Re: graphing Ketan's weight

[Roger Key <phaedo@ntlworld.com>]

>Ketan,
>

As my good friend John Norrie is apt to say.  "Lean tissue is you, 
fat is on you."  Now I do not know why you have been weighing 
yourself, if it is as part of a trial of variation etc fine. If you 
are looking to improve your health then there are things that you 
should be looking at and weight is not one of them.  Weight is not a 
good measure of health.  Body mass index is an indicator but it is 
not that good either it assumes that increase in body weight is due 
to fat not muscle.  I was deemed to be too fat and needed to lose 
weight a number of years ago whilst I was regularly playing rugby to 
a moderate standard.  This required me to be in the gym 3 times a 
week some of this time was working with big weights.  At the time I 
was pulling 16 stone plus (225 lb + 102kG+)  however I was also 
running less than 10% body fat.  As the upper health limit for a male 
is generally assumed to be 15% no way did I need to lose weight. 
Upper limit for a female should be 25%.  IN doing work with many 
individuals we have found that a number of essentially 'fat' looking 
people who wished to lose weight were in fact very low on body fat. 
Similarly we have seen a number of racing snakes and aerobic godesses 
who were running too high body fat.

The human body is a system and is usually stable.  This stability may 
not necessarily be at a healthy limit.  Before we can change the 
system we need to know what that system is and what our theory is. 
We then need to change the system to make improvements.  If we are 
looking to improve wellbeing and health typically we would be looking 
at body fat, resting heart rate, VO2max, blood pressure etc.  If we 
understand that the body is a system and have developed some theory 
for that system we probably would not be looking at the scales.

John has some more info at http://www.fit2lead.com 

	Roger.

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