Body types

When it comes to building muscle i think its important you should know a bit about anatomy of the body instead of just going to the gym and lifting weights and thinking thats going to be enough to change it. Understanding your body and knowing how it works is crucial when it comes to any physical activity. Some of you may already know what the different body types are but for those who don’t I’m going to run through the 3 different types, You will need to decide which one most resembles you and then train and eat accordingly.

Ectomorph

• skinny and lean
• slightly muscled
• Natural low body fat
• Find it hard to gain weight
• Ruler appearance
• Fast metabolism

Mesomorph

• Muscular
• Square frame
• naturally strong
• respond well to exercise
• Efficient metabolism
• evenly distributed body fat
• big boned

Endomorph

• Muscle gain is easy but tend to bulk
• puts on weight easy
• big boned
• Slow metabolism
• Find it hard to keep fat of
• naturally have more body fat
• Fatigue faster

Now you know the 3 types you need to decide which one you are, knowing your body type is important because you need to specialise your training and diet plan depending on what one you are. For example a ectomorph will need to consume high amounts of calories/carbs/protein to put weight on and maybe have to cut down on cardio and focus on more weight lifting, and endomorph being the opposite.