Kibbe Width: How to interpret the Kibbe width parameter?
If you don't know if your shoulders are wide, or if you have a wide hip or waist. And this is making it very difficult for you to know what your Kibbe body type is, so this article will help you a lot because I share my vision of this measure.
I've read a lot of questions about the Kibbe width issue. Because the more masculine body types with yang features are wider on top. But many people wonder how width plays a role in determining Kibbe body type.
I wanted to give my opinion and contribution of my interpretation of the Kibbe theory about the width parameter that is the reasoning I use for my Kibbe measurement calculator.
In the end, the width parameter only intervenes in the area of the shoulders, hips and waist to differentiate some Kibbe body types from others. But it cannot be said that a person is wide at the shoulders, waist or hip, if it is not compared with another part of the body.
You are broad in the shoulders if you draw a line from your armpit to your hip and see that your hip is smaller than that line you have drawn. Because if you look at the width from off the shoulder, everyone has shoulders that are wider than the hips. therefore, you compare the shoulders with the hips to know if you have broad shoulders.
But if your hip is on the outside, when you draw that imaginary line that passes straight from your armpit towards the wax. Well, then you'll be wide at the hips.
And then the waist can also be known if it is wide compared to the hip. You can measure the width of your waist just in front and compare it with the measurement of the width of the wax (just measuring in front too). If you subtract the measurements and you see that you are barely 12 centimeters or less, you can already see that your hips and waist are similar in width, which makes you wide in the waist.
As you can see, you can never tell a person is wide or narrow if you don't compare it to any other measurement. In the end, doing this like this greatly simplifies the task of discovering your Kibbe body type.
If you have more questions about the Kibbe body system, I recommend you read my article about the most common Kibbe questions that you will find here.
