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4 Insider Tips For Hard Gainers Struggling To Build Muscle

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The following sponsored article is from Jon Anthony’s Body of an Alpha.

When I was around the age of 14, I weighed a whopping 115 pounds—with my shoes on. For a while I was okay with it. I was okay with playing video games and eating hot pockets all day, coasting through school… but eventually, when puberty kicked in, and those hormones started rushing through my bloodstream, something started to change.

I don’t know if it was the countless women that seemed to flock towards men with muscles, or if it was the allure of having more social status, but something deep inside of me pushed me to start working out. I bought a gym membership at my local Gold’s, bought all the supplements the buff salesman recommended to me, and started hitting the gym immediately. It was only a matter of time until I got jacked, right?

Wrong. After 6 months, hundreds of dollars wasted, and countless hours spent in the gym, I was exactly the same weight. “What the hell?” I thought. I did everything the conventional health experts recommended! I ate the healthy foods, I took the supplements, I worked out exactly like they said to. Why couldn’t I put on any weight?

It wasn’t until YEARS later that I discovered where I went wrong. See, most gym advice out there is geared towards two types of people: fatties trying to lose weight, and average people trying to bulk up. Well, I hate to break it to you, but if you’re a hard gainer, that advice isn’t going to work for you. If you’re a skinny guy who’s struggling to put on weight, you need to ignore 90% of what the “health experts,” are telling you.

How I Gained 30 Pounds of Muscle in Just 3 Months

how to build muscle as skinny guy

I remember when I bought my first bodybuilding program. Every single word of advice in that $97 eBook was marketing gold. The sales page was designed to convert cold traffic at a 20% ratio, the customer support was professional, and the cover was absolutely KILLER. Everything looked great, but there was one problem.

It was complete and utter bullshit. The guy who wrote that eBook wasn’t even jacked. He was a brilliant marketer, yes, but he wasn’t jacked.

He never showed his face, and just paid male fitness models to pose for his eBook cover. I didn’t realize it at the time, but in retrospect it should have been obvious. This is what 90% of the fitness industry is comprised of: marketing geniuses who slap together a few Bodybuilding.com articles into a passable guide, and then outsource everything from designing the cover, to coding the sales page, to creating the video.

And while the advice in these mass-produced, generic eBooks may work for the average Joe, they won’t work for hard gainers, because they’re not written for hard gainers. I’ll never forget what my previous mentor said to me, years ago. He told me that you should find someone who’s where you want to be, and fucking listen to them.

It seems so obvious, but very few people do it. If you want to build muscle as a skinny guy, you have to listen to someone who’s been there and come out on the other side. You have to take advice from someone who’s gone from weighing a measly 115 pounds to a jacked 185 at 6% bodyfat. You have to find someone who’s gone the journey that you’re trying to travel, and who can show you the way. That’s what I plan to do.

Using the following tips, in addition to the gold mine of information I reveal in Body of an Alpha, I was able to put on an ungodly amount of muscle in record time.

1. Ignore Conventional “Dieting” Advice

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Go to your doctor some time and ask him what foods you should eat to be healthy. I’d bet money that he’ll recommend you eat a diet comprised mainly of vegetables, fruits, and lean meats. And while these are great to eat, there’s something that he’s leaving out; something critical.

If you want to bulk up as a hard gainer, you need to eat buckets of carbohydrates. You need to eat at LEAST 300 grams of carbohydrates every single day—when I was preparing for the before and after picture above, I ate 450 grams of carbohydrates per day, in conjunction with the routine I discuss in my eBook.

Carbohydrates are demonized by the mainstream health industry, because most people aren’t hard gainers. If you’re trying to lose weight, cutting out the carbs and following a paleo diet is great, but if you’re a skinny guy trying to build muscle, you NEED those carbs.

Carbohydrates spike a hormone known as insulin, which is a “storage hormone.” In other words, when you eat starches like sweet potatoes, brown rice, and oatmeal, it releases a cascade of chemicals in your body, signalling for it to put on weight. This is obviously bad if you’re fat, but if you’re scrawny? It’s a dream come true.

I recommend you do what’s known as carb-loading. I discuss this in depth in Body of an Alpha, but the idea is that you strategically time your carbohydrate rich meals in order to maximize muscle gain and minimize fat gain. As a hard gainer, you should aim to have 100-150 carbohydrates before your workout, and 100-200 right after.

Aim to consume slow digesting, complex carbohydrates, such as the following:

  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Oatmeal
  • Whole Wheat Pasta/Bread
  • Quinoa
  • Brown Rice

Some have speculated that you should avoid grains, but the data isn’t out on that one yet. You’ll have to see for yourself how you feel after consuming gluten. Personally, I recommend you bulk cook a week’s worth of quinoa and store it in a container for later. Quinoa is the only non-meat based food that is a complete protein, plus it’s got tons of fiber, vitamins, and complex, slow-digesting carbohydrates to help you build muscle ASAP.

2. 90% of Routines Won’t Work For You

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I remember my first personalized workout routine. After paying $100’s in fees for a personal trainer, he told me that he’d designed a custom-tailored, perfect fit routine just for me. It must’ve worked great, right?

Wrong. Most personal trainers, “gurus,” and fitness “experts,” don’t know shit about how to build muscle when you’re a skinny guy. Asking that dude who’s been jacked since age 14 how to build muscle is like asking a trust fund baby how to make money. If you want to know how to get jacked as a hard gainer, you need to ask a hard gainer who’s done it himself.

Most people make one of two mistakes—they either do the typical starting strength type routine, or they follow some ridiculous split. While these have their merits, and you’ll certainly gain some muscle as a hard gainer from these routines, they aren’t optimal.

It took me YEARS to figure this out, but hard gainers respond best to a combination of strength and hypertrophy training. If they focus too much on hypertrophy, they plateau very easily and never gain muscle. If they focus too much on strength training, however, they don’t get any bigger after a certain point (just stronger).

P.H.A.T., which stands for Power Hypertrophy Adaptive Training, is the no-holds-barred, brutal and effective system for hard gainers trying to build muscle, PERIOD. It’s based around two forms of training: power and hypertrophy.

I give a specific workout routine to follow in my eBook, along with an exercise demonstration guide to follow, but this is the model which you want to build your workout around:

  • Day 1: Upper Body Power
  • Day 2: Lower Body Power
  • Day 3: Rest
  • Day 4: Back/Shoulders Hypertrophy
  • Day 5: Legs Hypertrophy
  • Day 6: Chest/Arms Hypertrophy
  • Day 7: Rest

All in all, it comes out to roughly 5 days a week—the power days lasting around 2 hours, and the hypertrophy days being just over 60 minutes. While this may sound like a lot, it’s actually not considering how fast you’ll make progress. Aim to have as many compound lifts as possible, especially for your power days. The bulk of your hypertrophy workouts should be compound lifts, but don’t forget to throw in some auxiliary lifts, as well.

3. Smoothies Are Your Best Friend

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The single greatest discovery I made as a hard gainer was using protein shakes to add an extra 1,000-2,000 calories into my daily diet, because it’s a pain in the ass to eat 1,000 calories worth of brown rice, lean steak, grilled vegetables, and sweet potatoes.

It takes 15 minutes to cook the rice, another 10 for the steak, 10 for the veggies, and 10 to microwave the sweet potatoes, then another 20 minutes to eat, and 10 minutes to clean up. Having to make 3-4 meals like this every single day is WAY too much time.

With shakes, though? You can make a delicious 1,000 calorie protein shake jam-packed with protein, healthy fats, and complex carbs, in just a matter of 2 minutes. In fact, when I first started to understand the power of personalized protein shakes, my gains exploded through the roof.

When I was preparing for my “Before and After” photoshoot, which you saw above, I had AT LEAST two protein shakes from my “Alpha Shakes,” eBook every single day. Here’s two of my favorite recipes for hard gainers:

Monster Mass Shake (1740 Calories)
  • 1 1/2 cups of whole milk
  • 4 scoops of chocolate mutant mass
  • 1 banana
  • 1/2 cup dry oats
  • 2 tbsp almond butter

When you throw all of these ingredients in a blender and mix them together, an aroma not unlike a chocolate milkshake will tantalize your taste buds. This smooth, frothy, and creamy shake has a whopping 78 grams of protein, 49 grams of healthy fats, and 255 grams of carbohydrates. Even the most stubborn of hard gainers will put on weight if he has one of these suckers a day.

Chocolate Honey Hulk (765 Calories)
  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 2 scoops chocolate whey protein
  • 1 tbsp raw honey
  • 1 banana
  • 2 tbsp peanut butter (almond butter if you’re allergic)
  • 2 tbsp cacao powder

What can I say? I absolutely love chocolate shakes—and it shouldn’t be hard to see why. This one has a modest 765 calories, with a high protein to carb ratio. It’s great first thing in the morning or right before bed, to prime your body with muscle-building nutrients meant to take your gains to the next level. 

If you want to get extra serious with the shakes, you can add supplements such as creatine to them, but I’ll save that for the next tip…

4. Use The RIGHT Supplements

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Upon buying a membership to your local gym, you will be bombarded with offers from sleazy salesmen promising you unrealistic gains from ridiculously overpriced supplements. Let me tell you now: you do not need 90% of the supplements that they will recommend to you.

Will they help? Yeah, sure—some of them might. But is an extra 5% increase in your muscle gain worth $149 a month? Of course not. As a hard gainer, focus on sticking with the basics: creatine, a mass gainer, and a pre-workout. Then, if you’d like, you can add some testosterone-boosting supplements on top of this (which I discuss in Body of an Alpha), but only after you have the basics covered.

Creatine is dirt cheap. You can get a year’s supply for like $30, but the impact that it has on your strength is absolutely incredible. By enhancing ATP, your body’s energy synthesis mechanism, it will give you explosive power, the likes of which you’ve never seen before—and best of all, it will make your muscles look fuller, rounder, and pumped up.

Most guys would recommend you buy whey protein isolate, or even concentrate, but if you’re a skinny guy I recommend you buy a mass gainer. These are protein shakes designed SPECIFICALLY with skinny guys in mind, who need some serious nutrients to pack on slabs of muscle. I recommend Rich Piana’s Mutant Mass for all hard gainers, due to its high caloric content, phenomenal ratio of macro-nutrients, and high quality ingredients.

Lastly, is the pre-workout. While many would claim that they’re all hype, I would disagree—good pre-workouts are loaded with nutrients meant to boost blood flow, jack testosterone, and give you incredible laser focus for the most intense workout session you could possibly imagine. My personal favorites are discussed in the Body of an Alpha package, but a great all around pre-workout is GAT’s Nitraflex.

If you’d like to take it to the next level, you can check out Primeval Labs and follow the supplement regimen that I discuss in “Alpha Supplements,” but as a warning, they are NOT for the light-hearted. If you’re under 18, just follow the advice that I laid out—eat a ton of carbs, blend strength and hypertrophy training, down those shakes, and get the key supplements. You’ll be absolutely shredded in no time at all.

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164 thoughts on “4 Insider Tips For Hard Gainers Struggling To Build Muscle”

      1. I should probably mention that I spent those 3 months on the “barely legal steroids,” that I talk about in my “Alpha Supplements,” eBook. Basically a legal oral test cycle.

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    2. Every day I’d wake up and have 5 grams of kratom immediately after getting out of bed. Then I’d go to the bathroom, take a shower, and have another 3 grams of kratom for good measure. After breakfast I’d hop in my car, down another 5 grams of kratom, maybe a fast strain to get me going, and head to the gym. During my workout I’d have 3 grams of kratom, 2 grams per gram, to keep the blood pumping and the muscles strong. Post-workout I’d have my whey protein, with another few grams of protein to speed up recovery. I’d go home, have my post workout meal, with a slow strain of kratom to help me calm my mind. Then, another 3 grams of kratom, a medium strain, to balance out the energy levels. Then I’d go to my computer, get some blogging done, and chug another 10 grams of kratom to keep me going for a few hours, before finally taking 15 grams of kratom to help me pass out and go to bed. It’s tough work, but if you want to get jacked, you’ve gotta be willing to do what it takes, guys.

    6. I havn’t been on this site for over a year (nothing again RoK, just other priorities outside the internet), and I’m happy to see that Kratom is still just as respect as it was when I left.

    7. I get the running joke and all… but is Kratom really ‘like that’? Does anyone actually use it (for energy and focus)?

  2. The dude in the before and after pics had some Kratom, and personal training from Vinny Pringo.

      1. As the pre-eminent worldwide producer of Kratom, Vinny Pringo is happy to accept Gandhi’s endorsement.

      1. You are lucky to have lived being trained by him., however I must warn you, if you mock Vinny Pringo you are taking your own life at risk, he knows where you live.

        4. HA! @disqus_3CmtcmRgli:disqus kinda walked into that one.

        5. I see what you were trying to do there but, maybe you should re-word it?

        8. nah, sometimes balls get dropped and when you drop the ball you leave it there and take your mocking like a man.

        9. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do but, man, if you leave that comment here on ROK…..

        13. Is that like when a ladyboy dropped his balls in PJ’s lap and he was not only okay with it, but sort of recommending it?

        16. I don’t press the post button until I read it back to myself at least three times lol
          And that still doesn’t work all the time.

  3. Kratom, but also understand that fitness is a lifetime commitment.
    Like many a good veteran, I ballooned after getting out of the Army. I’m still in the process of getting back the gains I made as a soldier, but now I voluntarily wake up at 0500 to work out instead of doing it merely because the consequences of not showing up to PT would be…harsh.

    1. Indeed. a certain ne’er do well relative of mine joined the army late (33!) after half a lifetime of screwing around, drinking too much and never exercising a day in his life. When he got out 6 years later he would, just like you say, wake at 5 and go running (running!) every morning by habit.

      1. Gotta give a dude like that credit. If most guys waited until they were 33 to get straightened out it would never happen.

        1. There is a jesus joke to be made here but it is too late in the day and i just finished having a really fucking stupid conversation with someone who pays me so I just had to sit there and accept it.

  4. Every day I’d wake up and have 5 grams of kratom immediately after getting out of bed. Then I’d go to the bathroom, take a shower, and have another 3 grams of kratom for good measure. After breakfast I’d hop in my car, down another 5 grams of kratom, maybe a fast strain to get me going, and head to the gym. During my workout I’d have 3 grams of kratom, 2 grams per gram, to keep the blood pumping and the muscles strong. Post-workout I’d have my whey protein, with another few grams of protein to speed up recovery. I’d go home, have my post workout meal, with a slow strain of kratom to help me calm my mind. Then, another 3 grams of kratom, a medium strain, to balance out the energy levels. Then I’d go to my computer, get some blogging done, and chug another 10 grams of kratom to keep me going for a few hours, before finally taking 15 grams of kratom to help me pass out and go to bed. It’s tough work, but if you want to get jacked, you’ve gotta be willing to do what it takes, guys.

  5. So how much asparagus and eggplant does on need to put on 50 pounds of muscle with no fat gain in 3 weeks?

  6. So other than points 1-4 I don’t see anything incorrect.

      1. I totally gave up on it. Bit coins and computer jammies aren’t my strong suit. However, I do know a little something about a few things and can say that the advice given in this article is grad A bunk

        4. That is the name of the program I put him on. Massive Volume Lying supplemented with Kratom, Phenebut and a defap program…..you thought no fap was extreme, but in my program you actually take away prior faps.

        11. Got to bring your “A” game, Jon, if you want to hang in the Sponsored Article comment section.

  7. Girls complimenting you on your muscles is for the same reason a farmer is buying a strong working horse.

      1. Well, sometimes, when the farmer’s wife hasn’t put out in a really long time…

        2. I wouldn’t know, I’ve never had sex with a horse before… but thanks for that insight.

        3. Fat Latinas are attracted to fat guys in general. It’s a sour grapes thing, I think. Thus, the attraction to purple.

        7. No, they come fat storks, fat purple storks. (I’m just playing the role of the naturally contrary ROK commenter here…controversy sells and shit like that.)

        8. A kid that big doesn’t come from a stork, even a fat purple stork… a kid that big comes from a C-130.

        10. Pity the people who plan about eating food later while eating food and/or those who haven’t yet ate the food they are planning to eat but are dreaming of the meal following it.
          That level of fatness is beyond me.

  9. I was really impressed by this article. And by Jon’s before-and-after photos. And I totally admire the title of the book, “Body of an Alpha” – very slick title and perfectly tailored for the manosphere. Excellent work, Mr. Anthony. You are going to sell a whole shitload of books and/or do virtually anything else to which you set your mind. No doubt about it.

      1. I haven’t been to commercial gyms for a while, is there a new machine to do both now?

        2. It’s been a while since someone put me in the younger generation bracket. Thanks!

        4. Yes, just drop a bitcoin in the slot and it does all the work for you.

        8. Yes, and for a nominal fee you can add kratom to your protein shakes to boost testosterone, increase recovery time, increase your income, and make you grow 5 inches taller.

      2. Credit where credit is due, nothing more, and you’re welcome. Thank you for helping us out with those twin objectives. Patience + Will = A Great Body and Lots of Bitches.

      3. impossible. Fucking bitches leads to taking a nap. After a sammich. Unless you’re a cuck.

    3. He honestly looks like he’s in pretty decent shape in the before photo. I do a lot of hikes where I burn massive calories and such, so I don’t get big. I usually just eat normally and work out. Don’t want to take a bunch of shakes, pills and crap, I just want to work out.
      It does help a lot with mental stuff, that and long hikes.
      I’m at 155, and you can tell I go to the gym. I have defined muscle and such, not just skinny.

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    4. Look into the Dark Triad for Hard Gainers Struggling to Build Muscle, literally (Hitler)

    5. Do you have an information you would suggest forna hard gainer who is struggling to build muscle?

      1. Look below. He mentions that he took barely legal steroids. I’m guessing that’s some kinda prohormone cycle. With steroids or prohormones, it’s not unrealistic to put on 10 pounds of muscle a month while losing fat at the same time- even if you’re an old lifter and hard gainer. He got newbie gains at the same time as getting steroid gains.
        However, I think most people probably aren’t actually hardgainers. Most people who are skinny despite working out are just eating, sleeping, and training wrong. For most people, just doing a combo of strength training (starting strength for newbs, then concurrent periodization for intermediates and advanced lifters) and high rep, 3-5 set to failure isolation exercises, and sleeping 8-10 hours a day will do the trick, so long as an IIFYM diet is followed. Steroids and prohormones come with health side effects, and would only be safe with doctor supervision and blood tests, but training the above way (especially with increased frequency- hitting each muscle >5 times a week while making sure you can recover) can get you 4 pounds of muscle a month instead of the usual 2 naturals would ordinarily be happy to get.

  11. Right now I’m just on the cusp of where I want to be. I’m a hardgainer but have managed to achieve a “ripped” look. I’m sorta “big” but I know I can go higher. I could settle for my current look but the GI Joe look is definitely my end goal.
    I’ve stopped talking mutant mass because it gums up my pores and just makes me feel sluggish. Plus, that shit is tough to drink twice a day. I think regular diet adjustments are perfectly fine. Yes it’s hard to shove food down your throat. but keeping your shcedule and diet STRICT is where you will see a difference. And don’t forget changing up your compound lifts so that you can break those plateaus. I’ve found yoga is GREAT at breaking plateaus and increasing strength with the added benefit of less stress and no threat of injury. Great article Mr. Anthony

    1. Thanks, man. Yoga is great for flexibility, as well – super important unless you want to end up like Jay Cutler, unable to wipe your own ass.

  12. How to gain 30lbs of muscle in 3 months:
    Test (Cyp, Eth, Prop… Doesn’t matter)
    Deca
    Dianabol
    Or:
    Test
    Tren
    Lift (heavy, volume, HIT… Doesn’t matter)
    Eat (6k calories a day… doesn’t matter as long as not junk)
    My method will beat the article’s *Every Fucking Time*

      1. We said 30lbs, not 300lbs!
        Nobody who’s tasted Kratom can forget it! And in Russia, Kratom forgets you!

  14. “Chocolate Honey Hulk” is for sure the name of my band’s followup album to the “You Blonde Cancer Whore” EP.
    Thanks, Jon!

  17. 4 More Tips (from personal experience)…
    1) EAT BIG… 5000 + calories minimum per day from high quality food.
    2) LIFT BIG… Heavy, fundamental compound movements, 5-8 rep range, proper form always.
    3) SLEEP BIG… 8 hours per night minimum, uninterrupted.
    4) SHIT BIG… Invest in a good plunger, you’re going to need it! Added benefit: Plunging movements can actually supplement your Tricep work.

  18. Ill bet being a ‘hard gainer’ is nothing more than being hyperthyroid. The proof would be impulsiveness and high resting heart rate.

    1. Not really. My resting heart rate is 60, which is pretty good for being 37.

        1. Well, I walk a lot and work out, so that’s probably more likely to be the reason for the lower heart rate.

  19. I love the GNC non-lifting GNCuck. Where do they find these skinny or overweight fuckheads trying to sell me snake oil?! Can you not see I am in shape?!?

  20. People who pay to post this type of articles on ROK – do they realize almost no one takes their stuff seriously? Everything turnes into Kratomofest…every single time.

  23. If your just starting out I’d recommend the 5×5 routine (squats, bench, deadlift, barbell-rows, military/overhead press) you can “google” it for the specifics.

  24. This article is exactly the kind of garbage it purports to scare people away from. ” it comes out to roughly
    5 days a week—the power days lasting around 2 hours, and the
    hypertrophy days being just over 60 minutes”–yeah, good luck with that.

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    1. check out this skinny fuck who pounds down eddie hall’s entire daily 10k calorie diet in one sitting

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  28. If you’re a hard gainer, and want to get big, just take steroids. Like everyone else who’s big does.

  29. The Kratom jokes are old. They were funny for about 10 minutes but after 2 years it’s just corny.

  30. Simple, Kratom laced with a speck of Test Propionate. Nothing more to be said, moving on…

  31. I’m 5’11, 155 currently. Not really trying to get huge. I prefer being really shredded and strong for my size. Biggest I ever got was 165, and I looked(and was) in amazing shape. Did the AT in 2010 and lost it all. Worked out 2 hours a day, 6 days a week.
    I walk a lot(40 miles a week) in addition to workouts. This doesn’t include multiday hikes when I do up to 70 miles in a few days.
    I wouldn’t mind staying my current weight, or gaining a bit, but not looking to get really big. I like the way it looks, honestly. I’m slowly ramping up my workouts again. Don’t really want to get above 160 or so.

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  33. If you have trouble gaining muscle, you need to add calories to your diet. The idea to supplement caloric intake with protein shakes is a great idea, its easier to add calories to your diet in liquid form than more solid food. The only thing is that you won’t exclusively gain muscle in the process, you will also gain some fat. But that is what “cutting” is all about, its to lose body fat to gain muscle definition.
    Also adding calories means quality calories, not pizzas and Whoppers and fried chicken and cola and beer.

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