 Next question is from preacher man Joe. Is there any truth regarding somatotypes? A trainer said that knowing if you're an ectomorph, mesomorph or endomorph will determine what your body needs. There's a little bit of value in this but it's so generalized that it's really for marketers. Yeah if you live and die by this you're not look most people are not a most people are not a pure ectomorph. So ectomorph is the here's what they would say right tall skinny smaller bone structure tends to be really lean hard gainer right mesomorph your athlete more muscle lean builds muscle easily athletic endomorph gains body fat easily is thicker bigger bone structure and it's harder for them to get lean very very gent this is so generalized that most people are combinations of these different like hybrids of whatever yeah so is there value in it maybe a little bit but not a ton I find I find it valuable I find it valuable and I defend it because it's been I know trashed in the last like 10 years or so because we've we've dispelled that there's these three categories or whatever but for explaining something to a client who falls in one of these categories to get them to understand their body more and how it responds to exercise and nutrition I remember you know it reminds me of 3500 calories equals a pound of fat okay that is not it's not that simple and there's it's much more complex than that but when I like when I'm explaining to a client the over over consuming calories and under consuming it's just an easy round it's just an easy way to get them to to grasp that hey listen that 500 calorie one thing you did is not going to even put a pound of fat on your body so don't beat yourself up over it like relax you know so I also think the same thing is true when I'm looking at a body type and they're struggling so hard to put muscle on but then they can lean out really easy explaining them what kind of body type they're more likely and the benefits of being that kind of a body type and vice versa when they're the on the other end of the extreme when they're like man Adam I just cannot lose weight for the life of me look at something I gain weight yeah look at something I gain weight is I find it I think I find it a good way to be able to kind of explain to people their body types even though we know that it's way more complex you know it's funny about this if I'm not mistaken the person who created this was a I think a zoologist I think is the right term they're into eugenics yeah and and basically they you know what he what he did was he categorized humans by the way I don't know if you guys know this the original the person that came up with this also came up with personality characteristics for each of these that's the same person that's I believe it's I mean that's not spelled right right it's somatotype isn't it somatotype it's too it's not an end I thought it was an end no I think it's a T so I want I'm curious like tomato type who who created that somatotype so look up his name Doug I can't remember his name off the top of my head that's spelled correctly yeah and look up it I think there's a dark history of eugenics in there too maybe because really who cat people who tend to characterize people like humans into category because they used to attribute also characteristics like for example I thought it was a marketing thing that's what I thought it was then it was used for marketing yeah it's very valuable right marketing it's a smart strategy oh you've been doing the wrong diet and workout it's a psychologist William Herbert Sheldon in the 1940s so they they would also attach it's a taxonomy that's why I said zoology just a verb excuse me a word describing like characterizing animals or whatever they would also characterize characteristics I don't know if you guys ever heard this old stereotype that like you know endomorphs or people who tend to be a little overweight tend to be more jolly and happy have you guys ever heard that no or people who are like more like ectomorphs they tend to be a little bit more quiet and timid because of the jiggle more yeah I you guys you never heard that no oh yeah I don't know if Doug maybe knows that he's hurt some way so do we was your theory wrong then this person did not also create the other thing you said what the because that's the character the characteristics yeah I don't know if it was him or other people you made a leap on something maybe maybe but I can't surprise you guys never heard that before no I haven't heard that and you know again my point to it because I know you guys were starting to go the direction of it being not very valuable anymore and as a coach and trainer I found value in it to help explain things and this is an area where I actually don't like when the fitness like industry loves to tear something down that we've disproved or like shit on something like the you know also how many calories equals a pound of how much calories does a pound of muscle versus a pound of fat there's all kinds of stuff to to say that all that 60 calories is not true and hey at the end of the day I think from the perspective of a trainer and coach who's trying to explain this super complex thing around nutrition and the body and how to get their body composition changed and how to be healthy and all these complex things that the average person just has no clue about these types of things I found helped me explain certain reasons why maybe they didn't notice this or they noticed that I just wouldn't live and die by it as an individual well what I wouldn't read this is I wouldn't encourage people to read this and be like this is no and I think that's the takeaway from this question is that you know what they did do just like it's something that had some value to it we it's been bastardized and now used to market to people so don't buy into the there's a diet and a workout plan specific for your body type that's definitely not true so if you know if you run into something like that I think that's a bunch of bullshit but for the average person trying to learn their body type and understand it better I found value in that