The blue line a golden section of the white line defines the distance from the head to the finger tips. If youre holding a large portion of fat on your waist your measurements will not be ideal upon calculating them. The white line is the bodys height. The chest measurement is 1618 times the waist measurement there is even a workout routine targeting this ratio. The human body illustrates the golden section or divine proportion. Similarly howard vyse reported the great pyramid height 1482 metres 486 ft and half base 1164 metres 382 ft yielding 16189 for the ratio of slant height to half base again more accurate than the data variability.
So the meaning of this adonis golden ratio boils down to a sort of v shaped upper body. The golden ratio represented by the greek letter phi is widely used in art and architecture as well as body sculpting. Check out my guide here if youre looking to lose fat and get into that single digit body fat range. For reference a lot of the classic bodybuilders had leg measurements of around 27. The golden ratio is number that shows up all over the human body from the length of the arms and legs compared to the torso and it seems to define what proportions look best. That is most attractive.
The golden ratio for a womans body the mathematical ideal golden ratio number is 1618. You might consider this your ideal but for non bodybuilders you may want to go with a leaner and more proportionate measurement. Rectangle a rectangle is a woman whose body shape means having waist measurements that are less than 9 inches smaller than the hip or bust measurements. The actual number is approximately 1 to 1618. A narrow waist rising up to a broad chest and shoulders. Golden ratio female body women.
This does also apply to women. And its really easy to measure this and determine how close your body shape is to this mathematical and genetically driven ideal. So you are not particularly curvy your waist is not well defined and your weight is fairly distributed throughout the bodythis shape of the body is also called as the straight or ruler body. 06 1 waist measurement height x 0375 2 bust measurement waist measurement x 15 3 hip measurement. This proportion on the. The divine proportion in the body.
In men this is considered the most attractive ratio between waist and chest ie. Same as bust measurement. The ratio of these lengths is the golden ratio accurate to more digits than either of the original measurements. I recommend your body fat be no greater than 10 to accurately apply the golden ratio to your body. Well use the golden ratio building blocks developed on the life page again for each line segment.