Hardgainer Diet - Eat like a Powerhouse, Become a Powerhouse

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Hardgainer Diet - The Transformation Fuel

I want you to picture for a moment that your are driving a car down the road and it runs out of gas. It doesn't matter how many times you try to start it, push the gas pedal, or go out and drop kick it, it is not going to start until you refuel it.

What a lot of people don't realize is that your body works on the same principles as that car does. It does not matter how many reps you do, or what kind of exercises you do if you are not providing your body with the correct fuel it is not going to grow.

The proper hardgainer diet is absolutely essential for you to succeed in packing on muscle. To get your hardgainer diet plan visit HardGainerSuccess.com

The Basics of how your body uses food 

Learn how the body uses the food you eat

In order to help you understand why your diet is important, you first need to understand how the body used food. Now I could litterally sit here and write an entire book on how the body uses food but I am just going to give you the basics of it.

There are basically 3 things that your body uses and those are carbohydrates, proteins and fats. The 2 that I want to focus on are carbs and protein.

When you workout and apply more strain to your muscles than they are used to, they start to tear and breakdown. These are just very small minor tears within the muscle. Your muscles then have to repair themselves, so they use protein chains in order to start repairing and filing in the tears that the muscle has sustained. These repairs is what causes the muscle to grow in size.

Alright so now that you know the very basics of how your muscles grow, I will explain why carbs and protein are important. Carbohydrates are what gives your body fuel, carbs are broken down into simple sugars and provide your body with energy.

Proteins are the building blocks of the body, these are the nutrients that are going to help repair your muscles, and provide your body with what it needs to build.

Why the Hardgainer Diet is so important 

How a poor Diet can cause you to Fail

As we learned in the previous paragraph a proper diet is essential for anybody looking to gain mass. This is true for both hardgainers and non hardgainers. When it comes to the hardgainers however the importance of a proper hardgainer diet is multiplied.

A hardgainer has specific body traits that are unique to a hardgainers body(ectomorph). One of the biggest traits that makes diet so important for hardgainers is that your body's metabolism is always running at mach speed.

What does this mean?

A hardgainers body is like any other body; it needs fuel and nutrients in order to build muscle, however because your metabolism is always fast and ramped up it means that you run out of fuel a lot faster than a non hardgainer.

Think of it like this, a non hardgainer fuel consumption would be like that of a small sedan, and a hardgainers fuel consumption would be like that of an old hummer.

This is why hardgainers have to make sure that they are eating like crazy, it is not uncommon for a hardgainer to eat between 3-6 thousand calories a day in order to gain muscle.

5 Hardgainer Diet Tips 

Just a few tips that will help keep you on track

Ok so we have determined that hardgainer's is essential for gaining muscle, but what is meant by a proper diet. How do we know what a proper diet consists of. Here are a few tips to keep you on track when looking for a good hardgainer diet.

1. It is recommended that you consume at least 1gram of protein per lb of body weight
2. Find out how many calories you burn in a day and add 750 calories on top of that.
3. Hardgainers should stick to a ratio of 50% carbs, 25% protein and 25% fat
4. Water is essential not only to rehydrate your body but to slow down digestion
5. Stick to complex carbohydrate foods, such as whole grain bread, pasta, beans etc. these foods take longer to break down, and give you more sustainable energy.

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