olyclimber Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 interesting http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/fit.nation/obesity.map/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Per the BMI table, at 5'10", I am currently 1-2 pounds shy of falling into the overweight category. Now I have a goal. Becoming overweight will be a piece of cake, but making it into the obese column may be beyond my capabilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 nermal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Better buy us some of that [euphoric self-congratulation]Universal Health Care[/] before it's too late for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 at just over 5'10 and 175, I'm right on the border. Woo-hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerJ Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Most athletic types read high on BMI scales. I read once where Michael Jordan's BMI puts him in Overweight. -r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hmm. according to Jay's scale I'm at a BMI of 28 but my scale at home gives a read out of 19. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fig8 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Most athletic types read high on BMI scales. I read once where Michael Jordan's BMI puts him in Overweight. -r No shit. Muscle is denser than fat, and some people are just bigger boned. The BMI is for pussies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Per the BMI table, at 5'10", I am currently 1-2 pounds shy of falling into the overweight category. Now I have a goal. Becoming overweight will be a piece of cake, but making it into the obese column may be beyond my capabilities. You can do it. So many Americans have. We're rooting for you. Go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I like this one better: BMI Linky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Wow. I think that is the only time I fall into a catagory of "Normal". Boring. And I really think the chart is unfair. There is no catagory for "Chubby" or "Plump". Lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 My doc says I'm 10 pounds overweight, but I'm healthy enough that it doesn't matter. Resting heart rate 38, etc. He does say though, that if I lost 10 pounds, it would take almost 10 minutes off my marathon time. He knows how to motivate. Forget about 'live longer' and all that crap... 'You'll increase your marathon time by about 10 minutes!' He's tricky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 My doc also told me to go on a diet, hence my current dilemma. Your resting heart rate is 38? Are you sure your heart is actually there? Mine is around 60, and my doc said that was on the boarderline of being too low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 That's when I first wake up. Daytime it's around 58. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 are you able to maintain a morning erection with that low of a heartrate? I assume those two things are related, so I can't help but be curious. You don't have to answer, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 There's something called 'stroke volume' that I am just dying to tie in here just for the name... (Here's the boring part) Your heart pumps so much blood per minute. You exercise more, your heat ventricles get bigger and stronger and pump more per beat (I just wanna say that again... pump more per beat...), so your heart doesn't need to pump so fast to circulate the same amout of blood per minute, so it slows down. Same amount of blood is circulated, stonger, healthier heart with bigger ventricles, pumping more per beat... More efficient for keeping that morning wd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Ah, interesting. I thought there was a "floor" level that you really didn't want to go beneath. I thought it was somewhere in the 50's. My doc told me my heart is low b/c I was a weightlifter for so many years and that specific activity really enlarges the ventricle thingys. Cool how the body adjusts to the demands we put on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 26.5 I is teh fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underworld Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 20.5 this coffee cake kicks ass!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 26.5 I is teh fat. I'd do you anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Ah, interesting. I thought there was a "floor" level that you really didn't want to go beneath. I thought it was somewhere in the 50's. My doc told me my heart is low b/c I was a weightlifter for so many years and that specific activity really enlarges the ventricle thingys. Cool how the body adjusts to the demands we put on it. It used to be thought by doctors that athletes had bad hearts from all that exercise, that their hearts were 'sick and unhealthy'. Doctors actually believed this up until the 1950s. It was in the 1960s that physicians started studying the effects of running and exercise on the heart, and then the running boom happened in the 70's. (Remember 'The Complete Book of Running'?) There's an article about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I know, I am an exersice geek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I do remember the complete book of ruining. Didn't the dude on the cover wear something horribly orange? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizard_brain Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hey, that was the 70s! But I bet he had a high stroke volume... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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