I dunno if i spelled those right, but i can't seem to figure out which i am.
I'm strong ALL the time, i don't need to workout and i'm still the strongest kid that i've met, but i am fat, i think i might be a mesamorph that got off to a bad start. I've been losing weight quite easily for a while. In my past years I did nothing but eat a lot, play computer a lot and sleep a lot. What do you think?

do you have broad shoulders? got pics?

sounds like you maybe mostly meso with a little endo.

Yeah, i have really broad shoulders, i have stretchmarks from the growing so fast. I suffered from lots of growing pains.

yeah... same here. sounds like your definitly a meso-endo.

but... if you can post a pic im sure we can give you a better answer.


if you have trouble gaining muscle.... you are an ecto... seems like thats out of question. if you gain fat and muscle easy..... meso or endo for sure. if you loose fat easy... then id put you in meso mostly with a little endo... depending on where most of your last fat storage lays. the last remaining fat storage on me lays around my mid section and lower back.... and i have a broad shoulder and chest area which increases the v or tappering down to my waist... my gut would look a lot worse if i didnt have this going for me.

im guessing you have a kind of a large head... correct? not in terms of ego.... but size. lol

I think perhaps your percieved strength is relative. Alot of people dont put much stock in meso, endo and ecto terms as most people are a blend of ussually two of them. You might think your strong and relative to the population you might even be quite strong, however unless you work out, you wont either be fit or actually realize your full potential. Ive never met anybody who didtn work out (I include hard manual labour jobs as well) who was really really strong. Sometimes strength like real world tests are influenced by body weight and other things. So Im thinking that unless you can like deadlift a car, your probably ineed on some work.

Look, William Sheldon was crazy. Somatotyping is a ridiculous theory from back in the 40s and it has very little basis in fact.

The theory is that beings "center themselves" on different systems in their bodies, and this necessarily connects their body types and their personalities, which both derive from this "centering."

According to this theory, all fat people are jolly, all muscular people are aggressive, and all thin people are socially restrained. This happens in utero, as you become fundamentally centered on your endoderm, which grows into your digestive tract, your mesoderm, which grows into your muscles, or your ectoderm, which grows into your nervous system. It's all really silly.

Apparently, all personalities are made up of a combination of these three elements. If it sounds familiar, that's because it is. Really, it's all a rehashing of the really really old Doctrine of the Humours, which derives from the even more ancient idea of the Four Elements, which we all should have learned are both ridiculous around when we started realizing the folly of bleeding people with leeches whenever anything was wrong with them - or, at the very latest, when Mendeleev started up the Periodic Table.

But hey, pseudoscientists love the classics.

The three body types do very roughly correspond to certain tendencies a person can encounter while weight training (being an easy or hard gainer, for one) - but naming the body parts with these terms that refer to personalities gets in the way of the central facts that you have control over your body, that you can change its type through diet and exercise, and that your personality and your overall body shape don't necessarily have all that much to do with one another.

It would be nice if the bodybuilding community (whose work does have basis in fact) developed its own terms for bodytyping so we didn't have to keep trotting out Sheldon's embarassments.

Anyway, sorry for the nonsequitur. I return you to the regularly scheduled thread, where people are no doubt being much more helpful and less curmudgeony than myself ;)

Well-said Pete. It doesn't really matter what you are. How would you adjust your training depending on what you 'ascertained'? Very unlikely you'd do anything different. Of course some people have slower metabolisms and have to eat less and/or do more cardio to lose fat. And of course some people gain muscle more easily than others. Some have a very hard time. But diet and especially training will not be radically different depended on suppossed body type.