What Can Your Body Do For You?
A good looking body is something that everyone wants, is working for, or trying to maintain. There are many people out in the world who claim that obtaining those six pack abs, great chest, arms, legs, butt are just a few simple steps and dollars away. All you have have to do is eat this, do this work out, buy this substance, or this piece of equipment. The problem is no ever talks about the something that very important and that is the genes you are given, cause not all workouts work the same for everyone.
(Arnold got great genes and is a mesomorph)
When we are born we get specific genes that unfortunately have a lot to do with what we are able to look like, and how the exercise we do and the nutrition we implement will effect our bodies. Some people can eat what they want whatever they want and never gain weight, others put on muscle with very little trying, some can’t seem to loose weight by doing tons of exercise. It may be that what plays a major role as to what you look like is your body type.
The three body types are ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph. Learning and understanding the type you are can help you plan the type of nutrition and exercise will help you most over time. This is the idiots guide, their is a lot of information out their how to tailor your workout routine and nutrition guidelines to your specific body type on the Internet to help you.
The Ectomorph:
This type is the tall and thin body style, the person who has trouble putting on muscle no matter how working out they do. This body type also seems to have a fast metabolism and can eat pretty much anything they want without gaining weight. With a lot of exercise a look a tone look can be achieved but gaining muscle is hard. From the ectomorphs I have talked too, a crazy amount of food has to be eaten to gain the smallest amount of weight. A easy way to identify is a rectangular shape where if you fallow your chest to hips is fairly the same width.
The Endomorph:
The endomorph has the slowest metabolism of the three different body types and can therefore gain weight the quickest and easiest. This is great for gaining muscle and strength, but terrible for losing and keeping off fat. It’s basically the complete opposite of the ectomorph.It is the natural fat body type. It tends to be a wider at the stomach then the chest. So a triangle with the tip at the chest.
The Mesomprh:
The hybrid, the best of both. They gain muscle almost as well as an endomorph, yet can lose fat almost as well as an ectomorph. The chest is wider the the hips, a triangle with the tip at the stomach. All of the models that sell the magazines or workout equipment, tapes, drugs are mainly this type of body style.
First of all while the genes you get can play an important role in your life, I refuse to believe that you don’t have the power to control it and even change it. A good example would be if you are an endomorph you can reduce the calories and increase cardio and weight training to get a low body fat muscular look, and the exact opposite for ectomorph. But also with a bad diet and no physical activity anyone can get fat, and flabby. This is just more of a way to figure out what you need to do to customize your routine to get the most out of it. But I stress this the most with good habit such as diet, perseverance, dedication, patience and knowledge (which I think is probably the most underrated yet most important aspects of a healthy life style.) you can do anything, and that goes for any part of life.
I want to share a site: http://fitnessblackbook.com/. Fitnessblackbook.com is a website which has taught me so much and like I said knowledge is power, Rusty Moore runs the site and he gives great advice on every aspect of living a healthy lifestyle, I really recommend you check it out.
Last Note: Classifying people is impossible and this is just a model that over time seems to hold true but their is also evidence out their that their are overlaps and mixes people are unique and don’t fit into molds.
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