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Inspiration

It Gets Easier

May 12, 2010

The first time you attempt to lift weights or eat more food than you’re used to it can feel like hell. I remember struggling to do 3 pull ups and feeling absolutely pathetic.
Granted, doing 3 on your first try is actually pretty good (so don’t feel too bad if you’re like most people who can’t [...]

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Insane Feats of Strength

April 30, 2010

Mostly I like to keep this blog ectomorph-centric, in that I don’t bring in content that would be an unfair representation of what the majority of hardgainers could realistically achieve or experience. But this is different.
The dude in the video below is surely not an ectomorph, but shows off some insane feats of strength using [...]

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Never Give In

April 7, 2010

The practicalities of training and eating as an ectomorph are fairly uncomplicated (most of the time), it’s the persistence that I feel to be the major factor in why so many skinny guys remain skinny. But if you’re lacking motivation I feel this quote from Winston Churchill summarizes the best path to take:
Never give in–never, [...]

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