fat skiers?

BMI is just a guideline for the average body type and taller folks generally are outliers.  Don't get to bogged down in the details and just be happy.  As a good friend of mine said "Eventually we all die and my reason might as well be butter" 

Have a great New Year!!!
From Wikipedia:

"BMI provided a simple numeric measure of a person's "fatness" or "thinness", allowing health professionals to discuss over- and under-weight problems more objectively with their patients. However, BMI has become controversial because many people, including physicians, have come to rely on its apparent numerical authority for medical diagnosis, but that was never the BMI's purpose; it is meant to be used as a simple means of classifying sedentary (physically inactive) individuals with an average body composition."

"For a given height, BMI is proportional to weight. However, for a given weight, BMI is inversely proportional to the square of the height. So, if all body dimensions double, and weight scales naturally with the cube of the height, then BMI doubles instead of remaining the same. This results in taller people having a reported BMI that is uncharacteristically high compared to their actual body fat levels."

At 6'2" and 215lbs I'm definitely overweight by the standards of some.

Clearly this fine physical specimen does not have the centripital fat stores of a sedentary person.

Im carrying a 10 pound brick in MY backpack TOO. It is a Darwinian advantage because in an unplanned bivy those extra calories (fat/protein whatever) could save my life. 

JibberD, quit whining and buy yourself a new coat.  :

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128267723

Weight to this discussion. Thier definition of fit is pretty much a joke in my opinion. However anyone that reads this forum would pretty much automatically qualify.

My main ski buddy is now pushing this limit; he's a goaty climber but gets much more winded and sweaty and skis worse as his gut stretches.  On the current course in 10 years he'll be another "oh I'm a skier but ..."

WeakKnees...is that you hiding behind an alternative persona???
....If you want to say something to me...please say it directly:

Pin: Captain of the Tombstone Clydesdale Club... (oops)

I just want to see how many pictures of cookie we can get on one thread.

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