Have you marveled at other people's ability to just look at a barbell, eat a diet of junk and add inches to their arms while you struggle through hours upon hours of gym sessions mixed with weight gain supplements an get precisely nowhere ending up with the same skinny frame as before? Do you wonder in frustration, can the skinny guy build muscle? Well if you do not understand what it means to be a skinny guy then you may never realize the answer can be yes, the skinny guy can build muscle!

The basic problem a lot of skinny guys have is that they train themselves in ways that imitate what successful body builders do. This sounds logical but there is a flaw in the thinking because many successful bodybuilders and the entire bodybuilding industry are more geared towards people with a vastly different body type.

People with a skinny body type are called Ectomorphs, they have a very high metabolism which allows them to stay skinny which can be a cause of jealousy for many non-ectomorphs who find it hard to lose fat but find it easier to build muscle. Endomorphs or Skinny guys build muscles in a very different way because their metabolism hinders muscle growth as their genetics come into play. Taking weight gain supplements are useless because the body metabolizes it too quickly for it to have any real effect and even the way that you lift weights and do exercise must be different to how other body types train.

Along with trying to train like a Mesomorph or Endomorph (the other body types), ectomorphs who follow what the bodybuilding industry usually say also subject themselves to diets that are not designs for their fast metabolism leading to health issues and injury from incorrect body type training. So if you are a skinny guy, build muscle the right way and you can put on weight just like anyone else.