1. KEY WORDS ECTOMORPH ENDOMORPH MESOMORPH
ADD LITTLE FAT
KEY WORDS
STRUGGLE LOSING WEIGHT
DELICATE BUILD
ECTOMORPH
WIDE SHOULDERS AND NARROW HIPS
LARGE AND
ROUNDED
MUSCULAR ATHLETIC BUILD
ENDOMORPH
NARROW SHOULDERS AND NARROW HIPS
ENDURANCE EVENTS
CAN GAIN
MUSCLE
NOT SUITED TO SPEED OR FLEXIBILITY SPORTS
MESOMORPH
BUILT FOR SPEED, STRENGTH, POWER
LIGHTLY MUSCLED
WIDE HIPS AND NARROW SHOULDERS
TALL AND THIN
GAIN MUSCLE
EASILY
REMEMBER SOMATOTYPES ARE EXTREME. PEOPLE RARELY FALL IN TO ONE BODY TYPE

2. What somatotype is a footballer?
Can you explain which components of fitness they have higher and lower levels of? Making links to somatotypes.
What physical attributes make them the specific somatotype?
Why do these physical attributes make them well suited to football?

3. What somatotype is a marathon runner?
Can you explain which components of fitness they have higher and lower levels of? Making links to somatotypes.
What physical attributes make them the specific somatotype?
Why do these physical attributes make them well suited to marathon running?

4. What somatotype is a sumo wrestler?
Can you explain which components of fitness they have higher and lower levels of? Making links to somatotypes.
What physical attributes make them the specific somatotype?
Why do these physical attributes make them well suited to football?

5. Within one sport, what different somatotypes can you identify?
Selecting a specific sport which has all three somatotypes. Discuss how their bodies would adapt over a career of training from 15 years to 25 years.
What physical attributes makes them suited to that position/discipline?
The categories for somatotypes are extreme, Which sports people fall in to one category and which have attributes from more than one?