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Hardgainer? Need Muscle?

Over at the Hardgainer Manifesto (full disclosure: I own, run, and manage the site), I’m selling a special report I wrote specifically to give the hardgainer all he or she needs to know to finally start putting on weight and building muscle. The report is brief, only costs $20, but most importantly, it gives you specific exercise routines, meal plans, supplements that work, and some other stuff that’s important to hardgainer training.

I’ve written a lot about hardgainers. It’s kind of natural — I spent 20 years trying to crack the code for muscle development for the most difficult trainee I know — ME!

Yep, I spent my entire teens and twenties figuring it all out. The muscle mags did me no good, the guys at the gym didn’t help (they tried, but they were using all the same techniques the mags prescribed), and working out really hard didn’t do any good at all. Eating like an elephant didn’t work for me, either.

In fact, you might say all of that did more harm than good!

When I finally “got it,” I put on weight like a newborn bear. I gained over 60 pounds my first year on the program. Once it clicked, I was able to put on weight almost at will.

And it’s not hard, once you see how it works.

That’s it for my “sales pitch.” Head over to the Hardgainer Manifesto where you can read all about it.

Hi everybody, I have started the Hardgainer’s Blog Carnival because I couldn’t find one on the ‘net and I think it’s extemely important that we share our successes and failures, what works and what doesn’t, and motivations and fear. It’s a tough battle blasting past a genetic makeup that isn’t ideal, but as you know, it’s certainly possible.

Let’s leverage each other’s knowledge and insights and build a community around and for the hardgainer. Submit your post about bulking up, gaining weight, and building muscle for the hardgainer below:

By the way, I have several blogs that will host the carnival. If you, too, would like to host a Hardgainer’s Blog Carnival, leave me a comment to this post and I’ll arrange it. Hosting a carnival can bring you a serious amount of traffic that could put your site on the map, or take it over the top!

3 quick questions:

1. Are you a guy or do you know one close to you over the age of 35?

2. Have you or he looked at your/his bare chest lately?

3. If so… did you see them?…The dreaded….

“Manboobs?”

Manboobs are NOT cool

Obviously if you are female this is not an issue. But for us men, “gynecomastia”, often jokingly referred to as manboobs (we can thank “Seinfeld” for that), is anything but funny.

From this point on, I’ll refer to it as “MB” if that’s okay by you.

MB is not an age thing. It can occur at almost any time in life. However, for those of us over 35, it is more common.

This is just one of the many symptoms of “andropause,” or “male menopause.”

When you age, your testosterone levels decline…and more than that the testosterone gets “weaker” due to an imbalance between it and estrogen.

When you combine that with our modernized “estrogen-rich” environment that Dr. Holly Lucille frequently lectures on, you have a problem.

A big MB problem.

MB is associated with lack of drive (you know what I’m talking about guys) and excess bellyfat due to the estrogen.

Even more serious: Excess estrogen has been positively linked to prostate cancer.

Yep. MBs are not so funny after all.

Check out Dr. Lucille’s NaturaPause Audios. There is an entire audio dedicated to male menopause and natural solutions that really work.

Most do not work worth a darn.

Hers goes.

http://www.naturapause.com/aff/billspaced <— no more MBs!

Tainted peanut bar

As an avid weight trainer, I’ve had my fair share of peanut butter over the years. It’s a super food, in my humble opinion, and I eat LOTS of it when I’m bulking up. Of course, I eat the organic kind, but for energy and protein bars, as well as peanut-butter flavored supplements, who knows?

The FDA has released an announcement (Recall of Products Containing Peanut Butter: Salmonella Typhimurium) about a peanut butter recall. Here’s the link to the full list of affected products.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm

Here’s a PDF, if that’s more convenient. There are a bunch of “bar-related” products impacted, like those from Clif, Luna, NutriSystem, and ZonePerfect.

I love the Clif Builder bars in the recall (I have some). There are instructions that show you how to determine if you have an affected product and what to do with it if you do.