How to Maximise Your Gains, According to Your Body Type
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How Anthropometry and Your Body Type Can Affect Your Workouts
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Avoid long runs since they may wear their muscles down. Cardio sessions should be minimum.
Strength training should be a top priority for ectos since they have trouble packing up muscle. Balance exercises accompanying strength training will yield more favourable results.
Are you a mesomorph?
They look well-built without setting foot in a gym.
Building muscle too easily makes mesos worry about getting all buffed up with little exercise.
What mesos should do to stay fit:
Stretching should be an integral part of their work out routine. Stretching will help in toning muscles, lengthening them to appear less bulky.
About 20 minutes of cardio exercise per day is good enough to keep a healthy heart. It is important for mesos to do full body workouts. Overworking in one area will easily result in uneven muscle tone.
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People with mesomorph body types tend to see big gains from strength and interval-type workouts. But longer cardio training is important, too.
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How do you know if you have a mesomorphbody type? You might love Tabata and other high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, but find long bouts of cardio arduous. You may naturally enjoy the weight room because that’s where your strengths no pun intended lie.
“A mesomorph is generally defined as someone who has a body type that has a high level of muscle and strength,” says Adam Feit, the head strength and sports psychology coach for Precision Nutrition in Springfield, Massachusetts. Now, perhaps you don’t have lots of muscle at the moment because you’ve been inactive for a while. But you know if you did start working out, you would gain muscle relatively easily.