you try something much more drastic and see if your body responds to this better. Since you've most likely tried adding more weight or adding more reps lets go in the other direction. We will significantly scale down our workouts and watch and be surprised by your body's r... more.

As an ectomorph and a hardgainer, you are not going to be doing the same workout routines as other people. Most of us make the same mistake by following the exact workout routines of professional body builders and thinking we'll get massive results by copying these guys. WRONG. As an ectomorph and a hardgainer, we have to focus on what our body is capable of and what is best for our body. Below ar... more.

If you are a skinny guy new to bodybuilding, you will probably be one of those guys that ignore legs and back thinking that it does not add to making you look "better". You want the chests, the biceps... but not the massive legs - yet at the same time you want to be bigger. Big mistake! Most beginner bodybuilders hate working legs and look for an excuse to not work them. They are told it helps rel... more.

In almost all muscle work outs, the most overlooked area would have to be any exercise for neck muscles. Most people fail to give it much thought, but that can be a mistake for several different reasons, especially if you have a "pencilneck", which is the neck size as big as a pencil. Let's take a look at how to build neck muscles and why it's so important. Take a moment to think about how ... more.

Compound exercises with free weights are the true and only effective tools to gain lean weight and to look bigger. Isolation exercises with cables or machines will not work if you are a scrawny guy trying to pack on as much muscle as possible. If you watch TV and watch the professionals, bodybuilding is full of workout routines focused on multiple sets per muscle,  and people look up to... more.

In order for you to gain 20 lbs. of muscle you will have to gain a lot more then 20 lbs. of bodyweight. It is almost impossible to gain a pound of lean muscle for every pound of weight that you gain. I recommend that over the course of the next several months you should bulk up to at least 210 lbs. (I'll show you how to do this in a minute :-) By bulking up to t... more.

This is a description of Bill Starr’s strength training program described in The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football (1976). I recommend reading Bill Starr’s book, even if you’re not a football player. What Are The Big Three? The Big Three are the Squat, Bench Press & Power Clean. The reason Bill Starr chooses these movements is that they build strength in all ma... more.

If you are a beginner to strength training and a skinny guy you have a hard task ahead of you. If you really want to gain serious muscle and look great at the beach you have to really work hard, but more importantly than that you need to work smart. The exercises you need to focus on doing are overhead presses, bench presses, chin ups and pull ups and for your lower body the two musts ... more.