Tip-Getting Your diet in check.

A good thing to remember when trying to improve your health and level of fitness is your diet. REMEMBER 80% of your fitness, looks, health, and even your emotional state of happiness/sadness is determined by your diet. Thats right your diet.

Your diet not only encompasses what type of foods you eat but also when you eat them.

So when you determine your EXACT fitness goals whether they are to build muscle and or burn fat and lose weight you should base your food intake on your metabolism and genetic body type.

REMEMBER a person who is active with a lot of lean muscle mass will burn more calories than a person without lean muscle mass. This means a body builder will burn more calories just by watching tv than a regular average Joe.

Another big factor in learning the speed of your metabolism is your genetic body type. There are 3 basic body types:
1.)Ectomorph
2.) Mesomorph
3.) Endomorph

Rather than explain the differences I will let this figure do it for me.




As you can see each body type is different. Ectomorphs have fast metabolisms and it is hard for them to build muscle, while at the same time it is easy for the mesomorph to build muscle. The endomorph will find it extremely hard to lose weight.

Determining your body type will help you get your own personal diet and exercise plan that is ideal for reaching your fitness goals. EXAMPLE if you are an ectomorph and you want to build muscle it is not crazy to aim to consume 5,000-6,000 calories a day. If you are an endomorph and you want to lose fat, you should aim to consume LESS THAN 2,000 calories a day. Remember this can't happen over night so I would suggest cutting small unhealthy foods out of your diet until you are able to comfortably do this every day.

Enjoy