endomorphs?

_mil_k
_mil_k Posts: 3 Member
edited March 6 in Fitness and Exercise
anyone else with work out advice for endomorphs. i do 45 to 1 hour of cardio 5 days a week. 3 of those days i do HIT during my cardio, and 3 of the days i do some weight, and resistance training. i love cardio but i dont want that skinny fat look from not doing enough weight training. all advice is helpful =)

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  • _mil_k
    _mil_k Posts: 3 Member
    lol not using excuses.. by any means.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,473 Spam Moderator
    Somatotyping was developed by a psychiatrist based on the behaviors of individuals. Some of it was denoted based on their overall activity.
    As mentioned, it's not a relevant way to look at people. Someone could have started out as an "ectomorph", ate too much and is now an "endomorph", yet somehow they are the same person.
    Best bet is to keep doing what you're doing and eat a moderate deficit. Oh and lift weight resistances that are challenging for 12 reps or less.


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  • threnjen
    threnjen Posts: 687 Member
    Lift heavy, stronglifts 5x5. Forget about the endomorph stuff, is not relevant.
  • jeremywm1977
    jeremywm1977 Posts: 657 Member
    edited October 2014
    threnjen wrote: »
    Lift heavy, stronglifts 5x5. Forget about the endomorph stuff, is not relevant.
    This post = helpful


    MrM27 wrote: »
    Soma types were debunked a long time ago.
    Soma type usage is for people with excuses
    This post = not so much

  • _mil_k
    _mil_k Posts: 3 Member
    thanks u guys
  • Sam_I_Am77
    Sam_I_Am77 Posts: 2,093 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Somatotyping was developed by a psychiatrist based on the behaviors of individuals. Some of it was denoted based on their overall activity.
    As mentioned, it's not a relevant way to look at people. Someone could have started out as an "ectomorph", ate too much and is now an "endomorph", yet somehow they are the same person.
    Best bet is to keep doing what you're doing and eat a moderate deficit. Oh and lift weight resistances that are challenging for 12 reps or less.


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    Agreed, I think the only useful component of Somatotypes is to describe one's build. It's easier to describe somebody as an ectomorph than to say, the tall skinny guy with narrow shoulders and a narrow waist. Now, there were old ideas that suggested endomorphs couldn't manage carbs, mesomorphs were basically superman, etc, etc. Research has definitely disproved all of those old ideas and the only useful component of somatotypes is to describe one's build, that's about it.
  • civilizedworm
    civilizedworm Posts: 796 Member
    And besides those arbitrary designations break down when faced with a xenomorph.

    (Apologies. Had to say it.)
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