1. Muscle building and bodybuilding magazines are really "drug programs." They tell you to "train hard" but make "hard training" impossible by prescribing 12-24 sets per body part. A person can build muscle with this kind of volume if you're using drugs to accelerate your recovery.

2.Muscle building supplements are only necessary when you have hit a 90% threshold in your training, nutrition and lifestyle. Still if you do introduce supplements at that point, don't expect any miracles - they will only make a 1-2% difference in gaining lean muscle mass and getting stronger.

3. Your body can only manufacture 1-2 pounds of "dry muscle" each month which results in extra storage space for glycogen and water. Hence you may only gain 3-4 pounds of "lean muscle mass" on a monthly basis. It's physiologically impossible (without drugs) to develop in excess of 12-24 pounds of rock solid muscle over the course of the year. A little different then what the magazines let you know eh?

4. Most skinny guys are taking advice from bodybuilders, magazines and websites that are promoted by guys with amazing genetics. You should not be taking advice from a guy who can not relate to your "muscle unfriendly genes," or from a guy who does not have the same body structure or your same metabolism. Would you take money advice from a guy who inherited a fortune? Would you take money advice from a guy who won the lottery? No! So why are you taking advice about muscle building from bodybuilding from guys with great genetics and that are using steroids?

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