Ectomorphisms

Hopefully my pun^ was enjoy by someone.

I am an ectomorph. For those of you who aren't engrossed in the world of body language or athletics, ectomorphs have lean body mass and have trouble storing fat and gaining bulk muscle.

Many moons ago when I was a wee high schooler, I clocked in my weight at around 148lbs in grade 12. At 5'9" I was pretty solid muscle as I barely spent any time not playing sports. When I arrived at University (now a few years ago), as a little physeddie there were new sports and activities they made you do like dance and gymnastics. Now I'm not slamming those sports or anything and saying that they don't require vast quantities of strength and endurance because they do. Just at the level we were doing them at, they didn't.

So, over the course of the year, while I still worked out on top of dance and gymnastics I was not training the same ways that I used to, and I lost an amount of my dense muscle mass I had worked so long and hard for. Then in 2nd year I had to cook for myself. At that time I was a very basic kitchener when it came to food prep. So by the middle of that year I had dropped below 130lbs. I came home to a worried mother and was force fed over the course of my 3 week vacation.

3 years later I was able to gain most of that back. At the end of May I clocked in just over 140lbs. I was pretty solid muscle again, but not in the same ways because I was now training for different things. I have always had small boobs. Even in high school at my greatest weight I was only an A-cup. Since my muscle comp is now really diff, I have been unable to re-grow my boobs and they remain non-existent.

While my body weight has gone up I feel like the muscle density in places is still lacking and now that I'm getting older its much harder to gain it back in certain places, like my arms. My arms used to be rocks. I had the sickest delts known to mankind. They were beautiful. I say were, because I know longer possess such beautiful delts. I think I need to revamp my training a little so I can become the dense muscle tree that I once was and break out of my ectomorph shell in which I have been living for so long.