Just Your Type
The Ultimate Guide to Eating and Training Right for Your Body Type
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A comprehensive plan for matching diet and fitness regimens to body types, based on the proven system of somatotypes
According to fitness guru Phil Catudal, 70 percent of people exercise the wrong way. To achieve lasting fitness and health, Catudal explains, you should work with your natural-born body type and do the optimal combination of cardio, strength training, and flexibility exercises and consume the right proportion of macronutrients for your physique. While fitness trends and fad diets will come and go, your body type (somatotype) is the one constant that's never going to change. Just Your Type helps anyone create an individualized workout that's tailored to their body shape and composition. Working harder isn't always the answer, but working smarter is.
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Fitness trainer Catudal introduces a diet and fitness program based around one's individual "genetic blueprint," which promises progress "more quickly than you ever have with other programs," but fails to entirely convince. He explains "somatotypes," or different physique types, in terms of celebrity examples: Barack Obama is a "lean and slender" ectomorph, Dwayne Johnson a "naturally muscular" mesomorph, and Jennifer Lopez belongs to the endomorph group, who have "wider hips, more narrow shoulders, and more pear-shaped bodies." After taking four body measurements around the upper arms, upper thighs, chest, and waist readers learn "metabolism math" to calculate their individual metabolic rates. Catudal's presentation is certainly detailed, with most of the book devoted to body-type-specific plans that include meal plans and "slim down, shape up workouts." The biggest question, however, is left unanswered: can readers make the demanding program work on their own, without a trainer's help? It's hard to imagine this thorough guide achieving the results it promises without a professional there to personally oversee one's progress.
