| Are you a skinny guy that is blessed with low | | | | how many calories you are eating because it is |
| body fat but cursed with extreme difficulty in | | | | probably not enough. You need to make sure you |
| building muscle? If so you need to know how to | | | | are eating enough to give your body energy for |
| put on muscle mass for ectomorphs because that | | | | all the day to day tasks plus your general 'resting' |
| is what you are! | | | | metabolism rate and then add a heap mroe on |
| Ectomorphs are the extreme end of the | | | | top of that. The thought of so much food might |
| spectrum with an insanely high metabolism that | | | | make you feel sick but it can be done and is good |
| runs like a furnace burning through calories from | | | | practice to divide this into 4-6 meals a day rather |
| food so fast that you have no excess energy | | | | than 3 meals which we are usually used to. |
| that if you are lazy becomes fat or if you are | | | | As mentioned though if you want to put on |
| working out builds muscle. The other end of the | | | | muscle mass for ectomorph body types you will |
| spectrum are the Endomorphs who have a very | | | | need to make sure you are working our correctly |
| slow metabolism and make great power lifters | | | | too as if you are not hitting that gym with a |
| and in the middle are the mesomorphs who have | | | | certain amount of intensity that excess energy in |
| a more balanced metabolism and are usually very | | | | your body will be converted into fat cells. To |
| good general athletes. | | | | counter this make sure you are lifting heavy |
| As you can see the main difference is metabolism | | | | enough weights that you can only manage about |
| and the reason your muscles may not be growing | | | | 8-10 reps per set before failure. At this weight |
| (as long as you are working out right) is that they | | | | you will cause the muscles to be damaged slightly |
| are starved of energy and never get a chance to | | | | which is a natural process in bodybuilding. Small |
| really repair, regenerate and grow in response to | | | | tears appear in the muscle fiber which is where |
| the stimulus from your workouts. | | | | that excess energy goes; to mend and to |
| So the first thing you need to look at when | | | | increase the muscle mass around these injuries. |
| putting on muscle mass for ectomorphs is just | | | | |