The life observations of each of us with full confidence confirm the fact that people get fat in completely different ways. One is enough to eat a little sweet, and the weight will begin to increase. Others do not lose the elegance of their figure even after hearty dinners. Why is this happening? In most cases, it depends on the physique of the person. And it, as you know, is given to everyone by nature.
Three types are classified: normosthenic and hypersthenic. Determining whether a person belongs to any of these categories is quite simple. To do this, measure the circumference of the wrist, which is working. In the case when this indicator is in the range from sixteen to eighteen and a half centimeters, we can talk about a normosthenic physique. The figure of a person with such parameters basically has the correct ratios and proportionality of its main parts.
If the circumference of the wrist is less than sixteen centimeters, then classify asthenic (thin-boned) addition. In such people, there is a predominance of the longitudinal dimensions of the body over the transverse ones. They usually don't have big weight, a long and beautiful neck, a little and hands, and the muscles are poorly developed.
A wide bone (you see the photo below) indicates belonging to a hypersthenic build.
People belonging to this type have a transverse body size that is much larger than that of asthenics and normosthenics. The circumference of the wrist of a person whose bone is wide exceeds eighteen and a half centimeters. This one is characterized by the shoulders and chest. While the bone is wide, it is also somewhat heavy. Hypersthenics more than others tend to be overweight.
There is also an indicator of the ratio of a person's height to the length of his legs. There are also certain proportions. In the case when the length of a person's legs is less than half of his height, they are considered short. Women should not be upset about this. Everything can be fixed with high heels. Those who have a wide bone, and legs two to four centimeters more than half the height, can consider their figure beautiful. For normosthenics, this indicator is within four to six, and for asthenics - six to nine centimeters.
The correct ones for those who have a wide bone are within the following limits:
Eight to ten centimeters more than half the height;
- waist circumference is within seventy-seventy-six centimeters (height is 166-168 cm);
- hip circumference with the same height - ninety-five - one hundred and four centimeters.
For asthenic and normosthenic body types, these figures are somewhat lower.
Girls with broad bone can have a beautiful and attractive figure. Their difference from representatives of other body types lies only in the width of the wrist, hips and shoulders. At the same time, all women should remember that any of them are distinguished from the crowd by a graceful gait, a straight head, a proud posture, as well as the ability to freely control their body, and not indicators of the ideal figure.
A lot of people who suffer from being overweight today grew up in families where fullness was considered hereditary. Although in the process of communicating with nutritionists, it turned out that the reason for everything is the wrong lifestyle, to which all family members are accustomed.
Yes, most often to blame are rich borscht, in which there are spoons, fatty meatballs, as well as joint evenings at the TV under “something tasty”.
Often, what we think of as an irresistible genetic feature turns out to be just the result of overeating. Is it bad? Of course not, that means we can fix it!
Myth or reality: does it happen?
Pictured are two twin sisters. Those. parents, heredity and predisposition they have in common! They love to confuse genetics and wrong eating habits instilled in the family! “Everyone in my family is full” is correct: everyone eats dumplings with mayonnaise at night.
IMPORTANT POINT: yes, differences in skeletal structures do exist, it is foolish to deny it. There are girls with wide hips even with a low percentage of fat, and there are owners of a boyish figure and an almost complete absence of curves.
People with narrower bones tend to have smaller hands and feet, thin fingers if a woman, then narrow shoulders, narrow chest. Those who have wider bones in their structure, respectively, and wider feet and wrists, and, most importantly within the framework of this article, large quantity muscle mass .
The wider the bone, the more muscle that are attached to it. But if you believe that muscle is much heavier than fat, then we advise you to watch this video. It perfectly shows that the weight of animal fat and muscle is about the same!
There are other data on this topic. Muscle weighs more than fat, but not at times, due to different density:
muscle density - 1.3 gr. on see;
fat density - about 0.9 gr. on cm.
This means that fat weighs less than muscle by about one and a half times. There is a difference, but not as significant as many people think.
Therefore, with all the parameters taken into account, complaints about the very “wide bone”, which adds from 5 to 15 kg. to the total body weight of a person, to "fat power" and genetic predisposition to increased weight gain, in fact, are not quite comparable with real situation of things.
And the amount of fat is absolutely not related to the wide bone. Let your hips be a little wider than others, but it will be two big differences: whether they will be with 10 kg of fat on them or with 2. Yes, a wide bone can give external massiveness (although you must admit, this is more than attractive), but not the extra 50kg of fat.
Photo
Look, in the left picture it seems that the girl has a very broad shoulders, however, after losing weight, it becomes clear that it is not bones, but fat that makes it so square 
Hips narrowed 🙂 How to determine?
How to understand if the bone is wide or not? Feel yourself 🙂 If you feel fat through the skin, then, alas, you won’t be able to blame it on the bones. But if under the skin you feel a hard surface with a slight fat layer, then you are the happy owner of chic, wide hips, which the vast majority of men consider sexy!
What means?
The search for a wide bone means one thing: that you clearly need to lose weight! Many people believe in the "big bone" more than the big bang theory. Except for the inside where the brain is located, bones are solid structures made of calcium.
Once you stop growing, you can't change the size of your bones without seriously harming your health. However, you can change the size of body fat. This is what will help you change your appearance. Therefore, read this article to the end and find out how to solve the problem.
So what if you don’t see a waist like that of a young Gurchenko? But they did not approach Krachkovskaya either. So love yourself and take care of yourself without any complexes!
How to lose weight?
What is body positivity in simple words?
Unfortunately, the true meaning of body positivity is now lost behind the showdown of fat ladies with clothing companies (as well as, by the way). The message is that a person (yes, not only women, but also men) is not obliged to be “attractive” for anyone according to some gloss standards.
If a person is satisfied with his own beauty, he is not obliged to chase after utopian newfangled trends. We are absolutely not against the overweight and support such a body-positive: you don’t need to be like someone else, you need to be better than yourself yesterday. Let a person decide for himself what kind of life he should live.
Love yourself the way you are. But do not harm other people with this, do not force them to love you - your freedom ends where the freedom of another person begins!
Body positivity is about diversity of beauty. About the ability to see it everywhere - in others, in yourself. Around. About your right to have a nose, not like the models in the magazine, and a couple of extra pounds. About the ability to enjoy the possibilities of your body - from running jumping into the water to sex.
Love yourself, but don't indulge yourself! There is a lot of talk today about love, especially about loving yourself first. But no one talks about what kind of love this should be. No one says that love can be painful: overprotective, destructive, pulling back, hindering progress.
No one says that love is not the satisfaction of all one's desires, it is not self-pity, it is not “wrapping oneself in cotton wool” and intentionally avoiding difficulties. True love is not about following your destructive habits, but about getting better, moving forward: taking care of your health and well-being.
Self love should make you a better person. If it's not, then it's a surrogate. Chocolate, cigarette, Bloody Mary - these are not manifestations of your love for yourself, but only an ersatz one slipped into your subconscious.
For example, you decide to go on a diet, but at the same time perceive it as a severe restriction, as a mockery. You suffer from refusing high-calorie, fatty, sweet foods. And in the depths of your subconscious, the conclusion is born that you do not love yourself, since you voluntarily doom yourself to such sacrifices.
Your subconscious thinks within the framework that you yourself have given it. Everything is mixed up in your life - it seems to you that self-love, true pleasure lies in following your emotions and the thoughts that you associate with them, and the slightest deviation from a given trajectory is stress and pain.
Remember, everything is in your head and everything is in your hands. Our article can help you deal with similar problems.
A funny video
Do not be upset because of the weight, but rather listen to the cool song “Oh, you are a wide bone”:
You've probably already heard from overweight people once: "It's just heavy bones!" But with this myth, you can do away with it once and for all. Finally find out if heavy bones really exist.
How heavy are our bones?
Is overweight caused by heavy bones? This is a myth and lazy excuse of fat people. This has been confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Education and scientific research. The bones form the structure of the skeleton, which supports the body and allows the body to stand upright.
In an average person, bones make up about 8 to 9% of the total body weight. It would be only 7.2 kg at 80 kilograms. Not at all a reason to be overweight.
The weight of a bone is derived from its size and density. Thus, individual bones have different weights. In general, women have somewhat lighter and thinner bones than men. Moreover, due to high mobility, healed injuries, as well as genetic predisposition, bone density can vary. However, these fluctuations are at most 10% within the bone mass and are not more than one kilogram per person.
What then makes people heavy?
What really leads to being overweight is the accumulated fat in our body. Which is a consequence too a large number food or unbalanced nutrition, which is stored as a reserve for a rainy day. Of course, there is another reason why some non-fat people are heavier than others. Muscle is very heavy compared to fat. So a muscular man weighs more than a thin and unathletic one.
Heavy people are somewhat denser and therefore bones become heavier over time. Because their body needs more support, and it doesn't matter whether it's too much fat or too much muscle mass. Such somewhat heavier bones do not cause overweight.
Can bone density be improved?
By poor diet or diseases such as osteoporosis leads to a decrease in bone density. As a result, damage to the skeleton and serious consequences for health. However, you can influence your bone density yourself. Through a diet rich in calcium, bones are strengthened. In addition, frequent and regular exercise also contributes to the development of dense and stable bones.
Researchers' opinion
Canadian scientists have found that the higher the load, the wider and heavier the bone. Before drawing this conclusion, they observed the physical activity of adolescents. Researchers claim that sport helps not to break down in the literal sense. Not only muscles become stronger, but also the skeleton. It is known that a person has exactly 206 bones. All of them form a vertical column. Thanks to him, the body can afford to walk on two legs. The human hand is considered the most bony - it consists of more than 54 elements.
Tubular, short, flat and mixed - each bone has its own purpose, but the function is the same: to serve as a strong frame for the body. The worst thing that the skeleton can get sick with is “osteogenesis imperfecta” (crystal disease).
What contributes to the strengthening of bone tissue?
The structure of a person's bones changes throughout his life. After birth, it increases, reaching a peak by 25-30 years. From 30 to 45 years, bone density practically does not change, and after 45 years, regardless of whether a person is sick or healthy, a natural physiological process of rarefaction of the bone structure begins.
To keep bone density from decreasing, you should not only exercise exercise, but also include foods high in calcium in the diet. The daily intake of calcium for an adult is 1200 milligrams. Most of all it is in cottage cheese, cheese, whole milk, fermented milk products. If calcium is not supplied enough, the body begins to take it from the bones.
Some numbers
Where the excuse “I have a wide bone” came from is hard to say. But you can publish text about how much the skeleton weighs and how much its weight can vary from person to person.
A dry, fat-free and dehydrated human skeleton (that is, what will remain of us in this world) weighs on average only about 4 kg for men and about 2.8 kg for women. In percentage terms, the skeleton occupies approximately 6-7% of the body weight in an adult.
Bone density makes adjustments
We all know from the course of the school curriculum what density is - and so, with the same volumes, the skeletons of different people of a person can have slightly different weights, i.e. Some people will have thicker bones, some less. How big a difference can there be and what does it depend on?
Bone mineral density can change with age (including due to osteoporosis), with concomitant diseases, nutrition (decrease with malnutrition, and vice versa - with adequate nutrition). Also, bone density depends on weight loss or weight gain: scientists have calculated that with the loss of each 1 kg of fat in the body, an average of about 16.5 g of minerals is lost in the bones, in fact, when gaining the same 1 kg of fat, about the same amount is restored by background of the existing training volume.
Here are typical normal values for bone density, including data for athletes and athletes who develop bone tissue adaptation to impact loading, and an approximate calculation of the difference in grams between these values, so that you can clearly understand what is the general value for total bone / skeletal weight, has bone density.
Average values for bone mass density in adults are in the region of 1.0 – 1.2 g/cm2. Roughly speaking, this can be translated as +/-10% in different people depending on the factor. These values vary by age, gender, race, level, and type. physical activity, nutritional status, the state of the body, the presence of diseases, etc.
By the way, even growth hormone does not make significant adjustments to bone density. Scientists conducted a controlled 15-year study in which growth hormone injections were given to more than 100 people. Bottom line: over 15 years, the average increase in bone mass was only 14 grams.
Wide but light
In the end, what we have: that the total mass of human bones, excluding fat and liquid filling, is something around 4-5 kg in adult men and 2-3 kg in adult women.
Within these same boundaries, the mass may fluctuate, depending on the density of the bone mass, but again, this difference will not be so significant, in any case - up to 1 kg, depending on the density of the bone mass. By and large, talk about “broad bone”, “powerful skeleton”, which drastically affect the overall weight of a person’s body, “fat power” and genetic predisposition to increased weight gain, in fact, is not quite comparable with the real state of things.
Yes, the difference in height and build certainly gives its shifts in various indicators of bone mass from person to person, but these indicators do not differ by 5-10 kilograms, but average no more than 2-3 kg from person to person.
Netizens responses
Guest
This means that the bones are denser than those of other dead-boned people, but a heavy bone has one or even two minuses, firstly, a heavy bone makes a person fat, and secondly, and for a girl, this is especially important, with a heavy bone, a person walks with a limp, barely rearranging legs, and non-plastic.
Anna
What nonsense, a heavy bone does not at all mean that a person is overweight, he can be thin, it’s just that the structure of the skeleton is not athletic and non-plastic, a person cannot “lift his leg”, junk is hard for him, and he walks with a heavy gait.
Svetlana
It's the 21st century, and people still don't know such elementary things! Bones weigh the same for everyone: 7 kg for women, 10 kg for men. If the bones, as they say, were “heavy” not in words, a person simply would not be able to fully move, the joints could not absorb all movements. The expression itself refers to people of dense physique. By the way, there were no full ones in Buchenwald.
Pie
“The human skeleton consists of about 206 bones, which in a healthy person make up about 17.5% of body weight. Muscles account for 43%, internal organs ≈ 19%, skin and subcutaneous fat≈ 17.8%, brain ≈ 2.2%. These data are averaged and vary from person to person.
Uninvited Guest
It's like mine. With a height of 49 kg, I look large. Not complete, but some kind of wide. Even when she weighed 47, she was still far from thin in appearance. For all my attempts to achieve elegance, I get a zero result, because even with a small weight there is no elegance at all. In general, a disgusting physique, especially with short stature.
This is true. it all depends on the number of partitions in the spongy bones, the thickness of the bone wall, the content of calcium and other trace elements. Men have heavier bones than women.
GooD HaSH
Heavy bones simply have more weight. And when the bones are heavy, this is very good, because fractures and all sorts of cracks happen several times less often than in people with light bones. By the way, heavy bones can be not only in men, but also in women.
Nathilty
In everyday life, this often means the constitution of the skeletal structure, the bone tissue itself is porous and calcium and other minerals should normally accumulate in these pores, and due to multiple pregnancies, prolonged periods, when taking medicines(diuretic, antihistamines, etc.), due to age-related changes, calcium is washed out, the so-called osteoporosis
All answers are generally correct, I'll just add, in women, bone thickness can be determined by measuring the wrist, unless you are severely obese, of course. Less than 16-17 bones are light, more heavy.
Bones cannot be heavy or light. Most likely, this refers to the type of physique. There are only three of them - mesomorphic - the so-called average build, people of this type are usually of medium height, they have moderately developed muscles, etc.; the brachymorph type suggests a wide skeleton, that is, the bones of this type are not heavier, but wider than those of other types. People of this type usually have wide hands, they have large feet, broad shoulders. And the last type is dolichomorphic. These are the elves. They have a fragile physique, usually long thin fingers, narrow chest. Determining your body type is easy - just measure your wrist. If you get a figure less than 15 cm for a woman, then you narrow bone, if from 15 to 17 cm - you have an average physique, if the size is more than 17 cm, then you have wide bones.
Olga
a heavy bone is a heavy bone. Wide bone can be light, narrow bone can be heavy. I have a wide and heavy one. As a child, when I was skinny as a bicycle, I always weighed more than my peers, of similar height and build. From there I know that my bone is heavy 🙂
How many times have we blamed the broad bone for not being able to lose weight. How many times have we blamed heredity, and not the lack of sports and willpower available extra pounds. We decided to find out whether all these accusations have legal grounds or a wide bone - this is just another excuse.
Yuri Glazkov
Yuri Glazkov, PhD, orthopedist-traumatologist, Central Clinical Hospital No. 2 named after A.I. N. A. Semashko, member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS):
In different people, the bones can really have b O greater or lesser thickness. This is determined by the type of constitution. There are three such types:
Asthenic (hyposthenic) - when a person has a thin bone;
Normosthenic - bone of medium thickness;
Hypersthenic - thick bone.
People with an asthenic body type have narrow shoulders, thin wrists, and an acute intercostal angle. Hypersthenics have broad shoulders, large body circumferences in different places, including on the limbs, an obtuse intercostal angle.What type of constitution you have is determined by heredity. However, not only genetics decide how wide your bones will be - it also depends on lifestyle. If a person works hard physically, especially since childhood, he is more likely to increase muscle mass and bone width. To understand what kind of bone a person has, it is enough to make several measurements. The easiest way to determine the type of constitution is by the wrist. Measure its circumference with a measuring tape:
Asthenic - up to 17.5 cm in men, up to 15 cm in women;
Normostenik - 17.5-20 cm in men, 15-17 cm in women;
Hypersthenic - above 20 cm in men, more than 17 cm in women.
How bone thickness affects weight loss
If by weight loss we mean a decrease in fat, and not total mass body, then no wide bone can interfere with this process. However, the hypersthenic type of constitution can distort the results of measurements of body mass index (BMI) - an indicator that is used to diagnose obesity. It is calculated using the following formula:BMI = weight (kg) / height squared (m).If, after calculations, more than 25 kg / m 2 is obtained, this indicates overweight, and if 30 kg / m 2 - about obesity of the first degree. But it may also be that in reality a person does not have any obesity - he simply has a wide bone. Therefore, you need to evaluate the state of your figure not only by calculating weight or body mass index, but also simply by looking in the mirror.
At the same time, people have every right to write off a lot of weight on a wide bone. Indeed, bones are much heavier than fat. Bone density is 2-2.5 kg per liter, depending on the degree of mineralization. The density of adipose tissue is only 920 g/l. Therefore, a person with a hypersthenic physique with a normal figure can weigh more than an asthenic with first degree obesity. But if a person talks about a large bone at a time when he has a clearly visible barrel-shaped stomach, obviously this is nothing more than an excuse for his tendency to overeat.
Asthenic body type . Women of this constitution are characterized by general thinness, long and thin neck, narrow shoulders, flat and narrow chest, elongated thin limbs, long face and thin nose. Growth is often above average. Muscles in such women are poorly developed. Therefore, they lack strength and endurance. But the representatives of this group are energetic, light and elegant, have a small weight. Of the obvious advantages of an asthenic physique, it is worth mentioning the minimum tendency to be overweight. When choosing sports disciplines, it is better to give preference to those that are aimed at developing the missing skills: strength and endurance. These include swimming, aerobics, dancing. To correctly classify your physique as a thin-boned type, measure the circumference of your wrist. In the group under consideration, it should be less than 16 cm.
Normosthenic body type . In women of this constitution, the main body sizes are proportional. Such ladies often have slender legs, slim waist and, in general, a harmonious figure. Growth is usually average. Such people are naturally well-coordinated, sharp and fast. Of the sports disciplines, game types (volleyball, basketball, etc.), as well as tennis, water aerobics, are best suited. Wrist circumference should be between 16 and 18.5 cm.
Hypersthenic body type . Women of this constitution have heavy and wide bones, voluminous shoulders, a wide and short chest, and slightly shortened limbs (as a rule). Growth is often below average. By nature, such ladies have strength and endurance, but are deprived of flexibility and grace. Therefore, the recommended sports disciplines are as follows: yoga, callanetics, martial arts and so on. In addition, the disadvantages of the hypersthenic body type include a low metabolic rate, which implies an increased tendency to be overweight. The circumference of the wrist with a broad-boned physique is more than 18.5 cm.
Growth rate and leg length
You can also determine your body type based on the height and length of the legs. For a normal-boned and wide-boned body build, the range between 166 and 170 cm is considered normal growth, while for the asthenic type it is within 168 - 172 cm. There are certain proportions between the height and length of a person's legs. Legs are considered short if their length is less than half the height.
The length of the legs is measured from the tubercle of the femur, located opposite hip joint, to the floor.
The ideal leg length should be within the following limits:
- asthenic type: legs are 2-4 cm longer than half the height
- normosthenic type: legs are 4-6 cm longer than half the height
- hypersthenic type: legs are 6-9 cm longer than half the height
Do not be discouraged if your performance does not match the ideal. Create visibility desired length legs can be with the help of heels. By the way, this is one way to find the perfect heel height. Just count how many cm you do not fit into the standards and wear heels of just that height.
Whiteles and the Pinier Index
Whiteles(from English vitels vital organs) - dimensions female figure- height, leg length, bust, waist, hips
Normal whites for young women:
body typeasthenicNormosthenicHypersthenicCircle chest 84 - 86 cm1/2 height + 2-5cm1/2 height + 8-10cmBreast volumeChest circumference + 4-6 cmChest circumference + 8-10 cmWaist circumference60 - 64 cmHeight - 105 cm70 - 76 cmHip circumferenceWaist circumference + 30cmWaist circumference + 30cmWaist circumference + 28cmFor a more objective assessment, you can also use the indicators of the Pignet index.
Pinier index = standing height (cm) - (body weight (kg) + chest circumference (cm))
With indicators less than 10 - a strong (dense) physique; 10-25 - normal; 26-35 - weak; more than 35 - very weak.
Weight norm
Certainly, excess weight does not adorn any woman. Beauty is health, harmony, smartness. It is these external data that men consider ideal on a subconscious level. In addition, fullness leads to premature aging of the whole organism. That is why it is very important to know the limits of your normal weight. But what do they depend on? Is it just height and age? Not only. To correctly determine the norm of weight, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of your body: the general structure of the body (type of constitution), shoulder width, chest features, etc.
However, we must not forget that being overweight is not always a sign of excess body fat. Adipose tissue It is an integral part of any living organism. And she is vital to him. Under normal conditions, the amount of fat in men is 1/20, and in women 1/16 of body weight. And about 75% of all fat is located directly under the skin. A small amount of fat under the skin protects against bruises and hypothermia. Certain minimum body fat internal organs keeps them in the right place, protects them from excessive mobility, injuries and concussions. In addition, fat is energy that can be used if needed.
On our site there are several ways to calculate the norm of weight, based on the characteristics of the type of physique.
Using the formula below, you can find out your weight per 1 centimeter of height:
Weight per 1 cm of height = body weight (grams) / height (centimeters)
Knowing your body type, multiply the coefficient by your height, and you will get your normal weight.
The weight limit for women by a certain age can be calculated from the table below:
Well, let's, ladies, take out a centimeter and measure your wrist from bone to bone ... I have exactly 18, but how many do you have?
