Bodybuilding exercises help amplify the ability of an individual to deal with pain. Whether in or out of the gym a bodybuilder has things helping to deal with intense pain. One is body strength and secondly a high level of endurance. Biologically, the ability of a bodybuilder to deal with pain can be attributed to an increased level of endorphins, natural pain killers in the body. These help alleviate and or manage pain. The most probable excuse you will hear is, "I am a hard gainer." Genetics have become the most popular scapegoat used by the lazy bones of bodybuilding.
The reason why genetics are blamed by most of them is because it's a convenient blame route which nobody can prove to the contrary. If you are one of these people, it is understandable why you feel sorry for yourself. Following out a bodybuilding program for along time and yet have nothing to show for it in way of muscles, is a dehumanizing experience. But it is now time to stop blaming your genetics for being skinny or average and start building muscles. You don't have to pump yourself with drugs and assorted steroids to achieve muscle growth. Start by stopping the blame game. Don't compare yourself with people who seem to be succeeding in muscle building and then passing them off as favored by genetics.
Save the energy and focus it on your body building program. There is nothing you can do to alter your genetics but you can alter their effects in your life. Very few body builders are genetically gifted for natural muscle accumulation. It is true that without a destination, no journey can ever be completed. Without targets, any activity is vainly done. This is especially true when it comes to bodybuilding. A bodybuilder without goals is just like a ship straddled in the very middle of an ocean without a compass and can only drift away without any sense of direction. A body builder cannot just flow with the current; rather, he or she must attach some clear objectives to the bodybuilding program. Muscles don't develop by accident but by precise and objective stimulation.
Without goals, many a bodybuilders attend gym sessions for years and yet look just the same way they did at the very start. Without a target your shot will hit nothing in the gym. Because you will just hover here and there trying out things without being consistent to one exercise long enough for it to bear yields in muscle mass. The beginning point of a bodybuilding program must be to identify both long term and short term goals that will be pursued with determined exercises.
The type of exercises chosen, the duration of each workout session and the length of a training program as well as the diet program adopted must be determined by the goals of a program. Serious beginners actually go as far as writing down the specific pounds they want to weigh, the measurements of their chest, waist, calves, forearms, thighs, etc, which he or she will achieve after a particular length in the gym. Such a beginner will therefore pursue a focused program laden with only those exercises that will help achieve those targets.