Genetics/Body Type

[PreMier]

the general population falls into more than one category.

Yea, like you fall into the "fucking hot/oh my god" categories.

 

[BritChick]

meso-endo

 

[The Monkey Man]

Ok, no more talk of hot chix...

(My head is going to explode)

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

Yea, like you fall into the "fucking hot/oh my god" categories.

cute jake ...

 

[thajeepster]

i dont know what the hell i am... can you be ecto endo??? It takes a hell of a lot for me to gain anything and when i do, it seems to be more fat than muscle. My genetics blow

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

My genetics blow

this made me laugh.

that is all.

 

[Mista]

meso-endomorph

 

[the_general64]

ectomorph here................very frustrating. one of the best advantages though is the fact that people underestimate how much weight you can push. to see them watch you as you bench more weight than they were benching is amusing to say the least..........




???Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.???
Josephus Daniels

 

[Flakko]

ectomorph here................very frustrating. one of the best advantages though is the fact that people underestimate how much weight you can push. to see them watch you as you bench more weight than they were benching is amusing to say the least..........

Ectophorm here, yeah it makes you feel kinda bad, but what the heck! That's the reason why I work out!
And yeah, it feels good when you see some big guys and you can lift a similar weight and some guys are bigger than you and you can lift a few pounds more than they can
It's a good feeling

 

[mPK]

ecto-meso

 

[TrojanMan60563]

I wouldn't care if I could only bench 100lbs if my chest was thick and developed. I see a lot of small ecto type people pressing big weights....I'd rather have the look then all the strength.

 

[mPK]

^ i agree!

 

[michael74737]

i guess messo-endo

 

[duece]

disagree i have the look and get complements all the time. people always ask what i can bench and i feel to much like a bitch to say. i keep gaining mass and still look pretty cut. but cant increase my strength numbers. don't know if its bad genetics or what. i would rather be able to kick everyones ass then look like i can

 

[TrojanMan60563]

I'd rather be impressed when I look in the mirror and confident when I stroll down the beach than know I can kick everyones ass...I could careless about beating up people so as long as I am strong enough to move myself around and do what I want that is cool. I only need to be strong enough to take off a lid to a jar of pickles.

 

[duece]

but why is it that i get bigger without getting fatter but just not adding on the strength. i know lift heavier weight to get stronger but i have already cut my numbers of workouts down and number of reps

 

[TrojanMan60563]

Duece if you are looking to get strong you need to keep the reps low...eat enough to allow your body to grow and get stronger....and If I were you I would focus on squats, flat barbell bench, and dealifting.

 

[BayBeeBoiz]

i would have to go with ecto but if i change anything in what i eat i lose really fast or gain really fast. i can workout 2 days and see changes.but when i stop its like i never even exercised.

 

[MAC33]

woo! memsomorph! I had no clue what the hell any of them were until I read this thread (thanks to those nifty diagrams). It seems you'd be able to change that body type though pretty easily with bodybuilding..too bad people don't take BBing so seriously... like the football players in my school who are the kind of ego-driven pricks who only do bench like every day with out any knowledge of diet, nutrition, biochemistry/biomechanics...and say they're stronger then everyone.. even though the only thing they really know how to do is bench... but make them do a pullup and they make excuses to hide the fact that they can't do them...or curls... Its a shame none of them ever did any research cause after 2 years they might have gotten bigger... heh oh well. But still not really sure about this whole body type thing... if you're ecto or mesmo or endo... is that what you would naturally be if you had never exersized/bodybuilded before? And with what I sayd previously.. I have to give this forumn a huge thanks... cause the "athletes" in my school have been lifting for atleast 2 years... most more... and haven't gotten any bigger...like at all... and I love that cause I've only been lifting for like 1 year and with the help of this forum i put on several inches to my arms and my chest and legs... but being a mesmo kind of helped with the chest look

 

[rgrmike74]

if going b4 weight training i was a true ecto.

BTW i thought the average american male was 6' 180lbs

 

[Tha Don]

100% ectomorph here, about 130lbs and 6"2 when i first started lifting

 

[Seanp156]

I'm going to have to say primarily ectomorph... Maybe some slight hint of mesomorph tendencies, but not as much as I'd like.