Are you a Hardgainer?
Or are you just making it hard on yourself to make gains?
Listen, if you're having a hard time putting on muscle, then you and I need to talk, today.
What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Coach Cavaliere, today, actually, because I'm going to talk to you real, right.
We're going to keep it real today because we're going to talk man-to-man about being
a Hardgainer.
You know why I can talk to you about being a Hardgainer?
Because I was one.
I was one, meaning in the past.
You see, I grew up not being able to put on muscle, right, and that's probably why you're
watching this video, is that you struggle to put on muscle.
So, you think that you're a Hardgainer.
And I felt it for a long time.
I was told I was for a long time.
You know I did tests that told me I was a Hardgainer.
I used to look at bone size and measure my wrist.
I have the skinniest Goddamned wrists you're ever going to see.
They're feminine for crying out loud, ok.
But people would say that, You can't put on muscle, you got small wrists.
You're doomed by your bone structure.
You're doomed because your parents just gave you the worst genetics.
My 5-foot-tall Mother, my 5ft 9 Father.
Nobody over 160 pounds.
Alright, I was doomed.
Guys, the biggest mistake Hardgainers make is listening to that kind of stuff,
is thinking deeply within that they're limited because of something that they were born with.
That's a big mistake, ok.
So, what I want to tell you guys today is, You gotta start changing your mindset, and
I'm going to help you do that right now.
Because there's 4 ways that this translates into the gym, into our workouts and everything
we do.
And that's what keeps us living the life of a Hardgainer when it doesn't have to be the
case.
It's caring about how you look.
That is the number 1 mistake that guys will make as a Hardgainer, caring about how you
look.
So much so that I'm going to show you 2 exercises here that we've covered in the past on my
channel that certain guys will refrain from.
Despite all the science of what I've shown you why they're superior, people will refrain
from them because they're scared about how they'll look performing them in the gym.
And that they'll stand out.
So, let me show you what this one is.
Right here, this is our tricep Push Down variation.
Alright, I've shown you in this video how when we do the exercise in this manner with
this slight tweek
that we can change the strength curve to actually have resistance on the muscle that we're trying
to hit throughout the range of motion.
As opposed to a traditional Push Down where we're limited and we're actually cutting that
off halfway.
Or this variation of a Cable Crossover, right.
We have the traditional Cable Crossover, or we've got this 3D Chest Crossover
where I'm able to incorporate and work muscles together that prefer to work together, right?
I still get a major effect on the chest.
As a matter of fact, I can lift more because of the assistance of the abs that allows the
chest to overload even easier.
But people won't do it because they're afraid that they're going to look weird or stand
out.
And my question is, What are you there for in the first place?
To fit in?
Or to stand out?
The guys I work with don't want to fit in.
My Pro Athletes want to stand out in everything they do.
They want to be better than everybody else.
They want to be the best at what they do.
And I encourage you, if you're a Hardgainer, to want to stand out.
Ok.
Trust in what you're doing.
Yeah, you might stand out for those 30 seconds, 45 seconds, a minute that you're doing that
exercise.
God forbid you do it for 3 or 4 sets, that's 3 or 4 minutes.
But what are you going to look like?
How's that going to change you over time if you stay committed to it?
And you're committed in your own belief of doing it.
That's going to matter, guys.
That's where you're not going to fall victim to the Hardgainer mistake here.
Another thing, guys will actually spend extra time in the gym even if they're done in 40
minutes or 30 minutes
because they're afraid that that girl at the front counter might see you walking out 30
minutes after you came in.
And she'll be thinking, Geez, he took it so easy on himself, wow, what a wimp.
It's a little bang away at some forearm work and ab work just to fill some extra time.
I have a suggestion for you.
Try leaving early.
You might even get her to think that you have a life by leaving early because you got places
to be.
If you're done with your work, then get out of there, guys.
I've said all the time, stimulate and overload, and then get out of there.
Don't continue to annihilate.
If you've done what you need to do, and you've stimulated to create overload.
I mean leaving it out there on the gym as hard as you could, then get out.
Leave.
Again, you might impress her, and it might actually help you to build muscle, and stop
calling yourself a Hardgainer.
Thirdly, guys are scared about the faces that they make.
You know the faces, like when you're really trying to push hard and you got those ugly
looking faces?
I got an ugly face that gets uglier when I train.
It's a good thing because it means I'm working hard.
I train athletes that are ugly guys, big strong ugly guys.
They look downright ugly when they're training.
And you know what?
They don't care.
They don't care because they know that that ugly face correlates with high effort.
High effort leads to high results, or good results, whatever you want to say, but they're
good, alright?
So, stop caring about the faces that you're making, and certainly, don't go to the gym
and start reaching for dumbbells
and loading up weight plates and select drive pins going all the way down to the bottom
to try to impress somebody else.
Thinking that you should be lifting more.
Because I'm telling you guys, I made that mistake too.
I lifted weights I couldn't handle.
All I did was put pressure everywhere but on the muscle I was trying to work.
And you know what?
The muscles never grow.
They were never growing.
So we have to make sure that if you want the muscles to grow, you put the stress where
it's supposed to be.
Guess where.
On the muscles.
So, make them do the work, right.
Use the weight that's appropriate for you.
Because you know what happens?
Ten becomes 15, 15s become 20s, 20s become 80s, if you stay consistent with it and believe
in it.
So, this is the coaching part of me, guys.
This is the part that kind of frustrates me, but it's what I need you to understand.
You got to start believing in yourself.
Stop worrying about what others think of you.
Stop worrying about what you look like so that you can start enjoying what you look
like.
You know what I mean?
Who cares what you look like today and what you're doing in order to improve what you
look like.
You have to make sure that you're committed to what you're doing.
And I say it all the time, guys, whether it's the exercises we show you here, alright
they're not for everybody, but they're backed in science and they work.
And these modifications are not just to be different.
These modifications are to help you.
So, if you institute these changes, and you start putting that effort in
because that effort is a prerequisite, you better leave it out there in those 30-40 minutes.
Leave everything you got.
And if you do that, and you stay consistent, you're going to start to see dramatic results.
And you're going to start to believe in yourself and stop labeling yourself as a Hardgainer
because guess what.
These little feminine wrists I got, they can push a lot of weight, alright.
And they can now carry some good muscle mass that I never had before.
And if I left myself to believe that this was going to dictate everything I was going
to be able to become, I wouldn't become shit.
So, guys, get out there.
Train hard.
Stop thinking negatively.
Start thinking about what you can do, and stop caring what other people say.
If you guys want a workout program that I believe in, and I believe brings you guys
the best possible results that you can get?
Then head to ATHLEANX.COM, and follow my system.
Let me coach you.
Let me take you from where you are and get you to a better place.
I'm always glad for the opportunity, and I thank you again for always watching my videos.
Alright, guys, leave your comments below.
Let me know if you're no longer going to be a Hardgainer as of today.
And I love to see the comment.
Alright, guys, be back here again in just a few days with another video.