Broadening Shoulders?

[sniffablecow]

How can you tell if your shoulders have broadened? I can't really tell tbh. I look in the mirror, but I don't notice big changes. Is there anyway to tell that your gender build is starting to come out?

[ska8er]

As ur chest gets muscular ur hips get
narrow and ur shoulders widen.

[Bikini Boy]

Swimming is a great way to broaden your shoulders and keep yourself slim and in good shape. I've been swimming since I was about 5 or 6 and really like the way my body looks.

[Hermes]

As ur chest gets muscular ur hips get
narrow....

Note that your hips do not get narrower (in absolute size) because bone, once grown, does not shrink again.

What happens, though, is that in guys the pelvis only grows in proportion to the rest of the body and the bones supporting the shoulders grow disproportionally making the shoulders wider. In the girls the opposite happens - the shoulder stay in proportion and the pelvis becomes a lot wider.

In girls something called waist-hip ratio is used so you could do something similar, i.e. compare the ratio of the measurement around your hips (not your waist, but lower around the pelvic bone) to your shoulder width. I don't know what ratio you should expect but if you kept trackj over time you could see if it is changing.

Skeletal shoulder width is also not the only effect - there is a musle, the deltoid, that runs over the shoulder and the bigger this is the wider your shoulders will appear to be, hence Bikini boys comment - I assume swimming use this muscle and therefore builds it up.

[Glis25]

i never really payed attention to mine but they do change with the amount of muscle you have

[Blank_]

It's kind of like your height or penis growth, you won't really notice that it is happening because it is gradual. Then one day you'll just look in the mirror and realize how broad your shoulders have become! You'll probably be able to notice it later as puberty is finishing up

[scott2002]

How can you tell if your shoulders have broadened?

We had a wedding to go to last week and my mom was all upset cuz my one-and-only suit fit me fine before Christmas, and now "it's too tight in the shoulders". (I had to wear it anyway.) So, if you have a suit or sport coat, how does it fit compared to how it used to fit?