fat skiers?

This is a serious health issue in our country. Diabetes and premature heart disease are soaring right now - world wide - though USA is leading - naturally. In our country - men in normal BMI range are accused of being underweight, women under 200 pounds at end of pregnancy are considered thin, live expectancy is declining for the first time in American history.

Calculate your own BMI with this link:
www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/.../bmi_calculator.html

Here are some weight ranges for normal BMIs (men AND women) National Heart Lung and Blood Association 1998.
5'2" 105-135
5'4" 110-140
5'6" 115-150
5'8" 125-160
5'10" 130-170
6' 140-180
6'2" 145-190
6'4" 155-200

Remember, upper limits are for WELL-MUSCLED men and women. Researchers are probably coming out with even tighter recommendations for Asians in the near future.

Alisa

PS if you are having shortness of breath you might want to talk to consider your cardiac risk factors with your doctor and make sure you are not at risk for heart disease.

I'm 6'4" and 215-220" and most people describe me as thin and complain about struggling to keep up with me, so I don't know if I would take you recommended guidelines to heart.

At 6'2" and 215lbs I'm definitely overweight by the standards of some. But in order for me to get down to 190lbs, I have to diet in a manner that I feel is excessive and unsupportable. Might have a beach body at 190lbs, but I won't have the energy to go the beach.

Some Data: sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/VO2_max.htm

I can't remember what souce to cite, but don't think there is always a correlation between weight and fitness, even with extra pounds.

I used to be able to just exercise off any excess weight (I get called skinny by my mother in law) but at 180 / 6'0" I'm considered overweight by BMI (just). I can still run up hills relatively fast but its quite noticable compared to my normal 170. Adventure racing is a wonderful way to lose weight especially the multi day ones going for 5 days straight. Its a bit extreme but I find there are so many other ways to fit exercise into busy lifestyles, namely cardio but a rounded program helps. Bike to work, run at lunch not surf (web) etc etc. Of course I'd love to have 40 hrs a week spare to go touring and do 10K ft /day, that helps big time too but I have 2 hungry kids to feed and they won't be happy if I don't provide!

Anyway, do what you can and a wee bit more if you can. It all helps. I'vealso heard yogo is great for extending your physical lifetime but I'm a bad advocate there.

At 6'2" and 215lbs I'm definitely overweight by the standards of some. But in order for me to get down to 190lbs, I have to diet in a manner that I feel is excessive and unsupportable. Might have a beach body at 190lbs, but I won't have the energy to go the beach.

Some Data: sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/VO2_max.htm

I can't remember what souce to cite, but don't think there is always a correlation between weight and fitness, even with extra pounds.

Got to be honest here from this picture...you certainly do not look "overweight"...I suspect that you may have more muscle mass than "standard" and that gives your the higher weight.

Funny thing....I used to weight about 180 and I am 5'11". I started snowboarding and I now weight 190, but dropped 2 inches on the waist size of jeans......muscle weighs more than fat!

I think you have little to be worried about here.

At 6'2" and 215lbs I'm definitely overweight by the standards of some. But in order for me to get down to 190lbs, I have to diet in a manner that I feel is excessive and unsupportable. Might have a beach body at 190lbs, but I won't have the energy to go the beach.

Some Data: sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/VO2_max.htm

I can't remember what souce to cite, but don't think there is always a correlation between weight and fitness, even with extra pounds.

Mike if you were that size when we met, I would certainly not call you overweight.

i thought this thread was a joke @ first.. lot of good information...

one thing to keep in mind re: BMI is it has become /is a useful tool for those of us in certain medical venues. used to calulate drug dosages/ anticipate needs in various surgeries et. because of the ever increasing size of people even surgery tables have had to be modified in order to accomodate large BMI

personally I never see any over wt skiers in the BC