More and more sports disciplines are born, creating more doubts as to which of them we could enroll in, or which of them would be better for the characteristics of our body shape.
Many of the people who decide to enter physical exercise wonder which activity to attend. Which routine would be the one that best suits my body, is the thought that especially new users to sport have.
Know which sport modality could be better for you according to your body shape.
Why is body shape important when doing sports?
By nature, everyone is born with a predisposition to accumulate fat in a specific area of the body. This accumulation of fat, together with other types of indicators such as the shape of your back, or the width of your hips, makes your body acquire a specific silhouette over time.
Identifying the shape of your body is key to know how to counteract the effects and be able to apply the correct exercises that help us shape our silhouette to our liking.
You must bear in mind that no type of body is better or but that another, since we will always be unhappy whatever type of body we have, so the main objective is to get used to and accept our body and power get the most out of physical activity to reverse and change body composition.
How to correctly identify our body shape?
If you want to identify the shape of your body , follow the criteria that we propose below:
- If your body tends to accumulate fat in the upper and lower extremities, but your waist remains slim, you present an hourglass body .
- Straight body : it is the one that is known when there are few curves, generally narrow hips are presented.
- Spoon-shaped body : this is when most of the accumulated fat occurs in the legs, hips and buttocks.
- If you accumulate most of the fat in the upper body, but the legs remain slim, it is a cone-shaped body .
Best sports according to your body shape
Although physical exercise should not be chosen by looking at our body shape, but according to our tastes, if it is true that depending on the activity we perform, we can modify our body shape, making it possible for us to change and mold it, always as far as possible, according to our preferences.
Here is a guide where you can help you choose the sport that best suits your morphology . By this we do not mean that other physical activity is counterproductive for you, we only want to help the undecided to settle and advise them that they could practice if they really want to change their somatic body.
1. Hourglass body
The best exercises are rope jumping, cycling, and weight training combined with cardiovascular exercises. The exercises that you should avoid would be bootcamp, Crossfit and kickboxing, since they tend to increase the silhouette of this type of somatic body.
2. Straight bodies
They can choose any activity, since they will benefit regardless of the sport for which they choose to practice.
3. Spoon-shaped body
If you have this body shape, jumping rope, cycling or cardio work on the elliptical will do you good. On the other hand, you should be careful when doing bodybuilding exercises, since you will have to compensate the weaker muscles so as not to create imbalances.
4. Cone-shaped body
When a cone-shaped body is presented, we can practice running and bodybuilding the decompensated areas, being careful with the bodybuilding exercises for the already developed areas and avoid exercises that overload the extremities, such as kickboxing.
Conclution
If you are deciding to practice physical activity, but you do not know which one to choose, we advise you to take into account the shape of your body to choose an activity that, in addition to improving your health, can help you obtain bodily improvements.
Reference
- Jackowski, E. How to Find the Best Workout for Your Body Shape. For Livestrong. (Revised January 2018).
