What is your body type? Do you exercise for it?

unmatcheddiscipline
unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
edited November 21 in Fitness and Exercise
Here is a free safe web link to calculate what your body type is:

bodybuilding.com/fun/becker3.htm

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    edited July 2015
    I always thought the somatotypes were pretty useless.


    btw im actually a xenomorph.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    I always thought the somatotypes were pretty useless.

    You thought correct.

  • unmatcheddiscipline
    unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
    I don't know if this stuff is real. I thought all of this time I was a Mesomorph, now its saying I'm an Endomorph. I just want to morph to a fit and smaller body. :neutral:
  • KenziesFrenzies
    KenziesFrenzies Posts: 1,014 Member
    edited July 2015
    How am I supposed to know how thick my joints are?
    Can I base that off of having wrists & ankles on the slender side?

    According to the thing, I'm between an Mesomorph and an Endomorph.

    Not that I know what any of that even means. >_>
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    unmatcheddiscipline wrote: »
    I don't know if this stuff is real. I thought all of this time I was a Mesomorph, now its saying I'm an Endomorph. I just want to morph to a fit and smaller body. :neutral:

    eat less move more. That is how you get a fit smaller body unless you have a medical issue.
  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    unmatcheddiscipline wrote: »
    I don't know if this stuff is real. I thought all of this time I was a Mesomorph, now its saying I'm an Endomorph. I just want to morph to a fit and smaller body. :neutral:

    No one is 100% anything. Somatotypes do not dictate 'disadvantages' or 'advantages' of your body. It's based off of a 1940's experiment by Dr William Sheldon who was trying to find similar traits between body types. It's not really based on anything to do with the body... hence, the uselessness.
  • demoiselle2014
    demoiselle2014 Posts: 474 Member
    Ha! I didn't anticipate that this thread would be about somatotypes.

    I was going to come here and say that I'm a pear with narrow shoulders, so I'm trying to build some arm/shoulder/back muscle to balance me out visually.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    Ha! I didn't anticipate that this thread would be about somatotypes.

    I was going to come here and say that I'm a pear with narrow shoulders, so I'm trying to build some arm/shoulder/back muscle to balance me out visually.

    Well they way you describe yourself they have lots of songs for. "She get it from her momma."
  • demoiselle2014
    demoiselle2014 Posts: 474 Member
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    Ha! I didn't anticipate that this thread would be about somatotypes.

    I was going to come here and say that I'm a pear with narrow shoulders, so I'm trying to build some arm/shoulder/back muscle to balance me out visually.

    Well they way you describe yourself they have lots of songs for. "She get it from her momma."

    LOL, I don't think those songs are about my particular booty shape, though, even if I am a pear. Mostly, me being a pear means that I have no chest.

  • unmatcheddiscipline
    unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    Ha! I didn't anticipate that this thread would be about somatotypes.

    I was going to come here and say that I'm a pear with narrow shoulders, so I'm trying to build some arm/shoulder/back muscle to balance me out visually.

    Well they way you describe yourself they have lots of songs for. "She get it from her momma."

    LOL, I don't think those songs are about my particular booty shape, though, even if I am a pear. Mostly, me being a pear means that I have no chest.

    I wish I was a pear, these tits are annoying. Big tits are overrated, and get in the way.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    Ha! I didn't anticipate that this thread would be about somatotypes.

    I was going to come here and say that I'm a pear with narrow shoulders, so I'm trying to build some arm/shoulder/back muscle to balance me out visually.

    Well they way you describe yourself they have lots of songs for. "She get it from her momma."

    LOL, I don't think those songs are about my particular booty shape, though, even if I am a pear. Mostly, me being a pear means that I have no chest.

    hold on I thing I can find one that is for pear shape. Give me a quick second to search spotify.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    mackenzies_frenzies wrote: »
    How am I supposed to know how thick my joints are?
    Can I base that off of having wrists & ankles on the slender side?

    According to the thing, I'm between an Mesomorph and an Endomorph.

    Not that I know what any of that even means. >_>

    It says I'm an ectomorph and a mesomorph and I should weight train and avoid weight training. Great site.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    bodytype: awesome
    Training style: kick *kitten*

    so yes. I suppose I do.
  • unmatcheddiscipline
    unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
    sofaking6 wrote: »
    mackenzies_frenzies wrote: »
    How am I supposed to know how thick my joints are?
    Can I base that off of having wrists & ankles on the slender side?

    According to the thing, I'm between an Mesomorph and an Endomorph.

    Not that I know what any of that even means. >_>

    It says I'm an ectomorph and a mesomorph and I should weight train and avoid weight training. Great site.

    :lol::lol::lol::lol: right!!! Darn tards!
  • unmatcheddiscipline
    unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    bodytype: awesome
    Training style: kick *kitten*

    so yes. I suppose I do.

    Go girl!!! :wink:
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Eh, I don't really follow somatypes. I know that I lose fat/weight fastest from my legs and arms and that I don't have as much muscle/strength as a comparable women (height/weight) who have more curves(muscle) in their hips/butts/thighs. I wouldn't say that it makes a difference in my training other than having slower progress with adding weight to my squats.
  • demoiselle2014
    demoiselle2014 Posts: 474 Member
    edited July 2015
    If I take that test, it tells me simultaneously to avoid aerobic exercise and to engage in it, to lift heavy and slowly, but at a moderate pace with moderate-to-heavy weights, and to eat more than I'm used to, but watch out for slow-creeping fat gains.

    Hm. Reads like a horoscope.
  • unmatcheddiscipline
    unmatcheddiscipline Posts: 101 Member
    demoiselle2014 wrote: »
    If I take that test, it tells me simultaneously to avoid aerobic exercise and to engage in it, to lift heavy and slowly, but at a moderate pace with moderate-to-heavy weights, and to eat more than I'm used to, but watch out for slow-creeping fat gains.

    Hm. Reads like a horoscope.

    I know right, I feel cray for even adhering to it before.
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