Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: johnb838

I'm 5'10" and weight 285 pounds. I am over weight, but not obese. I ride my bike 14 miles a day to work usually 3-4 times a week, I lift weights (bench 300) and am looking to do a triathelon this year. I am also 50 years old. The BMI is stupid.


4 posted on 03/03/2005 1:12:35 PM PST by irishtenor (If stupidity were painful, the Democrats would NEED paid health care...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: irishtenor

I am in the same boat. I am obese according to the index. 10lbs will be gone for summer but I am not obese.
I meet a bunch of people from Italy visiting boston. The men's wrist were so tiny I thought I would break them if I shook hands.
I think it is another silly European system like the metric system that does not translate to real Americans.
How much is a mililiter of milk anyways?


10 posted on 03/03/2005 1:18:39 PM PST by Holicheese (This is Hockey East)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: irishtenor
I'm 5'10" and weight 285 pounds. I am over weight, but not obese.

When I was 27, I was 6-6 and 213 pounds. Hardly had any fat on me. And the BMI said I was borderline overweight. The BMI makes no attempt to factor in muscularity. A far better measurement is comparing one's weight to one's displacement in a water tank.

13 posted on 03/03/2005 1:20:54 PM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: irishtenor

Do you actually sing tenor?


22 posted on 03/03/2005 2:03:37 PM PST by RipSawyer ("Embed" Michael Moore with the 82nd airborne.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson