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Originally Posted by Arch0wl

You've made this clear, but the significance of what you're saying is wholly dependent on the degree to which myostatin varies in most people. If people with excess or deficient myostatin are extreme abnormalities, it makes little practical purpose to say that Reach's advice isn't applicable to them, since advice like this tends to be made with most or possibly even the vast majority of cases in mind.

They don't really need to be extreme abnormalities, given the wording. All that was said was that it was "harder" and not necessarily impossible. Everyone has varying levels, and the levels don't actually have to be extreme to have noticeable effects on your muscle growth.

Also, I was not discrediting Reach's "advice" (if you could really call it that?). I was calling it an oversimplification of muscle growth.

'hard gainers' are just people that don't eat enough food to bulk. They usually overestimate how much they eat because they often have small appetites.

While it may be true in some cases, it's not always going to be the case. You don't need an extreme example of excess myostatin levels for a person to find themselves having a harder time building muscles than others. The "effort" being mentioned here is not measured by anything concrete but by a relative measure.

Even all things considered on the variance levels of myostatin levels, it doesn't matter the number of people. Simply put, the quote doesn't cover it all.