There seems to be as many opinions and misinformation floating around about personal weight that I thought we might share and perhaps open our minds a bit. Here are the questions that I feel will provide useful info:
Age
Sex
Height
Present weight range (many people vary 3-4 lbs over a day)
Ideal weight range for optimum health (your opinion)
Ideal weight range for optimum swimming performance
What steps are you taking, or will you be taking, to lose or
gain the weight difference between present & optimum.
I'll start
54
M
6'1"
220-224
190-194
182-188
Drastically cut down drinking & desserts; resume active training
25
F
5'11"
154-157
145-159 (145lbs for a 5'11" athlete is WAY too low in my opinion! i mean, at 155 i'm still pretty darn skinny!)
154-157
QUOTE]
I just thought it was intersting another female almost as tall with very similar opinions.
26
F
6'0"
168-172
145-175 (This is technically the low and High for my height but they hate it when you are on the high side so it's really 145-165.)
154-157
145lbs for a 5"11-6' athlete IS way too skinny. In high school I was between 135 & 145. Skin, bones, and muscule. Right now I'm just getting back into swimming so I've been happily loosing weight every week. I agree with swimmieAvsFan that hovering around 155 is pretty optimal. I was at that weight swimming in college and I felt much stronger than I did in High School. It is also seriously skinny still - but with boobs and a butt.
Right now I still feel like I have dead weight on me.
25
F
5'11"
154-157
145-159 (145lbs for a 5'11" athlete is WAY too low in my opinion! i mean, at 155 i'm still pretty darn skinny!)
154-157
QUOTE]
I just thought it was intersting another female almost as tall with very similar opinions.
26
F
6'0"
168-172
145-175 (This is technically the low and High for my height but they hate it when you are on the high side so it's really 145-165.)
154-157
145lbs for a 5"11-6' athlete IS way too skinny. In high school I was between 135 & 145. Skin, bones, and muscule. Right now I'm just getting back into swimming so I've been happily loosing weight every week. I agree with swimmieAvsFan that hovering around 155 is pretty optimal. I was at that weight swimming in college and I felt much stronger than I did in High School. It is also seriously skinny still - but with boobs and a butt.
Right now I still feel like I have dead weight on me.
