Newsgroup: it.sport
Titolo: Hard Gainer needs Advice

Hi there,
I've been weightlifting for the past four months and I am becoming very 
frustrated about it. Not that I am expecting to turn myself into 'Mr. 
Olympia' in such a short time but, everytime my personal trainer asses me, 
instead of growing bigger, I am getting smaller. Today, he did it again 
and the word hardgainer appeared for the first time.
I've been weighlifting three times a week and I also do the treadmill three 
times a week for half and hour. I am 5'6'' tall, weigh 142 pounds and my 
body fat percentage is 19.5. I've also been on a diet for the last five 
months. Sometimes I have up to seven meals a day, all of them full of proteins 
and carbohydrates. 
The fact is, nothing seems to be working and today I felt like giving up. 
I wouldn't like to do so because it had always been my dream to look 
stronger and now, I have time to dedicate myself to this sport. I forgot 
to say that I am 35.
Well, I hope there is somebody out there who can give some advice on what 
I could do to improve my body condition. It is very expensive to hire a 
personal trainer and I am getting the feeling that I am just wasting my 
time and money.
Thanks in advance,
Marcelo
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why am i getting a picture of you wearing a richard simmons headband
with a towel draped around your neck, gingerly playing with the Nautilus
machines and chatting with the ladies?
make sure you're eating real food (and supplements) and lifting real
weights.
for starters, get a powerlifting barbell and load it to the basic weight
of 135 and see what you can do in strict form (safely) on the bench
press and the deadlift.  also, get yourself on the pullup bar.
by the time you can bench 225 strictly for 10 reps, do 15 or 20 pullups,
and have a commensurate performance in the deadlift/squat, you won't
look or feel like a little boy anymore.  you CAN do it; it won't take as
long as you think! and you'll just get stronger from there if you
continue.
get rid of the fucking towel around your neck and throw away the goddamn
nautilus machine pin.
you sound like you have the desire but you need the right gameplan.  
Rome
High Intensity.  Briefly.  Infrequently. (that's what she said)
"Rome wasn't built in a day"

CA...@worldnet.att.net
 wrote:
: Hi there,
: [snip]
: I wouldn't like to do so because it had always been my dream to look 
: stronger and now, I have time to dedicate myself to this sport. I forgot 
: to say that I am 35.
35? Big deal.
: Well, I hope there is somebody out there who can give some advice on what 
: I could do to improve my body condition. 
Persistency. Do basic compound exercises with heavy weight. Take a look a
the Hardgainer FAQ and you will see the same advice. You don't even need
to do it every day or every other day. Otherwise you would be overtrained.
: It is very expensive to hire a 
: personal trainer and I am getting the feeling that I am just wasting my 
: time and money.
Then don't. Many people don't have a personal or whatever trainer and they
keep getting stronger and healthier. 
Regards,
D Chan