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Get active. If you must sit at school and/or work, then move your legs and body about, but not constantly like a pendulum. Get up and go to the pencil sharpener, if possible. Step outside during your lunch break or walk to get a drink of water. If you want to get in shape but you’re too busy to hit the gym, you need to at least get yourself up and active. Walk. Park on the far side of the parking area. There are lots of ways to do such things, and they don’t need to be very time consuming or costly at all.

So do ectomorphs have a unique physiology that benefits from some trendy diet? No. But if we’re trying to build muscle and being limited by our inability to eat enough calories to gain weight, then, yeah, it can help to eat a so-called “ectomorph bulking diet.” But it depends on your situation and goals, not just on your bone structure.

Okay, so here is where the terrain starts to get treacherous. As soon as we start talking about an “ectomorph diet,” people might assume that we’re saying that all naturally skinny guys benefit from eating the same foods, have the exact same goals, or have a unique physiology that requires a different approach to nutrition. That’s not true.
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With that said, though, a lot of us share the goal of wanting to build muscle, which means that we need to eat enough protein. And most of us want to gain weight, which means that we need to eat enough calories to gain weight. And most of us have a hard time eating enough calories to gain weight. So that does mean that most of us ectomorphs want to eat in a different way from the average person

Ectomorphs find it very hard to gain weight. They have a fast metabolism which burns up calories very quickly. Ecto’s need a huge amount of calories in order to gain weight. Workouts should be short and intense focusing on big muscle groups. Supplements are definitely recommended. Ectomorphs should eat before bed to prevent muscle catabolism during the night. Generally, ectomorphs can lose fat very easily which makes cutting back to lean muscle easier for them.