![]() ![]() This is not as easy as it would seem because modern life has skewed how we ought naturally to look, due to the amount of food we eat and our lack of exercise. The first step is to identify your somatotype. I’ve had many clients who have transformed themselves from either fat, to slim and muscular,or from thin to athletic. So what does this all mean for someone who wants to “change” their body-shape? If you are born with strong endomorphic traits, are you doomed to always being overweight and lethargic? Will an ectomorph have to settle for being skinny and shapeless all their lives? The answer is a resounding: No!Įxercise, diet, and general lifestyle can completely change your shape and appearance. Scientists hoped that the study of faces could be used to pinpoint a ‘criminal look’ which could help police identify criminals, perhaps even before they committed a crime. Judging a person’s character, intelligence and worthiness, by their appearance is a fool’s errand. Unsurprisingly though, Sheldon’s initial visual methodology has been discounted (as has any serious study of physiognomy), as subjective and largely discredited. I have always been interested in physiognomy (the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance - especially their facial features) and combining the two disciplines has an immediate appeal as both theories compliment and support one another. While I knew about the physical element of somatotyping I never knew about the psychological aspect of it and have found it fascinating. He was the proponent of a school of thought that held that the size and shape of a person's body indicated intelligence, moral worth and future achievement. ![]() In his 1954 book, Atlas of Men, Sheldon categorized all possible body types according to a scale ranging from 1 to 7 for each of the three "somatotypes", where the pure "endomorph" is 7–1–1, the pure "mesomorph" 1–7–1 and the pure "ectomorph" scores 1–1–7.Ĭontroversially, Sheldon felt that from one’s somatotype number, an individual's mental characteristics could supposedly be predicted. In Atlas of Men, Sheldon breaks the three Somatotypes into 88 different categories. * Hard to gain muscle (known as a “hardgainer”) * Medium build, rectangular/wedge body shape ![]() Most people are unique combinations of the three body types: endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph. People are born with an inherited body type based on skeletal frame and body composition. Keep in mind that these are generalizations, and that most of us have characteristics of two or even all three somatotypes. The gist is that everyone falls, though not altogether neatly, into the three categories below. Since then, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and doctors have used it to help design effective, individualized fitness plans. William Sheldon, MD, introduced the concept of body types, or somatotypes, in the 1940s. ![]()
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