Discover What Your Body Type REALLY Is…
By: Boxfit India
Tags: Fitness, Celebrity, Body Types, Fitness Tips

The Different Female Body Types

Hourglass

Women with an hourglass body have their bust and hips at roughly the same measurement, while also having a narrower, defined waist. This is one of the curvy female body shapes.

Bipasha Basu — Image Credit: Fotoweb

Celebrities with a classic hourglass shape include Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, and Sonam Kapoor.

Triangle/Pear/Spoon

The triangle or pear-shaped body type is bottom-heavy, which means that your bust and shoulders are narrower than your hips and butt.

KIm Kardashian

Pear-shaped celebrities include Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, and Beyonce.

Inverted Triangle/Lollipop

The inverted triangle body type is the opposite of the pear shape — wider shoulders and bigger busts, but with narrow hips.

Celebrities with inverted triangle shapes include Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Zareen Khan and Ayesha Takia.

Straight/Rectangle/Banana

For straight or banana body types, your shoulders, waist, hip, and busts likely have around the same measurements. This gives off a more even, lean, rectangular-looking silhouette.

Bella Hadid

Celebrities with straight body types include Bella Hadid, Shruti Hasan, and Priyanka Chopra

Apple/Round

The apple body shape is a variation of the inverted triangle where you also have a thicker, less defined waist.

Women with round or apple body shapes tend to gain weight in their stomach more than any other body part.

Sonakshi Sinha

Celebrities with apple or round shapes include Sonakshi Sinha, Mindy Kaling and Queen Latifah.

Physique Classifications

Compared to body shapes, physique classifications talk less about your silhouette and more about how you gain weight and muscle.

There are 3 classifications:

Ectomorph

Ectomorphs are usually skinny, lean, or thin. They have a fast metabolism, which makes it hard for them to gain weight and build muscle.

Mesomorph

Mesomorphs have your classic athletic body. With a larger bone structure and average metabolism, they can build definition and gain muscle pretty easily.

Endomorph

Endomorphs are usually softer, rounder, and stockier than other physiques. They have a slow metabolism, so they often find it difficult to lose weight or get defined muscles.

What Body Type Am I?

To find out your body type, take this Body Type test!

1: Your shoulders are:

A. Wider than your hips

B. Narrower than your hips

C. Same as your hips

2: A pair of well-fitting jeans with the right waist size fits:

A. Loose around your glutes

B. Tight around your glutes

C. Perfect around your glutes

3: Your forearms are:

A. Big

B. Small

C. Average

4: You tend to:

A. Carry some extra fat

B. Stay skinny

C. Stay fit and muscular

5: Your body is mostly:

A. Pear

B. Mostly rectangle

C. Hourglass

6: If you use your middle finger and thumb to encircle your other hand’s wrist:

A. The fingers don’t touch

B. The fingers overlap

C. The fingers just touch

7: When it comes to weight, you:

A. Gain weight easily but have a hard time losing it

B. Find it difficult to gain and maintain weight

C. Have an easy time gaining or losing weight

If you answered:

Mostly A’s: Endomorph

Mostly B’s: Ectomorph

Mostly C’s: Mesomorph

What if you want to change your shape?

Taking regular exercise classes can help build lean muscle mass and give your body definition.

This may help you emphasise certain features or alter your overall shape.

For example, you might be able to give your arms more muscle definition by taking part in our Fire and Fury sessions.

However, it’s important to remember that a lot of what determines your shape is set in stone by your bone structure, genetics, and overall build.

Much like you can’t exercise your way into being taller, you can’t tell your body where to store fat.