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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by scarface74 on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:59PM (#20965231)
It’s not about aesthetic judgement. If you won the genetics lottery and have a high metabolism, you will have more calories out. If you won the genetic lottery and grow to be 7 feet as oppose to be 5 foot 5, you will burn more calories and find it easier to be slim.

I didn’t win the height genetic lottery or the higher than average metabolism genetic lottery, but I did win the mesomorph one. I naturally look muscular whether I lift or not and I pack on muscle quickly. That isn’t due to any moral strength.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by bena on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:12PM (#20966629)
Somatotypes are pseudoscience.
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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by scarface74 on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:01PM (#20967077)
Are you really saying that different people don’t naturally have different body types? I’m 5 foot 5 and 175 pounds. Based on BMI, I am “morbidly obese”. But I have a 32 inch waist, muscular looking legs and an objectively toned upper body with little body fat measured with calipers - 6 points. It’s not because I am a body builder. I’ve had this same basic shape whether or not I was lifting and I only occasionally been to the point where I lifted heavy.

I’ve seen other people my same height and weight with large stomachs and no tone and with a completely different waist to hip ratio.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by AstralStorm on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:01AM (#20969176)
Again somatotypes are pseudoscience, but belt size, waist-hip ratio and abdominal fat or muscle percentage are actual science.

You can look whatever and still be fat inside where it matters...

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by scarface74 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:04AM (#20970050)
That’s exactly what a somatype is. Some people also naturally gain muscle easier. Do you think that if your average person and a top tier athlete train the same amount of time they will have similarly outcomes?
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