Yeah. 5-10, 170 puts me at 24.5, with 25 being the low end of overweight. When they've taken data directly from an annual checkup - my weight at the doctor's office with clothes on, and maybe not first thing in the AM, will add a few lbs and push me over. One year I printed out the thing and was showing it to some people around the office, some who were definitely overweight and were looking at it like "WTF do I have to do?"
Dave
Super B****
OK, you've raised my curiosity. If you don't mind me asking, what does it take to win a bike? How much exercise X how many weeks?
OK, you've raised my curiosity.
If you don't mind me asking, what does it take to win a bike? How much exercise X how many weeks?
It's not QUITE like that -- well, I mean, it can be, if you accumulate enough points to redeem them for a bike. I think I do have enough points for that, but I wouldn't use them on a bike. I'm waiting for the points mall to get the 630, because I don't NEED a new Garmin, but I wouldn't say no if I didn't have to pay cash for it. You earn these points in different ways... workouts count, as does participation in athletic events, preventive care (like a dental exam or the flu shot or whatever), things like that. And apparently everyone is automatically entered into a monthly jackpot drawing. That's what I won.
chasing the impossible
because i never shut up ... i blog
Runs4Sanity
Eh, I didn't get up this morning.
I'll probably take Dorian for a hike at John James Audubon State Park after school, check out the scenery and try to pick the best spots for a family photo session I've got coming up next week.
*Do It For Yourself, Do It Because They Said It Was Impossible, Do It Because They Said You Were Incapable*
PRs
5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
We're in the same group. My BMI has been at 25 for years. I have thus been considered overweight for a like amount of time. During my weightlifting years, it was at 26 or 27 and at 205 lbs, I was considered obese according to the chart ffs.
There was a period in 2013 where I got it under 25 while trying to find the ideal racing weight. My friends thought I was smoking crack, my kids thought I was dying and I just really grew weary of all of the unfiltered comments and questions regarding my health and weight. It was pretty much awful. Anyway, I ate and drank my way up from 170 to 180 and did not feel as though it was a detriment on the race course.
I do not weigh myself unless I am training for something so I have no idea where I'm at but I am guessing it's well north of 180. BLOOF!
It's illegal to ride on sidewalks here. Daylight and a street that isn't crowded... sounds good. (I just looked at that video again -- I see why you think it was so horrible. Two of those cars weren't going anywhere, they were just double-parked, it's not like I'm weaving in between moving traffic!)
Oh, okay. Phew!
And if you inadvertently find yourself on a downhill, those things sticking up on either side of the handlebar are brakes.
delicate flower
Bunch of BMI tubbos up in here.
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Oh, okay. Phew! And if you inadvertently find yourself on a downhill, those things sticking up on either side of the handlebar are brakes.
Unless, of course, I installed the handlebars upside down. (True story: I needed a belt this morning. I hate belts and I never wear them. I have no idea which way I'm "supposed" to thread the belt through the loops. But it's doing its job, so...)
Also, BMI is stupid and I wish it would just go away.
I'm at the higher end of normal for BMI. DH cut his finger a few years ago. Urgent care weighed him in his jacket, work boots, etc. We had also gone to an Indian buffet for lunch. His BMI was just overweight. I was handed several print outs regarding healthy weight. Guess they give them to the wife for nagging purposes. I didn't.
Former Bad Ass
It is also down here, yet we do it because otherwise we die.
And now my PC is loading this site. Yay.
Damaris
At my smallest (and a size 2-4), I was still in the overweight BMI. BMI is bullshit, IMO.
hmm I could get pretty fat and still be a normal bmi.. actually I can be pretty fat and be in the middle of the normal range
3 x (1.65 km w/1 min) + 3 x (~200m w/back to starting point)
Go for it!
Until 5 days ago, I was convinced I had to lose some weight if I wanted to make any kind of sizeable dent in my marathon PR. So glad I disproved that shiz.
Freakin Baboon, 1 inch taller than me and 20 lb lighter. I have no hope.
Apparently it would take me around 160 to be overweight — do you know how HUGE I would be?!
Oh hey, I’m going to be in your neck of the woods in a couple of weeks! 🤞🏻 Maybe I will die.