Hardgainer Meal Plans For Maximum Muscle Gain

One of the most important parts of planning your meals for the skinny guy is your calorie target. This can be a complex process as you need to work out a number of different factors that drain your energy and then you need to determine how much energy you will need beyond that to repair and grow your muscles after workouts.

The energy drain variables are:

• Your Resting Metabolic Rate or RMR - This is the amount of calories your body burns during a day doing nothing at all except living!
  
• your calorie cost from general exercise (not your workouts yet) - This is your general exercises such as working at your job and all the walking around doing the daily things you need to.
  
• Your Calorie cost for your workouts - Weight lifting, circuit training, cardio work etc
  
• The energy expenditure from digesting food - While food gives you energy it does take energy to digest ... this is called the thermal effect of food.

Once you get all this information together you have your maintenance level of calories for each day of training. By using this amount of calories every day one those days you DONT train you will be in caloric surplus which gives you the energy you need to build muscle when your body is resting and in repair mode.

Now comes the real planning part of the equation. While you may know how many calories you need you also need to know what foods you should get them from. Hardgainers and skinny guys are often accused of having quit bad diets because their genetics allows you to eat pretty much anything without putting on a huge amount of weight. These are often the wrong sorts of foods to stay healthy and to help with muscle growth.

In general you want a diet that is low in fat, high in protein and using complex carbohydrates from natural unprocessed food. This may sound like some sort of weigth watching advertisement but the real way to gain muscle is with high calories that the body can use well and with weight loss is with low calories with the right foods that yoru body can process well so its got a similar ring to it.

The reasons for this are many and usually revolve around how quickly the body burns up certain sugars where the more natural less processed foods give longer lasting energy and of course cause less health problems.

Some great foods to get you from skinny to muscle are:

• Boneless Chicken breast
  
• Dried fruit
  
• Nuts
  
• Legumes
  
• Eggs & Egg whites
  
• Lean Ground sirloin
  
• A Variety of Fruit and Vegetables
  
• Other lean meats, fish and poultry

As you can see the trick to muscle gain foods is good healthy foods and variety so you get all the things you need and it dopes not become monotonous.

Planning hardgainer meals can be a major hassle but the benefits are enormous. The metabolism differences between you as a skinny guy and other guys can be a real killer to your muscle building efforts so having the right plan for eating can be the biggest way to level the playing field and give you the best chance at maximum muscle gain.

However doing this can really cut into your time researching every last food and it's calorie value then planning meals around this for every day of the week.

Did I also mention you should be eating 4-6 meals a day also with these plans?

If you are a master chef and are great with this stuff and organization then you will be fine but if you are at all worried about getting your hardgainer meal plans right so you do not sabotage your body building and waste your time and energy then you might be interested in a guide that can help you in this regard.

The No-Nonsense Muscle Building Guide is written by an ex-skinny guy who knows what he is talking about when it comes to muscle gain and especially diet and meal plan. The guide is fully downloadable and contains exact formulas to calculate your calorie targets along with comprehensive pre-made meal plans so all the effort for planning your meals is completely taken care of!

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