Just Your Type: The Ultimate Guide to Eating and Training Right for Your Body Type

by Phil Catudal, Stacey Colino (With)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738285481
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	05/14/2019
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	409,015
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Phil Catudal, MBA, is an NASMCPT-certified celebrity trainer in the greater Los Angeles area who is often referred by top Hollywood managers, agents, and casting directors to their celebrity clients.

Stacey Colino, MSJ, is an award-winning writer, specializing in health and fitness, as well as an ACE-certified health coach and certified group exercise instructor.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 The Typecasting Story 1

2 What's Your Body Type? 11

3 Need-To-Know Body Basics 23

4 The Ectomorph RX 39

5 The Mesomorph RX 57

6 The Endomorph Rx 75

7 Hybrid Body Types 93

8 Building Mental Fitness 105

9 Mindful Shortcuts and Contingency Plans 121

10 Next-Level Greatness 135

Conclusion 145

A Note from the Author 149

Appendix A The Exercises 151

Appendix B Recipes 189

Selected Bibliography 205

Acknowledgments 209

Index 211

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2019

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. Agent: Rick Broadhead, Rick Broadhead & Associates Literary. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"This book is your opportunity to learn from the best."—Van Jones, TV commentator, host of CNN's The Van Jones Show and author of Beyond the Messy Truth

"I started training with Phil, and within weeks I felt like a new person — healthier and stronger, physically and emotionally."—Dr. Joy J. Jacobs, clinical psychologist and frequent guest on The Doctors

"Phil Catudal will make you a better human and give you a better body."—Sarah Shahi, actress, Person of Interest

"Just Your Type will give you insight into Phil's methods, his philosophy, and his expertise to understand YOUR body."—Steve Howey, actor, Shameless

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