Thread: FT & ST fiber identification & your body type

Originally Posted by M1CH43L

Sure have
twice and have them downloaded on my PC.

might be time to watch them again because i may have forgotten something that your referring too, right?

yep,you sure have

Most bodytypes do not change from what I know, lanky stays lanky, stocky stays stocky, etc ... but yes muscle quality matures & people change for many reasons over the years.. so it is no big deal to update and re- bodytype yourself appropriately as you see fit.

Originally Posted by RazZ

Most bodytypes do not change from what I know, lanky stays lanky, stocky stays stocky, etc ... but yes muscle quality matures & people change for many reasons over the years.. so it is no big deal to update and re- bodytype yourself appropriately as you see fit.

Fair enough; but surely the fundamental body type remains? Is it not, as mentioned earlier, physical changes brought about my hormones, diet, lack of exercise etc?

So once a meso, always? Or not? (all other things being equal)

As far as body type goes, can someone have parts of all three? Or is it kind of like a scale from ecto to endo with meso the kind of middle ground...?

its either one of the three,but u can also have a bit of one of the other,

Its possible to be somewhere inbetween a mix of two... but 3 is a stretch.. I guess you could have a mix of two with some unexpected twitch fiber variation that loosely speaking isnt commonly found on that body type in that ratio.

I've read a few times that hamstrings are comprised mainly of fast twitch fibres so react best to heavy and explosive work. Not sure if anyone else has heard the same...

all the muscles have different slow/fast twitch fibre make ups (like the hastring post above, delts are slow as another example)

your training history can also detirmine this too as sprinters perform a lot of ballistic work and are full of FT where marathon runners do long slow, shit and are full of ST

i also think your work capacity come sinto this as someone might fatigue easily and thing they're fast twitch when really they're just out of shape

it's important to know the differecne between be fast twich/slow twitch muscle dominant and anaerobic/aerobic dominant