Bone Structure (2025/124)

Without bones, we would have no structure! Bone size is basically something you inherit. Big bones make you an endomorph, small bones make you an ectomorph (that's us, by the way) and in between you would be a mesomorph.

Exercise - and the use of your body to lift, pull and push things, puts muscle on the bones. Deliberate training encourages more muscle growth, the basis of bodybuilding. But pushing things and pulling things, at every stage of your life, helps to maintain bone strength (so many elderly people break bones easily because they have a sedentary life and have not exercised much during their lives anyway.

So, what we are saying here is that your basic bone structure determines your basic build, and your training them moves you on towards your physical goals and, most importantly keeps you healthy.

This blog shows you typically excellent results: although we tend to show younger guys because their muscle structure is always more visible ('definition'), it applies at all ages.In the gym we presently use, there are guys over 80 years old making sure that their bones remain healthy... and, although the weights they push and pull are much less than ours, the important thing is that they are making the effort!

So no excuses, right? You won't look like today's models overnight, but you could certainly approach their level if you keep exercising! You might like to classify each one as an endo-, and ecto-, or a mesomorph!