Man oh man. All this talk about is he or isn't he an ecto is just mind boggling. Is everyone here suffering from a mild case of amnesia? I thought we covered all this years ago.
First off, Meso, Endo, and Ecto are somatotype designations used to describe physical proportionality (and for a while -though erroneously- personality traits),
not the relative ease or difficulty one has with gaining lean mass. They are terms used to describe body shape, not metabolism.
Second, there are a sh1tload of people tossing the word "Ectomorph" around these days as an excuse for why they don't make progress in the gym. Horseradish! Unless the width of your shoulders (measured at the top of the acromion processes) is the same as your pelvic width (measured at the top of the illiac crests), you have no business calling yourself an ectomorph. You'd be surprised how many guys disqualify for the label right out the gate, simply because they
have the framework upon which to build an appreciable V-Taper. All you guys with chests measuring 12 inches or more greater than your waist can just cut the crap right now. You are not an ectomorph. I'm not even a true ectomorph. I used to think I was, but the truth is, since I started doing pull-ups and discovered that I do indeed have lats, I had to surrender the title. I'm actually more like 50/50 Ecto/Meso.
Third, regardless of your somatotype (and this goes to the OP's main point),
anyone can gain muscle with the right combination of diet, training, patience, and persistence. The ease or difficulty with which you do so is controlled by your metabolism -specifically, your
hormonal balance. How rapidly you gain muscle (if at all), and how much you are capable of gaining has nothing to do with your skeletal proportions. Whether or not Lesnar was large before the GH and other gear he obviously used is a bit of a moot point by now: better than 75% of his overall (start-to-present) gains were "assisted", if you catch my drift. Let's not compare natural gains to pharmaceutically-enhanced ones, mmkay?
And finally, yes, Brock Lesnar is a little b1tch.
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