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This can then be translated into a customized-tailored exercize regimen, routine, work-outs and plan, to get results, not necessarily weight-loss, but overall fitness, increased well-being and health. It advocates more of a holistic-type approach to both exercise, fitness, weight loss, management and self-preservation. The premise is to use what nature has bestowed upon and given naturally, the processes and dynamics of the body, to get the best results.
Trying to grasp and capture the variation in human physical properties and appearance is also known as anthropometry or the measuring of the human being. Utilizing these bodily dimensions and then customizing products around it, is quite a common practice in fields like ergonomics, clothing design, even architexture. Not so much so in the field of fitness, health and wellness, weight loss and management, and overall optimal functioning type considerations, products and services. We have somehow overlooked, underestimated or not conisdered it seriously enough it seems. It can in fact hold and harbor some real secrets, cues and clues as to what to expect when we use the one to better understand and maximize the other. Quite the thought! How revolutionary is that?
Most of the initial findings in the anthropometry, was based on Sheldon’s work. He took extensive care to meticulously observe and document these variations in body types. This was done in one of his most well-known experiments where he actaully photographed the living bodily features and physique of approximately four thousand males (taking a look from all angles (front, back and sides)
THREE TYPES WERE identified in this fashion. These are the so-called SOMATOTYPES.
ENDOMORPH - digestive system, prone to being somewhat overweight, being more tolerant, creatures of comfort, routine and habit, luxury matters, loving eating, interaction with others (people and food) Jolly, round and fat - typically obese-prone.
Research has shown time and again that modern trends indicate that this particular type is at higher risk for conditions like addiction, substance abuse, depression, bipolar and panic attacks (related disorders, discsomforts and being overweigth, unhealthy, carrying extra pounds around).
MESOMORPH - muscle, heart and blood, prone to be more muscular, well-built, stronger physique, even athletic build. High-energy, outgoing, strong-willed and tempered, dynamic, even coming across as risk-prone, active and sporty, competitive. Butch or Jock-types like football players will typically fall into this category.
ECTOMORPH - nervous system, prone to being somewhat underweight, thin or slim. Artistic by nature, more sensitive, self-aware and socially reserved.
(Source link for graphics: http://www.time-to-run.com/physiology/bodytype.htm)
Number values were assigned between 1 and 7 for each of the body types and predictions made regarding myriads of things.
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Biometrics and measurements of the human frame are closely related and modern trends try to accommodate both.
This is not about anatomy or physiology, it has to do with opinions, behavior and some psychometric data, studies of old that still resonates well today. It paves the way for future research into the dynamics and applications of these and similar sciences, as we continue our on-going quest to better understand our human bodies and system, how they work, function and should be in peak condition, optimal performance.
Your own body-type perception can have an effect on you, your behaviors and more. The labels might have you favoring one or the other through a bias/prejudice filter.
As we delve deeper into some of the more neurobiological types of study, research and recent development of new scientific methods, to measure and determine truths about these different body types, we might just be on the brink of a breakthrough. Some of the body type theory can even be traced as fas back as Aristotles thinking and teachings.
According to the legacy of some of the initial research and classifications, including some criminology type work done in France by Alphonse Bertillon (1853), some of these boney structures and characteristics indicate human physique variation, as unique as fingerprints for example (that only came later) and that they can be used to tell people apart, they are that distinct and unique. These measurements also do not change a huge degree throughout your adult life. In total there are eleven measurements that depict and capture these ‘body type’ features. They are, (in no particular order):
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- Height
- Length of head: Crown to forehead
- Length of left cubit: Elbow to tip of middle finger
- Length of left foot
- Length of left little finger.
- Length of left middle finger
- Length of right ear
- Stretch: Length of body from left shoulder to right middle finger when arm is raised
- Width of cheeks
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