Not Sure If You’re An Ectomorph? Are you small framed with longer arms and legs? Are you prone to accumulating fat in your mid section before your arms and legs when you gain weight? Can you wrap your thumb and middle finger around your opposite wrist and easily touch your fingertips together, even overlap? If so, you’re probably an ectomorph. You may be lower in body fat but struggle to gain muscle. Most ectomorphs will need more calories to make substantial muscle gains.
Not Sure If You’re A Mesomorph? Did you have an athletic build in high school? Not too skinny or stocky, you know the Goldilocks zone, just right? Maybe you set some athletic records in high school and still think of yourself as an athlete but you’ve noticed it’s a bit easier to “fill out” these days. Mesomorphs tend to have naturally muscular physiques but can gain body fat with age. If this describes you --you might be a mesomorph.
Not Sure If You’re An Endomorph? Were you bigger and stronger than most of the kids in grade school? Do you have a more developed lower body musculature? Have you’ve always been stocky or curvy? Does weight tend to creep on if you’re not paying attention? You might be an endomorph.
Note: Not everyone fits neatly into one of these three categories. It’s possible to have genetic traits from more than one body type. Pick the one you most closely identify with while recognizing that most people have a mixture of genetic traits.
