It was only then I started making some real gains and I’ve never looked back. Being an ectomorph I need to focus on calorie intake, long rest periods, and minimum cardio. This resulted in gains of about 1.7kg in 6 months.Īfter reading the body type article in that magazine I started to understand more about how my body type worked, my metabolism, and gaining weight. Thinking that “more was better” I started following a program designed for an elite bodybuilder. I assumed (like most beginners do) that the more I worked out the bigger I would get. I had no idea about body types back then. I am a true ectomorph (classic hardgainer) and my bodyweight was 60.2kg (132.5lbs) when I first walked into a gym. So I did and it opened my eyes up to the reason why I wasn’t making any gains in the gym. Then a guy in the gym gave me a magazine and told me to read the article in there about body types. I was at a complete loss and about to throw in the towel and give up. The result of this was about 6 months in the gym with little gains and almost no motivation to workout anymore. There were so many conflicting diets and training programs available and I had no idea what I “should” be doing. Your cycles of renewal seem infinite.When I first got into the muscle building scene I was overwhelmed by the amount of different training programs, bodybuilding supplements, diets, articles and information there was out there. You have a phoenix like ability to return over and over again from defeat. Your life pattern is a long, slow early development, then adult achievement and then retreat. "Despite your headlong impatience, you age slowly and stay young until late in life. You experience many situations as being a prison, feeling trapped in a job, at a party, in a marriage, in a check out line - wherever you freedom of movement is blocked. Your theme song might well be 'On the road again'. 'Am I writing myself out?' 'Am I over-extended?' 'In ten years will my looks be gone?' You are sensitive to betrayal and see it on all sides which justifies the quick and cool way you move in and out of the lives of others. "You are always staring beneath the surface. Is the life game worth playing or is it all fake and delusion? What have you been working for? Is the American Dream all a delusion? You can act very quickly but it is never impulsive. "You tend to be secretive, especially about your motives and you meditate deeply before every major move. Once you are seized by an idea you can be relentless in pursuing it. "You are stirred to action by the torce of an idea or principle rather than some sort of emotion. At times others accuse you of being tactless because you have little respect for social convention. You have a psychic efficiency and when you are through with a lover there is no lingering tenderness or regret - it is just a quick clean cut. "When you feel betrayed you respond with icy withdrawal. You tend to be a loner and you resist the accumulation of possessions or of people. You are an excellent listener if someone interests you ( but that is a big if). Social gestures do not come easily to you but you have great charm when you want to use it. "You are a complex person - often difficult - never dull. They are uncomfortable about 2/3 of the time ( too hot - too cold - too sweet - too sour etc). Ecto-meso women want to be pampered and protected. They absolutely will not take situations at face value and always try to figure out "What's in it for me?" They will keep salesmen tied up for hours and still not buy anything. They are skeptical in disposition and want to know all of the facts read the fine print and insist on guarantees. Their favorite defense mechanism is intellectualism.Įcto-Mesos are picky, picky, picky. They lean toward academics, finance, engineering, dentistry, and research.Įcto-mesos like to think of themselves as well informed and scholarly. Men frequently are wiry and well built with a mustache. Females are preferred as high fashion models. They are more angular, leaner and lighter than other mesomorph bodies. Some information on the Ecto-Meso body type: They are of slimmed and lengthened muscularity, narrower chest than the mesomorph, less sharply tapered waist, hips are more slender, arms and legs longer relative to torso. The Ecto-Meso combines characteristics of the Endomorph and the Mesomorph.
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