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Originally Posted by freefighter2010  Guys,
No matter how much I eat meat, rice, vegetables and workout using heavy weights i can never put on muscle mass. I dont even put on fat !!. Its like i got this high metabolic rate and when i do eat more meat. I just seem to go to the toilet and excrete it.
Do you think steriods could work for me ?. I am in the UK so I GUESS certain steriods are banned.
Thanks,
FF |
I hear you brother. I am the ectomorph’s ectomorph, from a long line of long thin men, the original hard gainer.
In my 20’s I tried pretty much every workout program, diet and supplement you can think of. Nothing worked for my lifestyle, the approaches are mostly unrealistic to anyone who isn’t a professional athlete. The kind of “hard gainer” workouts and diets you find in Bodybuilding magazines and websites are designed for people who don’t have a job, or a life, but have an endless supply of money.
I was once sent a hard gainer’s diet that demanded I eat all kinds of wonderful meat and vegetable dishes 7 times a day. Yeah, thing is I spend most of my days in meetings, on the phone or giving presentations. “Excuse me gentlemen, but before we move on to agenda point 4, I just need to boil some brown rice and fillet this tuna”. At one point I think my food bill was about £800 a month, and my supplements bill was about half that. All the plans also recommended complete rest in between heavy weights workouts, yeah problem there is I have about six different martial arts systems to progress in, so I can’t sit around eating egg whites 4 nights a week.
So in the end I thought balls to it. I’m 32, 6ft 1in, 75kg and about 7% body fat. I think that’s pretty good shape, I hit hard, have good core strength, and good isometric strength. You’ve got to work with what you have, and be happy with who you are. As it turns out, my weight and build have proven to be my greatest asset in the world of Boxing, there aren’t many middleweights built like me.
So after years of going to the toilet about 4 times a day, crapping out hundreds of pounds worth of food and supplements, I thought what a waste of life. Like Mr Schwarzenegger said – you can’t fight your genetics.