Body Typology
I have a faint inkling of a theory that I’d like to test.
There seem to be some starkly different experiences about whether girth or length come harder. Personally girth is my struggle, and I’ve also had a lifelong inability to gain ANY weight at all, even during periods of intense weightlifting.
We don’t hear too much on this site about people’s more general physiology or physical health and I’d like to get some responses about people’s general body types along with reports about whether they are slow girth gainers or length gainers, neither, or both.
I have a feeling that others who struggle with girth will report much the same as me, and maybe if we get some data on this we can start looking at wider systemic approaches to directing our overall physiology in general towards gains of one type or another. I generally think that if we continue to expand the scope of our attention, we’ll keep this practice on a positive trajectory. Maybe we can help figure out wider approaches to other physiological needs we need to be attentive to and widen our lexicon about PE physiology. For instance, maybe data about metabolism or dietary problems etc can become more familiar and understood in our PE discussions.
If you would care to contribute, please list whether you think of your body type as more ectomorphic, mesomorphic, or endomorphic, and whether you’ve struggled more with girth, more with length, with both in about either measure, or with one or the other in different phases. Maybe some data about how long you’ve been PE’ing and what your gains have generally amounted to would help too so we have some perspective on what each of us consider slow or fast gains.
So, I’ll be first. I’ve been doing PE for about 7 years, I’ve struggled more with girth for sure, and I’m a perpetually slim ectomorph. My permanent gains in seven years have been about 2” in erect length and girth has fluxuated but amounts to maybe an average of 0.5” in that same time.