Jun 11, 2011 9:14 PM GMT
So in the past month I've discovered that I have an ectomorphic body type (aka hardgainer)... lame. This nicely explains how I've managed to follow a pretty intensive gym schedule for 6 months and made zero progress.
I've been researching what this means for my training programme and I think I've found something that looks good. It's a low intensity routine of 4 days lifting per week, split into pull and push days. There's only 5 exercises per day and the focus is on lifting the heaviest weight possible with low reps. Every 4 weeks there's a 'deload' week where you lift lighter weights for more reps.
This routine seems to be all over the web so some of you other ectomorphs must have come across it. If so have you tried it? What were your results?
For reference this is the routine: http://ectomorphworkout.org/ectomorph-workout-for-mass/
If you've found something else that works for you then I'd be interested to hear about that too!
Thanks.
I've been researching what this means for my training programme and I think I've found something that looks good. It's a low intensity routine of 4 days lifting per week, split into pull and push days. There's only 5 exercises per day and the focus is on lifting the heaviest weight possible with low reps. Every 4 weeks there's a 'deload' week where you lift lighter weights for more reps.
This routine seems to be all over the web so some of you other ectomorphs must have come across it. If so have you tried it? What were your results?
For reference this is the routine: http://ectomorphworkout.org/ectomorph-workout-for-mass/
If you've found something else that works for you then I'd be interested to hear about that too!
Thanks.
