Meet my man Jim.

Jim is a 17 year-old tennis player who wanted to add some muscular strength and size.

Tennis players are almost always ectomorphs.  Ectomorphs are those real skinny people that anybody on a diet would like to kill, because they can eat whatever they want and not gain weight.

Also, tennis players run around a lot, in case you never noticed.

These factors make it extremely difficult for this type of person to gain muscular bodyweight.  It’s like they’re starting out with 2 strikes against them already.

We know from experience that ectomorphs are dead in the water if they try a multi-set, 6-days-a-week type program expecting to gain weight.

We also know their tolerance to very high intensity activity is limited.  It’s easy to make an ectomorph throw up or pass out while training.

A fine line indeed.

So here’s what we did with Jim:

From October 3rd, 2009 to November 9th, 2009, Jim performed 7 High Intensity Muscle Building workouts.  That’s 7 workouts in 37 days.

Here’s a peek at one of Jim’s workouts:

Here is a glimpse at his body composition measurements:

So if you are a “Jim”–an ectomorph, a.k.a. “hardgainer”, who has had a tough time adding some extra muscle, but someone who is highly motivated, coachable, and willing to work hard-maybe it’s time to give High Intensity Muscle Building a try.

To new muscle,

Dave Durell, MS, CCS, PTA
Author, High Intensity Muscle Building