|   So much for cycling as a scrawny guy's sport. | cory
Feb 19, 2003 5:28 PM | | Did you catch the results of the poll? 25 percent of us between 180-200, 21 percent between 165-180 and 18 percent over 200 pounds? How come all the people I have to climb with are little ferret-bodies? |
| re: So much for cycling as a scrawny guy's sport. | nn23
Feb 19, 2003 6:07 PM | | Those who took the poll were obviously not riding :) |
| Because all the skinny guys are out riding now | PaulCL
Feb 20, 2003 6:40 AM | | Instead of typing posts on this forum.
Count me into the 25% group. 'nough said. |
| you need to include musculature and height as well | ColnagoFE
Feb 20, 2003 8:25 AM | | At 6'2" and 195 with some upper body musculature I'm not fat (working on losing another 10 from my gut though to be at my ideal weight), but if I was 5' and no muscle at the same weight that would be a different story. BMI is a joke. It assumes that at the same height we all have the same musculature and puts me at a fairly overweight number. |
| According to insurance tables, I'm overweight | PaulCL
Feb 21, 2003 7:50 AM | | I'm 6'1" and 190lbs. You're right: this doesn't take into account musculature. I wear a size 43 suitcoat with 34" waist pants. I regularly work out on weights - upper and lower body. I'm not fat but on many measurements, I'm at least 20 pounds overweight !! My BMI is into the "fatty" range too. Stupid, useless number.
Maybe I should stop the bench pressing, stop the flies, go on a crash diet, get real skinny so I can fly up those hills. I guess as a cyclist, my ability to do bench press reps of my weight isn't much of an advantage.
OK, OK....I want to lose 10 lbs around my middle too. |
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