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You may have been thinking of yourself as a hardgainer because you've had trouble building muscle recently. Is this label really accurate? Just because you're a skinny guy who's having trouble gaining some muscle weight doesn't mean you should label yourself with such a negative title like hardgainer.
If you've spent some considerable time trying to build a more muscular appearance but haven't had much success, you may be tempted to label yourself as a hardgainer. Your colleagues in the gym may have even given this label to you. Is there really such thing as a hardgainer?
The debate between nurture vs. nature has been going on for a long time, and many have gone so far as to blame their entire circumstances on their genetic inheritance or their upbringing. It might be tempting to blame all your failures on genetics. However, before we start to blame our parents for the genes that they passed on to us, we may want to take a minute and examine our actions that have led to failure. Of course every individual has unique abilities and genetic advantages. Certainly some individuals possess greater intelligence than others, and it seems fairly obvious that some trainees have a strong tendency to gain muscle with less effort. Should you give up because of this? I don't think so.
You may have to accept the reality that gaining muscle is not going to be a walk in the park for you, and you probably need to forget about those guys that seem to make progress almost effortlessly. If you're willing to make the commitment to obtain the right knowledge, and if you accept the possibility that you'll need to work a little harder than the next guy, you will be able to make significant gains. You need to take on a challenging program of progressive strength training along with an adequate weight gain diet.
You must change your attitude and believe that you can gain muscle. Believe it or not, your way of thinking can dramatically influence your results in the gym. If you enter a weightlifting program with the idea that you're not going to succeed, you've already limited your results from the very beginning. Every obstacle will seem greater until it appears to be insurmountable. If you start by telling yourself that it can't be done, then your mind will not be able to find creative solutions - hope leads to creativity. So what's the solution? First, drop the title of hardgainer. Then get yourself in a comprehensive muscle building program designed to build massive gains as quickly and naturally as possible.
You want to wear a copper bracelet to help alleviate the pain of arthritis? How silly is THAT? It's almost as silly as chewing willow tree bark to alleviate the pain of headaches! Both remedies have been around for millennia. We now use artificial tree bark in aspirin but we still wear pure thermal copper bracelets to ease joint pain.
But does copper work? Yes, we believe it does. Copper, as a trace element, is absolutely essential to human health and well being. As far back as 2400BC, copper was used to sterilize water and to cure a variety of ailments in humans and domestic animals. Around 400BC, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed copper, not just for joint disease, but to cure varicose veins and to heal open wounds. Researchers for modern day big drug companies have discovered that copper seems to be part of the fountain of youth. They are adding copper to their body lotions and face creams and telling us that copper deficiency leads to wrinkles and sagging skin.
The average adult body should have a copper reserve of approximately 100 milligrams. We need to replenish this reserve by adding about 3 mg per day. In fact, most of us don't have 100 milligrams of copper in our bodies and we don't add 3 mg per day through our diet or otherwise. Copper deficiency leads to a plethora of malfunctions in the body. An essential role of copper is to activate the enzymes essential to health. Another is to assist in the synthesis and maintenance of bone and connective tissue. Since arthritis is a disease of joint and bone, you can see how supplementing our copper reserve should help to ease the pain of this crippling disease.
So, how to we get the copper into our system? Well, we can take zinc and copper supplements (they're usually bracketed together). That will give us an arbitrary amount, maybe too little or too much. Wouldn't it perhaps be better to devise a system in which the body draws the copper it needs from a readily available source? That sounds like a good idea! And that's what our ancestors thought too when they fashioned copper wrist bands. They believed that the copper in the wrist band was absorbed into the blood stream in miniscule amounts, as needed.
We see, every day, that the traditional cures for many diseases work better than lethal drugs. Copper is just one of those traditional cures. It worked in 2400BC and it works today. It's a gentle, non-invasive, non-chemical way of giving the body an adequate amount of an absolutely essential trace element. And the most efficient way of absorbing the copper you need could very well be in a copper bracelet!