Hello everybody and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio. You're here with me Tom the usual

co-host and the Academy manager over at the BTN Academy and today I wanted to talk to you

a little bit about body typing because this is actually a topic that's come up again recently.

I don't know if there's some fitness person that's started to market a body typing style diet or something,

but for whatever reason it's something that keeps coming across my desk and I think this is a topic that's a bit more interested than some people give it credit.

So body typing or smart or typing was a it's a method of categorizing people that was created in the

40s by a psychologist called William Herbert Sheldon now this guy was part of

the movement associated with the eugenics.

Those of you who are aware of what eugenics is,

it's basically the thing that the Nazis were using

to try and create like the best race of people or whatever the hell it was they were doing.

It's generally agreed that eugenics is not a good thing.

It's a means of categorizing people as better or less good, which most people are morally averse to nowadays,

thankfully. But what he was trying to do was he was trying to use the

structure of a human body to categorize people psychologically so that he could predict whether they were going to be a criminal or not.

And this is based on his idea that people with a certain body type were more prone naturally to criminality. So you can probably tell

straight away that it's a complete pseudoscience. That's not a thing, that's not how

that works. But I think this idea is a little bit more complicated than just dismissing it on that basis because actually

There may be something to it just in a completely different area

So the three body types that were initially, like thought of, were the types of echomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph.

And echomorph was classed as someone who is quite tall, skinny, lanky, that sort of spaghetti type body.

An endomof was someone who is generally would be considered to be overweight and a mesomorph

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