However, one thing that has become increasingly clear since Sheldon’s original classifications were established is that not everyone fits neatly into one body category or the other. Indeed, some extremely well-known and highly successful amateur and professional competition bodybuilders have exhibited characteristics of more than one classification.
For example, the very first Mr. Olympia Larry Scott was not a particularly metamorphic individual, being noticeably skinny (ectomorphic) before he started training to be a bodybuilder. However, by the time he won Mr. Olympia, there is no way that you could suggest that he was skinny, so his body had the ability to ‘bulk up’. Larry Scott was an ecto-mesomorph from the beginning, someone who did not fit nicely into one of the Sheldon classifications.
At the other end of the scale, other well-known professional bodybuilders like Danny Padilla were fairly heavily built to start with, and had no problems whatsoever putting on the bulk that they needed to be successful bodybuilders.
However, he is believed to have had problems getting lean enough to win competitions, so is forced to follow an extremely rigid diet in order to achieve what he eventually went on to achieve in professional bodybuilding.
In this situation, you could say these individuals were endo-mesomorphs rather than being classic mesomorphs of the type who generally make the best or most natural bodybuilders.
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