Lol, is that so? I had to eat like 4000 kcals when I was younger to gain weight because my metabolism was so fast, which was "hard".
"People that call themselves hardgainers are the guys that don't eat enough" That statement you made proves the point of someone referring to themselves as hardgainers because it is HARD for them to gain weight. It is "hard" to eat enough to "gain", get it? I graduated high school at 117. I had to drink homemade weight gain shakes to gain weight because it was "hard" for me to "gain" weight. Trying to accommodate for energy output and still eat at a surplus is sometimes hard work, thus hard gainer. Why don't you drop your ****ing attitude towards people that are merely asking for help.
Do you think people will be more or less inclined to ask for help when someone ridicules them? If you're just going to laugh at someone and discredit their work ethic when they ask for help for something that was probably read in a magazine or found online trying to better himself maybe you should just move along
It seems like you don't understand that gaining muscle IS HARD.
Everyone's bodies are different, yes. Your metabolism may be fast. That doesn't make your battle any harder than mine, make sense?
People say that as an excuse for why they haven't reached their goals. And I actually was in no way flaming OP. I was flaming the term "hard gainer".
And guess what, we all have to eat a lot to gain muscle, that's basic stuff. I also weighed 120 at 6 foot with a crazy fast metabolism and you never heard me make excuses for why I wasn't where I wanted to be. I worked my ****ing ass off, ate the amount needed, and did what needed to be done.
Besides the genetic exceptions, we are all hard gainers.