| Hard gainers don't need bodybuilding supplements. | | | | Why creatine won't help a hard gainer: |
| The notion of it is silly. You're a hard gainer | | | | Creatine is a supplement that can slightly increase |
| because you're skinny and you're skinny because | | | | your energy levels and will also hydrate your cells |
| you don't eat a lot of food. In order to put on | | | | a lot more. This leads to your muscles filling up |
| weight you just need to eat more food and from | | | | with water and appearing larger and/or bloated. |
| better sources. Whey can help you do this, but it's | | | | This is not actual muscle gain and it will disappear |
| generally useless because it's very easy to get | | | | as soon as you get off the creatine. It has no |
| enough protein for your day just by eating a large | | | | real affect on your muscles other than making |
| can of tuna and then maybe another meat | | | | them look ballooned. As for the energy gain; it's |
| somewhere else during the day. For most hard | | | | almost negligible and most people don't even |
| gainers, that'll be plenty. | | | | notice it. What you will notice, however, are the |
| So why do supplement companies push them on | | | | more frequent bowel movements. Creatine should |
| us so much? Well, the answer is pretty simple: | | | | only be used when trying to break through a |
| They're trying to make money. It's a bit more | | | | plateau when that little bit of extra energy will |
| complicated than that; once you plateau, | | | | actually be useful. |
| supplements can be useful in helping break past it | | | | The truth about NO products: |
| and move on to the next level, but hard gainers | | | | Most of these products claim to give you a ton |
| don't have that issue. I've worked with a lot of | | | | of energy but really all they do is throw a bunch |
| skinny people and the problem is always that they | | | | of caffeine your way so you feel like you have |
| don't eat enough. They think they eat a lot, but if | | | | more energy when you really don't. This'll cause |
| you make them weight out their food and count | | | | you to burn yourself out and will actually lead to |
| their calories, you'll find that they're really not | | | | overtraining and muscle loss in the long run. This is |
| eating much at all. | | | | the last thing any hard gainer wants. |