oh, indeed... i have a large frame. i work out, and am fairly strong. i could be stronger in more rounded ways, but it's functional to what i like doing for the most part. i could stand to easily lose 30 lbs right now, but even at my most recent minimal weight, very trim, feeling nearly too skinny, i was at 199.
when i did gymnastics in college, i was 185 and super fit. i ran. i swam. i could hike all day. i could dance lift cute girls all day in the name of gymnastics :> i could walk on my hands (sigh). pushups until the cows came home. yar. also, pretty much ripped :)
went to my doctor for strep. they put me on a scale without my shoes, but with my typical loose baggy clothes on. < 190. measured my height. took my pulse (very low resting pulse rate, and still quite low). great blood pressure ranges.
he sat me down, and told me very seriously he was concerned about my weight, and said i should drop at least 20 lbs. i laughed. then i told him what i did at school for fitness. unicycling made my legs incredibly corded. best workout ever. as i was wearing shorts, i made a point of showing him.
this BMI stuff pretty much doesn't apply to people who are *fit* it seems.
i seem to recall that much of the actuarial data they have is based on civil war era soldiers. hungry, well exercised men. skinny but strong. great. nothing like most civilians, well, except the working class (which was a lot of them).
there's a tv show that reenacts a life style of 100+ years ago, pioneer valley? they take a regular family, and pretty much drop them in a cabin, and they get to live the life. so this regular guy, with 8+ hours of field work a day, eating pretty well, got all skinnied up. he thought he was sick or had parasites. eventually he got pretty damn taut, wirey, and a totally flat belly. he COULDN'T eat enough. heh. work work work.
last bit: a friend of mine "got away from it all", and went on walkabout in NZ for 3ish months, hiking with a backpack. always on the move. the change was dramatic. already somewhat fit and not in anyway fat, she lost 20+ lbs, and put on muscle to boot. very nice. nice enough, that i'm pondering doing just such a thing sometime before the decade is out. ponder ponder.
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Date: 2008-01-10 09:38 pm (UTC)when i did gymnastics in college, i was 185 and super fit. i ran. i swam. i could hike all day. i could dance lift cute girls all day in the name of gymnastics :> i could walk on my hands (sigh). pushups until the cows came home. yar. also, pretty much ripped :)
went to my doctor for strep. they put me on a scale without my shoes, but with my typical loose baggy clothes on. < 190. measured my height. took my pulse (very low resting pulse rate, and still quite low). great blood pressure ranges.
he sat me down, and told me very seriously he was concerned about my weight, and said i should drop at least 20 lbs. i laughed. then i told him what i did at school for fitness. unicycling made my legs incredibly corded. best workout ever. as i was wearing shorts, i made a point of showing him.
this BMI stuff pretty much doesn't apply to people who are *fit* it seems.
i seem to recall that much of the actuarial data they have is based on civil war era soldiers. hungry, well exercised men. skinny but strong. great. nothing like most civilians, well, except the working class (which was a lot of them).
there's a tv show that reenacts a life style of 100+ years ago, pioneer valley? they take a regular family, and pretty much drop them in a cabin, and they get to live the life. so this regular guy, with 8+ hours of field work a day, eating pretty well, got all skinnied up. he thought he was sick or had parasites. eventually he got pretty damn taut, wirey, and a totally flat belly. he COULDN'T eat enough. heh. work work work.
last bit: a friend of mine "got away from it all", and went on walkabout in NZ for 3ish months, hiking with a backpack. always on the move. the change was dramatic. already somewhat fit and not in anyway fat, she lost 20+ lbs, and put on muscle to boot. very nice. nice enough, that i'm pondering doing just such a thing sometime before the decade is out. ponder ponder.
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