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No Need to be a Freak to get a Superhero Physique—Just Eat like Clark Kent
I had coffee a few weeks back with a good friend of mine from Montreal. I had just finished a couple months of the Bony to Beastly program, and I’d put on 20ish pounds of muscle since she last saw me....
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Ectomorph Aesthetics (Full Article)
Every straight guy knows how a girl’s femininity can tug on our heart strings. And our lust strings. Sometimes a woman’s shape, personality, face, voice—it all just adds up to make her absolutely...
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Ectomorph Muscle-Building Supplements (Updated September 2014)
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about supplements for ectomorphs—which supplements are best for us, what brands we recommend, whether they’re healthy, and whether we need them at all. The answer to...
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17 Ways to Save Money on Groceries and Supplements while Building Muscle
(Updated September 2014) It’s May 1st, 2010 and Shane and I just graduated from university a few days earlier. We’re living in a high-rise apartment with our good friend Payam in a less than ideal...
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Ectomorph Weightlifting – Why Skinny Guys Need to Lift a Little Differently
(Updated September 2014.) There are two things we ectomorphs often forget when getting into weightlifting. The first is that when we first start taking it seriously, well, we’re still novices. We can’t...
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Milk, Muscle and Marcel
(Updated July 2014.) One summer I decided I was going to bulk up. This was back when I was 130 pounds and sick and tired of being 130 pounds. I was working at an ad agency as a junior designer on the...
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How to Build a Badass Home Gym
I gained my first 20 pounds using a rusty old barbell and bench that my dad and I found on the side of the road. It wasn’t expensive, it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t safe and it worked pretty damn well. It...
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The Skinny on “Just Eat More”
(Updated April 11, 2014) As a skinny guy, each and every time I tried to build muscle people would tell me two things: “just eat more” and “just lift heavy.” Then they’d look at me like they’d just...
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The Skinny on “Just Lift Heavy”
(Updated September 2014) I wasn’t like some guys. Puberty didn’t automatically plumpen my pecs, and my weight never accidentally inched upwards on the scale. When I exercised, even when trying to build...
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All Your Skinny-Guy Muscle-building Questions Answered
Back in the day my girlfriends would treat me like a rickety old ladder that might, at any moment, collapse under her weight. Now, against all odds, I get skinny guys asking me for muscle-building...
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Should Ectomorphs do Cardio?
Weightlifting, training for a triathlon and chugging along on your mum’s treadmill will all result in your body adapting to the given training stimulus. You’ll create more blood vessels, develop more...
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Why Skinny Guys Fail To Build Muscle
Maybe you’ve seen the skinny guy who gets totally amped up to gain weight. They’ve tried and given up in the past, but blame their failure on not trying hard enough—on not having enough motivation....
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What to do When You’re Tired of Being Skinny-Fat
Skinny-fat is when you’ve got over 20% bodyfat but look skinny in a t-shirt. When instead of your shirt hanging off your pecs, it’s puffed out by your gut. This is is a frustrating situation to be in...
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The Best Lifts for Building Muscle
One of the most common questions we get asked is, “What exercise is best to grow my small chest (or arms, shoulders, abs, etc)?” It’s a surprisingly large question, since there are so many things to...
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Ectomorph Travel: Maintain or Even Gain Muscle on Vacation
You’re eager to build up a more muscular physique, and things are going super well. But lo and behold, disaster strikes—and not just a run of the mill muscle disaster, like running out of milk, but...
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The Skinny Struggle is Real
This article is for the skinny guys who haven’t been able to gain weight yet. For the the skinny guys who are still worried that it’s impossible for them. This one’s for you. I wouldn’t blame you for...
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Ectomorph Aesthetics #2: How to Become More Attractive
Four years ago we published an article called Ectomorph Aesthetics that covered everything you could possibly want to know about the most attractive male physique. Fortunately, it’s fairly easy for us...
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The Skinny on Abs
Having abs shows that you’re even leaner than you need to be, that your posture is confident and athletic, that your muscles are strong, and even that your hormones are very masculine (study). Abs look...
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Are You Really a Hardgainer? Find Out With These 3 Tests
Have you ever wondered whether you’re a “hardgainer” or not? What your muscle-building potential might be? How much of an ectomorph you are? How your physique might look after gaining 10, 20 or even...
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The Social Workout: A Skinny Guy’s Guide to Confidence
A few weeks ago we got an email from a Beastly member, Nick, saying that he had referenced our Ectomorph Aesthetics article on his site. He thought that it perfectly described the physique that women...
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