Somatotypes only matter when...

[Deleted member 1660]

Your body is fully developed and grown (up to 30)

This was eddie hall at 13

This is him now:

Somatotypes are at the end of the day, over-simpistic, and somewhat arbitrary characterizations of body types. For starters, a lot of the measurements used to classify the somatotypes are not entirely genetics-dependent, e.g. bicep circumference.

If someone who starts out as an "ectomorph" can decides to train bodybuilding style and eat surplus calories for decades and achieve a seriously impressive bicep (along with other measurements like calf size), does he now become a mesomorph? Then, at least the way somatotypes are commonly referred to as a genetic trait is misguided.

To classify a truly genetics-dependent body type, only factors that are genetically dependent, largely immutable, non-training-stimulus-dependent should be considered - e.g. wrist / ankle circumference, bone density, dimensions of the ribcage (ratio length vs. width), ratio of type 1 vs type 2 muscle fibers, the amount of fat cells you have, hormonal profile, etc.

 

[chasingaesthetics]

+ to add the reason why many use the ecto excuse for lack of progress dont understand that muscle is a lot harder to build from nothing rather than if you had already built the muscle before and re-attain it via muscle memory

 

[Adonis]

Eddie Hall looked better at 13 lmao.
Roidcopers on suicide watch.

 

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Your body is fully developed and grown (up to 30)

This was eddie hall at 13
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This is him now:
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Somatotypes are at the end of the day, over-simpistic, and somewhat arbitrary characterizations of body types. For starters, a lot of the measurements used to classify the somatotypes are not entirely genetics-dependent, e.g. bicep circumference.

If someone who starts out as an "ectomorph" can decides to train bodybuilding style and eat surplus calories for decades and achieve a seriously impressive bicep (along with other measurements like calf size), does he now become a mesomorph? Then, at least the way somatotypes are commonly referred to as a genetic trait is misguided.

To classify a truly genetics-dependent body type, only factors that are genetically dependent, largely immutable, non-training-stimulus-dependent should be considered - e.g. wrist / ankle circumference, bone density, dimensions of the ribcage (ratio length vs. width), ratio of type 1 vs type 2 muscle fibers, the amount of fat cells you have, hormonal profile, etc.

Wtf he used to be a hairline mogger