Why hardgainers MUST cycle intensity?
Hardgainers don’t have the genetic gifts that easy gainers do. Even if they did they should include cycling for spurring extra gains when plateaus/stagnation set in. Remember, once you have overtrained, you can’t bully your way out of it. The only solution is to drop your intensity temporarily. Cycling is a planned and organized effort to arrange irregular progress into a regular progression of ‘ups’ and ‘downs’, with each new ‘up’ or ‘down’ being a little higher than the previous one. After a cycle (of 12-20 weeks) one should look at having gained 15-20 pounds on the bench press, 20-30 pounds on the squat and Deadlift. Maintaining this progress for 12-18 months will give you tremendous gains.
