Tag: body composition
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What 507 Athlete Cohorts Tell Us About Somatotype, and How to Use It
Somatotype scores physique on three components: fatness, muscularity, and linearity. Drawing on a reference dataset of 507 athlete cohorts, this article shows how builds converge by sport and position, from the most muscular powerlifters to the most linear volleyball players. It then separates the trainable components from the fixed ones, so the method can be…
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Ozempic Is Costing Your Clients Muscle: What the Science Says About Training Through GLP-1 Weight Loss
A quarter to nearly half of the weight lost on Ozempic and Mounjaro isn’t fat — it’s lean mass. The drug creates the deficit; what clients do inside it decides whether they keep their muscle. Why GLP-1 clients need adaptive, per-session programming, and why that’s impossible to deliver at scale by hand.
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Can You Change Your Somatotype? A Constrained-System View
Somatotype gets treated as a fixed label, but the Heath-Carter equations describe a constrained system. Height and bone breadth are locked; fat, muscle, and weight aren’t. A look at which inputs can actually move, by how much, and how fast — and why ectomorphy is the axis you don’t control directly.