"Seventy-two precious arts are held in a brocade bag, they're kept just like a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence in the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in more detail training methods if you use special tools and training equipment. Wonderful ways of adopting the flexibility in the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines that are kept being a treasure in the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people who genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to become a real hero, you have to often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises about the Pugilistic Art/ It is not very uncommon for ectomorphs often known as "hardgainers" to get frustrated and discouraged whenever they start attempting to put on pounds, and muscles. As an ectomorph your body uses a different list of rules when doing exercises. This is due to the fact our muscles less complicated more understanding of strain and tend to breakdown more quickly, in addition to taking longer to heal.