Mesomorph Body Type
Posted on Feb 14, 2007 | Comments 14
Mesomorph is sport and athletic built, has more muscular looking, healthy, good physical attributes, broad shoulders, visible defined muscle-packs, good stature and build, making a good impression, exhuberating vitality and energy.
Characterized as typically social and very outgoing, always surrounded by outdoors, company and activity, these groups of indivdiuals are mostly considered and described by others to be strong-willed and tempered.
They are dynamic personalities, active and extremists at times, highly competitive. Football player-types, even body-builders will typically fall into this category.
Everyone wish to be of mesomorphic body type, but unfortunately very few have this type of body. Mesomorphs have the advantage of dropping the weight quickly and gaining it easily. A mesomorph can easily lose fat with doing one or two cardio workouts a week and can get good results.
They can lose the fat while holding on to muscle which gives them a calorie burning advantage. If mesomorphs do more cardio workout sessions, they lose more fat than ectomorphs and endomorphs as the greater muscle mass helps in burning more calories.
Mesomorphs can build the body easily. They have to follow body building basics and healthy eating to maintain desirable physique. As a mesomorphic can generally build muscle and lose fat easily, they become lazy to exercise and overindulge in eating because they think that their body type will make lose weight. The female mesomorph shape is an hourglass while male mesomorph is more rectangular. A mesomorph should also follow strict diet and exercise program.
Mesomorph body type characteristics:
- They contain lean shaped figures
- They have heavy, hard and athletic physique mostly
- Fast metabolism would enable them to enjoy favorite foods
- It is easier for them to maintain correct weight
- Their body is built proportionately and healthy physical appearance and definition
- They have broad shoulder, with narrow waist
- Weight control and management is no real problem for mesomorph type
- This type body has very high amount of lean muscle
- They are quite muscular
- Naturally large muscles and fast metabolism
- These body types have lower body fat percentage overall
- They are less strict on dieting
- Less exercise is needed to control weight for mesomorphs
- Less chance of weight regain for this type
How to identify and know mesomorph body type?
- They tend to burn calories effectively, quickly and they are in control and demand of their weight management
- They can sustain their weight and then lose it fairly easily if they put their mind to it, when they want to
- Losing weight is not a challenge for them
- When they look in the mirror the shape they see is proportional
- Their hips are typically a little smaller and their shoulders are wide
- Most would consider them of medium build or even large-framed, average
- Their clothes have to accommodate pretty wide shoulders
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I just wanted to know who the author(s) of the article is? I am writing a research paper and this information would be vital!
thanks, nicky
I just wanted to know how much exercise should a Mesomorph body type should get to lose fat? When I really push it and get two, one hour workouts a day I gain weight.
hi i have a mesomorph body type and i was just wondering, are mesomorphy body typed people shortt?? ive just recently turned 18 n im 5ft 8, havent grown for about 2-3yrs, im very muscular even though i hardly go gym, my feet are still growing :S my dads 6ft 1 n i have bigger feet then him? i ws just wonderingg what peoples opinions might bee ?? thanks very much
i think i’m a mesomorph body time — i am 23, female, about 5ft (1.52m), asian, i have big feet too! makes my arms look lean and nice though (the distance from the elbow to wrist is equal to the foot length).
personally i like to exercise but not too much — if i overdo it i find i eat a lot more (and tend to snack on a lot of junk food).
i also think i’m a mesomorph. i’m 18, female, 5’4″, larger feet for my size, broad shoulders. i’m very average build-130 lbs, but naturally more muscular than other girls my size. i am also quite hour-glass shaped. i’ve never really tried hard to lose or gain weight, but when i do exercise i feel that i see improvements very quickly. are there any other tips to determine if you are a mesomorph or not?
Hey I hope I’m mesomorphic I was 185 lbs when I was 13 yrs old, I’ve played basketball, football and rugby and now that I’m 20 yrs old I’ve grown to 5’10 being 220 lbs. I used to wieght train but since last year I’m now using resistance training to build a leaner muscle mass and I run every 2nd day. Oddly enought I’ve been doing this while watching what I eat for like 4 months and I’m still floating in the same wieght of 220 and legs are a husky 27″. If you were to compare me to someone oddly enough I would have the same build as the great “iron” mike tyson, yet I’m trying to get rail skinny, is there any hope for me?
Hi, i would consider myself to be an ecto-mesomorph. I’m 17, 5’11” nd 163 lbs. Im tall nd lanky, but i also have wide shoulders nd a big chest. My wrist,elbows,nd ankles are small. I can lose or gain weight extremely easily. For example i can go from 158-168 in one day nd on da second day im back to 158. Ima purty good marathoner for my age (3:12:51). But i can gain muscle mass nd lose fat easily. But if i run too much i lose all my muscle but i can gain it back in about a week.
Hello, I’m not sure if I’m mesomorph but it seems likely. I am 5’1, weigh usually in between 116-123lbs. I would either be considered medium or large framed. My shoulders are larger than my waist. I have a fairly flat 2 pack with big thighs. I don’t see how this factors in but I have small hands and my shoe size is 6 1/2. I lose weight very easily.
I was trying to figure out which catigory I’m in. I know I’m DEFFANITLY a pear shape, and finally I came across an article that says, most pear shapes are ‘mesomorphs’ , This catigory sounds like me more than the others. Thought pears are generally unporpotunate!..lol I have broad shoulders, (like a linebacker) and my collerbone is well defined. My stomach seems to gets nice and flat even if its a 10 minute cardio workout. I get muscle definition in my arms pretty easily. My hips are aTEENSY bit wider then my shoulders thought, but not alot. Anyhoo…i used to be a sedetary 150 pound pear about 3 yrs ago..Now I’m a nice small pear..hehe..
25 yr old female
Hieght: 5’1
Wieght: 111
Bust 31
Waist 25
Hips 36
Neck 12 inches
forarms 10 inches
shoe size ussually a 6-7
Generally I thought I was a ‘medium framed’ atleast from all my measurments of my wrist and the elbow measurments BOTH said my frame was meduim. But I read I read somewhere,ussually someone of my hieght are ‘small framed, I feel I should be 105 pounds, and at 116-120 I felt like I needed to go down more..
i am 16 years old, i weigh 172 pounds and i am 6’1″, i wear a shoe size of 11 1/2 to a 12, and i can burn up to 5 pounds in gym class. i play soccer and lacrosse, but i can also run a 5:45 mile, and 12:00 2 mile. i can run 6 second 50 yard sprints. i am wondering if my body type is mesomorphic, please help.
im currently 17, i wear a rough size 11.5 shoe size, depending on the make and model, im hungarian, im 5’10, i weigh 145 pounds, my hands are rather large, and i have been muscaler ever since i could rmbr without any type of weight training
You all are idiots. Who cares what type of body you think you are? Do what works for you to lose weight or gain muscle.
Aye, you, Bob. All of these people may not have what they need to get to the doctor and spend all of that money and time to get what they need, so they are doing their personal research. Besides, what kind of food do you eat? And does it matter? I’d say..go eat what an ectomorph is DESTINED to eat while you are an endomorph, and see how sick you get after awhile. Then go cry to God about it, because you wasted your time calling people names because you think life is easy. You can’t just get buffed out because you want to. You must have the information necessary to complete a journey. I eat about $100+ food every week, all by myself because I am a mesomorph. It is better to ask than to make mistakes, and if you ask, and then you know, it’s all on you. Get a job you like, go to church and work off your calories.
When I was 16, I did long distance running. I was very thin, 29″ waist, 36 inch chest, 5` 8″ tall. I was reasonably successful, though I did not pursue it seriously. I also played football (soccer) to a decent level. When I was 19, I suffered a really bad injury to my upper body while playing football. It took me a year to get fit enough to return to work, and during that time, it was stressed to me that I may need further operations as I grew older. I decided to buy some weights and started using them to build up my upper body strength in the hope that: by strengthening my shoulders and arms, I would be able to protect the previously injured area, thus lessening the likelyhood of needing further operations. I worked hard on weights, and went on to represent my country at a sport, in which I became a World Champion. At that time,I was 5 foot 8 inches tall, I weighed 10 stones, I had a 30 inch waist, 40 inch chest and 27 inch thighs. This was in the early nineties. I retired from that sport and went back to football, where I became a referee. I now weigh between 11.5 and 12 stones, have a 42 inch chest, 32 inch waist, 29 inch thighs, 19 inch neck, 18 inch biceps and feel as healthy as I have ever done. I use my dumbells 4 times a week. They are heavy, but I limit the repetitions, as I want to maintain the strength I have. To counterbalance the heavy weight training I do, I run 3 or 4 times a week, for a distance of on average 5 miles a time. This gives me the cardio workout I need to maintain overall health. I do not think I was naturally mesomorphic in stature, I do think that I fit that description now, but only because I conditioned myself.