All Men Are Not The Same

  A touchy topic, we are all different, none of us are the same, some of us are tall, some are short, some are tall, some are fat, some are skinny, some have bigger bones, some smaller, some have longer legs, and short etc, one guy might have long legs, but short arms, the next guy might have short legs, and long arms, one guy might have more muscle mass than another.

  We are all different. In bodybuilding we have what they call easy gainers, and hard gainers. The easy gainer is the one who starts lifting and packs on muscle fast, the hard gainer puts on muscle slowly compared to the lucky easy gainer, the easy gainer is rare, he is maybe one in 50 men, depending on what you call easy. we have endomorphs who are typicly round and fat, but still can pack on muscle, but the fat usually hides it, we have mesomorphs, who are not fat, but not skinny, they can pack on muscle and not get fat , then we have ectomorphs, they are the slender built skinny guy who can't gain muscle or fat easy. he is full of energy, eats crap, eats little good food, is always active and running around, and hogs his food down. No wander he can't gain weight.

Why A Lot Of Hard Gainers Are Really Easy Gainers And Don't Know It

  It's true. If your skinny, and your not gaining weight and power, you plain and simple might not be eating enough. Some people don't have to eat a lot and get big when they lift weights, thats cause their matabolisum is slower, and they probably eat more than you think anyway. If average Joe needs 2,000 calories a day to keep his 160 lbs, he is not going to gain muscle eating 2,000 calories a day. That 2,000 calories is for maintaining his already plain 160 lbs, he can work out, but the muscles have no resources to grab your body is like a brick wall. It's always repairing the wall to maintain say it's size. It has a guy taking old bricks off and replacing them with new ones if you exercise, it's like having 2 - 3 men taking old bricks out, but there's no extra new bricks to replace the extra old bricks being taken out when you eat more, you have more bricks, your wall will get bigger it takes 3,500 calories to build one pound of muscle. If your not eating more than your body is using in it's daily energy, you will not gain weight of any kind. If you want to gain say 10 lbs of muscle in a year, your going to have to take an extra 35,000 more calories in that year than your body uses. This is less than an extra 100 calories a day but it's better to be over than under.

  We are not into birdfood. you have heard of the Barbarian Brothers: David Peter and David Paul. They have fast motabolisums and if they only ate 2,500 calories a day, they wouldn't get big, would you say they have bad genetics? well they can press behid neck 330 lbs for 10 reps, bench over 600, and curl 170 lb dumbells for 4 - 5 reps that is not bad genes but if they didn't eat 8,000 - 9,000 calories a day, you'd never know. Big Lou Ferrigno who was 6'5" and 330 lbs ripped in not exactly pee wee Herman but he had to eat up to 10,000 calories a day. He was skinny as a kid but he is more massive than Victor Richard. who was big before he ate good and lifted.Victor Richards eats up to 30,000 calories a day,16 pounds of rice a day and you can still see his stomach muscles he is lucky though, because he doesn't have to eat real big to stay big, he would still be 260 lbs or more ( instead of 290 ) on 6,000 calories a day but Lou is bigger, and Lou has great gnetics but like I said if he lifted hard, and ate only 2,500 calories a day, he'd never got over 200 lbs, you would never have known about him and the gym rays would hve considered him a hard gainer with poor genetc potentual but in real life, he ate good, and is big and strong. He has compeated at 320 lbs ripped at the 1992 Mr. Olympia that is bigger than and bodybuilder has ever competed. Even Grag Kovacs, doesn't come in a big a Ferrigno in contest shape and ripped. Although kovacs is 400 lbs of almost pure muscle in the off season, Kovacs compeated at his biggest at 310 - 307 lbs. about 10 lbs less than Big Lou. Lou would stay shreaded all year, maybe go to 330 lbs. But you get the point. Eating like a bird will keep your genetic potentual locked up.

Geneticly Gifted People At The Gym

  I have been to many Gym's and seen many men workout, and every so often you see one big powerful guy who is head and heals above all. Is he gifted geneticly? Could be you can look around and see other big built guys who seem to have good genetics on thier side. If your a typicle avg hard gainer, then you look at them in envey. Somtimes you can talk to them, and they be modest, and say ,"well, I am lucky I have good gens. etc" Other bodybuilders will tell you that you are waisting your ime and money, and that your just not made to be big and strong, and that he was just lucky to have such great genetics from his dad and / or mom. I have heard it lots of times. A lot of them brag that they did 300 lbs when they was 16-17 years old, or how they got 400 lbs, and your still in the low 200 lbs, and they kinda snicker at you. Sometimes you just think you might as well give up. Don't let me explain. I hear a lot of Gym rats brag, some of the stronger ones think they are genetic gods. it's true. They really think they are better than 99.999% of all other lifters. Stupid!!! reallly egotisticle. even if they are on streroids, and can bench 460 lbs, they claim they would still be way stronger than the avg man who worked out could get if they didn't take them. It wouldn't matter they'd say the truth is they are probabaly gargling down a gallon of roids a day. Taking $100 plus worth of amino acids a week and eating 6 - 7,000 calories a day or maybe less if they have slow metaboliums. if you eat 5 - 6,000 calories a day, eat a dozen eggs a day, and a half gallon of milk with all your other foods, and take amino acids, you'll get big, and if you take those expensive amino acids that are $100 a week and some expensive steroids, you'll get huge and in a few yrs you'll be in the top 10 of your Gym. Don't let them fool you, they are just jealous you'll get big and catch up to them if you do what they do, so they tell you not made for it. Who cares, let them take thier drugs, and then a year later you are still lifting and see one at the mall and he looks like he lost 70 lbs ( he stoped the roids for awile ), and your bigger than him now, you'll know what I'm talkig about been there, done that true! it's so cool.

  If you want to know who might be genetic gods, well Grag Kovacs is high on the list, Lou Ferrigno is up there, Manfred Hoberal, Victor Richards etc. Powerlifters like Bill Kazmayer was a true powerhouse. Curl king Doug Hepbern who at 290 lbs could strict curl 270 lbs, and said that that record still stands. Bench press kings like Anthony Clark ( 775 lbs ), Ken Lain and Ted Arcdi who both did around 740 lbs, Paul Anderson who could squat 1,200 lbs for 2 reps and 300 lbs. Louis Cry who could clean and jerk 310 lbs over his head with one arm back in the early 1910's ( considering streroids was not even known of back then ), and did over 270 lbs with his left arm.

Tall Men Are Not Made For Bench Presses But They Are Just As Strong

  Short people generally have short arms, and tall people usually have long arms. Everyone thinks tall poeple have it all. Generally short poeple with short arms bench press more weight than tall people do. If you take a 5'8" 200 lbs powerlifter, and a 6'2" 230 lbs powerlfter, the short one will almost always bench more weight. If you are tall and skinny, and you go to the gym and see some short guy with short arms benching 350 lbs, and you are 6'2' and can only do 300 lbs. Don't get depressed, they are lifting more weight, but they are also lifing more weight less distance more than likely you could bench 350 lbs if you only had to lift it 13 inches, instead of 21 inches etc. The short guy will get mad if you try and explain this to him. In a lot of cases you can lift more weight for the same distance than he can. So learn to live with the fact you are just moving big weight a longer travel, you have a much longer sticking point and you have to save energy for that longer travel, than just explode it in 9-11 inches. I have seen tall people put boards on their chest and train like that to shorten thier becnh travel and they gain from 250 lbs to 320 lbs in two weeks but it isn't worth it. In a powerlift compatition the short guy will have an edge, but say it's wrestling, you'll be even. Learn to live with what you got, sometimes it looks bad, but it's only bad if you look at it bad powerlifting is for short people. The shorter the better, but you still have to have bulk. Bill Kazmayer was 6'1", and he had long arms, his 661 lbs bench was amazing, considering it wasn't a short shit 2 inch bench press like some new powerlifters do. Some of them have such short arms, and big chests, they are already almost locked out at the beginning of the bench lift. They are not really stronger, just they don't have to lift it as far. so your not doing that bad after all.