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mho
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:15 pm    Post subject: BMI Index Reply with quote

I'm 5ft 7, weigh 11st 3.
BMI is 23/24.

According to the NHS I'm at the upper end of what is acceptable.
I'm carrying a bit round the middle (well I'm 45) compare to when I was a youngster. However by no stretch of the imagination am I overweight
in a layman's eyes.

So is this BMI really all it's cracked up to be?

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its at best a guide, innit? It needs to be something that the average person can understand, just like the 5-a-day fruit thing.

20.3 - avit.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Using BMI, Sir Chris is morbidly obese, according to urban legend.

The fitter and more muscular you are, the worse it is.

Body fat index is a little better.

Latest newspaper bolleaux (Times today) is that the oldest of all -- simple waist measurement -- is the best indicator.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine was 25.9 last time i got weighed.

Asked the nurse "do i look overweight" and she couldn't answer.

I think a lot of cyclists have bigger legs than the rest of the population and this skews it a bit.

i've got decent muscle definition and you can probably count all of my ribs quite easily!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

age 44 BMI 20.7 result Very Happy
Although I'm pretty sure it's all Evil or Very Mad.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:41 pm    Post subject: Re: BMI Index Reply with quote

mho wrote:
I'm 5ft 7, weigh 11st 3.
BMI is 23/24.

According to the NHS I'm at the upper end of what is acceptable.
I'm carrying a bit round the middle (well I'm 45) compare to when I was a youngster. However by no stretch of the imagination am I overweight
in a layman's eyes.

So is this BMI really all it's cracked up to be?

DIUCBA


Pile o'shyte. My doctor always gets me to be weighed and gets upset because my weight fluctuates... Here's the deal - I ride a lot in Summer and not so much in winter - your the Dr. do the Physics!! For me to be slap bang in the middle of my BMI i need to weigh something like 11stone. I haven't been eleven since I was 17/18.....
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:48 pm    Post subject: Re: BMI Index Reply with quote

Rich Hill wrote:
Pile o'shyte. My doctor always gets me to be weighed and gets upset because my weight fluctuates... Here's the deal - I ride a lot in Summer and not so much in winter - your the Dr. do the Physics!! For me to be slap bang in the middle of my BMI i need to weigh something like 11stone. I haven't been eleven since I was 17/18.....


I'm in a similar position.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm just fat.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:12 am    Post subject: Re: BMI Index Reply with quote

Rich Hill wrote:
mho wrote:
I'm 5ft 7, weigh 11st 3.
BMI is 23/24.

According to the NHS I'm at the upper end of what is acceptable.
I'm carrying a bit round the middle (well I'm 45) compare to when I was a youngster. However by no stretch of the imagination am I overweight
in a layman's eyes.

So is this BMI really all it's cracked up to be?

DIUCBA


Pile o'shyte. My doctor always gets me to be weighed and gets upset because my weight fluctuates... Here's the deal - I ride a lot in Summer and not so much in winter - your the Dr. do the Physics!! For me to be slap bang in the middle of my BMI i need to weigh something like 11stone. I haven't been eleven since I was 17/18.....


Questions:

1. Why would a medical doctor "do" physics?
2. Why don't you eat less in the winter when you is not riding your bike?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chrissylaa wrote:
Mine was 25.9 last time i got weighed.

Asked the nurse "do i look overweight" and she couldn't answer.

I think a lot of cyclists have bigger legs than the rest of the population and this skews it a bit.

i've got decent muscle definition and you can probably count all of my ribs quite easily!!!

I've always understood that muscle weighs a lot more than fat. So well trained bodies could look good and yet register a high BMI. I now weigh exactly the same as in my racing days yet I cannot put on and button up one of my suit jackets from the 1980's, let alone the 1960's.
Height now 5'-8", weight 10st 4 lbs, actual waist 35". I guess that I now have a 'low muscle mass'. Laughing
I'm the 'skinny one' 2nd left, Helyett, behind John Woodburn, with Dennis Tarr to right. From Isle of Man Pro Race, 1962.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

QUALLA photo - looking buff.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great picture Dave what a star
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great legs. Not surprised you left the baby VRers behind Smile on the Pink weekend.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

legro wrote:
great picture Dave what a star

Gosh Embarassed comments to die for, guys and dolls, thankyou.
Truly NOT a star, but I put the effort in and was 'there' at some great moments which, looking back, is far better than having just read about it. I don't regret 'having a go'.
I found that Helyett bike 'interesting'. Was VERY disappointed when I was first given it. With 31" inside leg length, I'd generally ridden a 22" (54cm) or 22.5" frame and this one was probably a 56cm. The headtube is quite long, in the photo, but, the 'ride and handling' was really great. Best I ever had, in those days. It was a standard Helyett team bike, which meant it had the same kit as Anquetil though there were stories that those guys had personally built frames, sprayed in team colours, but that would have probably been the only difference. How different things are today!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Roy Gardiner wrote:
The oldest of all -- simple waist measurement -- is the best indicator.

The British Heart Foundation share that view.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

legro wrote:
great picture Dave what a star

What Legro said. Cool
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave Griffiths wrote:
I'm the 'skinny one' 2nd left, Helyett, behind John Woodburn, with Dennis Tarr to right. From Isle of Man Pro Race, 1962.
Yeah but who's the geezer behind Mr Tarr with the TOP wooly on?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah but who's the geezer behind Mr Tarr with the TOP wooly on?

Funny that ...... but I don't recall his name Wink
He was skipping about, handing Dennis a bottle, guess he was a Condor Man!
Another guy collecting empties.
Which other riders can you spot and name?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. The guy in the wooly jumper has no legs. Fact.
2. The guy in front of him is the shortest man in the world.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tucker wrote:
1. The guy in the wooly jumper has no legs. Fact.
2. The guy in front of him is the shortest man in the world.
also looks like a set up for Viz, "up the ärse" corner
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