Fit and fat

[Bollo]

Yeah right..

Ian Holm is more hench than you'd expect.

 

[Drago]

Blimey, Derek Jacobi has really sorted himself out.

 

[ColinJ]

As you get older it is inevitable to put on weight unless you starve yourself silly. If you exercise as well, like cycling, you become fitter and healthier but still a bit overweight because this is the law of nature on the human body.

Er, wrong!

Here's a friend of mine on my 2015 Yorkshire Dales ride ...

He was 61.5 years old in that picture. He is very fit, 5' 10" tall, weighs about 10 st 5 lbs, eats way more than I do and I eat plenty!

 

[Drago]

But he poos a lot more than you do, so it evens out.

 

[gavroche]

Ok, my reply attracted quite a bit of controversy so I will change it slightly to: you can't do much about your morphology, some are born to be skinny, others well......

 

[Drago]

You can't change your underlying somatotype, but you can build up or reduce as much as your determination and will power will permit.

 

[Aperitif]

I have been obese all my life. Mesomorphe or me - less for you!

 

[ColinJ]

But he poos a lot more than you do, so it evens out.

Apparently, he does!

He is one of those people who hates to sit around for too long whereas I would be happy to sit around all day after (say) a 2 hour bike ride. It takes me a lot longer to get bored.

 

[fossyant]

You are better off fit and fat.

You see folk that are super slim and never exercise. Slim doesn't mean fit. I have a relative that is more than half my age, third of my weight, and I could crawl faster than she could run two miles without collapsing. She went in for a 'mud muddy' type race, and I said before, what training have you done ? It was the odd run. She managed about a mile before needing oxygen.

 

[reacher]

Normally I weigh 75kg (1.79m). However I've been complexly inactive for the last 2 months due to a slipped disc and I now weigh 71kg. My GP said muscle weighs more than fat and that my weight loss was due to muscle wastage.

Ask your doctor how a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat

 

[JtB]

Ask your doctor how a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat

Very good

 

[Hacienda71]

All of this depends on how you define fit.

 

[Dayvo]

But he poos a lot more than you do, so it evens out.

Apparently, he does! He is one of those people who hates to sit around for too long whereas I would be happy to sit around all day ....

What, on the toilet!

 

[ColinJ]

What, on the toilet!

Vegetarian diet, loads of fibre ... Wouldn't have time to even read the headlines on page 1, let alone the whole newspaper!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

At least 10kg overweight. Ran three half marathons last month.