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Exercising for Different Body Types, New England Vampire Panic, Non-Vertical List Benefits, and Constellations on Mars

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how your body type affects the way you should exercise; the New England Vampire Panic; what our constellations would look like if we saw them from Mars; and the benefits of writing a better, non-vertical list to organize your thoughts.

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.6

I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about whether your body type affects the way you should exercise,

0:11.2

the New England vampire panic, and how to write a better list to organize your thoughts.

0:16.6

We'll also answer a listener question about what our constellations would look like if we saw

0:20.4

them from Mars.

0:21.4

Lips it us have some curiosity.

0:23.0

If you've ever fallen down the internet rabbit hole of fitness tips,

0:26.0

you've probably heard of the three body types or somata types.

0:30.0

You might have read that one routine might work for an ectomorph, but you should try a different routine if you're an endomorph.

0:37.0

But science says when it comes to exercise, your body type might not really matter.

0:41.0

This story is my fault. It is and I love that because we were talking about

0:46.6

fitness. We weren't talking about work at all and you were just like oh yeah you know because I'm an ectomorph so I I'm doing this workout for ectomorphs and I was like,

0:54.8

really? And then you yelled at me.

0:57.2

I didn't yell at you. You sastized me. You threw things.

1:01.0

Coney, that's not science.

1:03.7

Well, actually, I didn't know.

1:05.2

I was, I wasn't sure, but I, it sounded like personality types to me.

1:09.6

It sounded like, it sounded too good to be true and was it I think it was you sure

1:16.1

found out I'm glad you did this this satisfied my curiosity and hopefully will

1:21.3

satisfy many other people's curiosity.

1:24.0

The three human body types we're talking about came from a psychologist and doctor named

1:28.0

William Herbert Sheldon in the 1940s.

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