Your are unique, just like everyone else. Your "ideal" weight is just a guideline.
For example, a fit woman on a 1,500 calorie diet or a fit man on a 2,000 calories per day diet who regularly worked out at a high intensity for over 5 hours per week for 6 months to a year
could get close to their ideal weight. That kind of discipline gets you to ideal, a few more calories and less exercise can keep you healthy.
Your mileage will very. There are more precise methods for calculating your fat, ideal weights, frames sizes and target heart rate zones.
For example, the "Immersion" or Hydrostatic Density Test is the widely accepted standard for measuring body fat.
These results are estimates only.
If you don't have a flexible tape measure, just wrap a piece of cord or string that does not stretch around your wrist and measure the string!
Measure to within a 1/4 inch. Whatever you use to measure yourself make that it fits snugly but does not compress the skin.
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Activity Level
Sedentary: couch potato
Light: 1-3 days a week
Moderate: 3-5 days a week
Moderate activity is exercise at or above 70% of
your target heart rate zone for at least 25 minutes.
Very hard: 6-7 days a week
Extra hard: > 3 hours a day
For the most accurate results do this first thing in the
morning,no clothes after going to the bathroom and before
eating anything
Click the "Where to Measure" button and:
For Height without shoes, stand tall
For Neck circumference of the lower section of the neck
For Mens waist
measure at the navel, stand tall
Do Not stick out belly or suck it in
For Womens waist
measure at the level of minimal abdominal width, stand tall
For Womens Hips
largest horizontal circumference around the hips
For Wrist
the circumference of your wrist at the smallest point,
just below your wrist bone
Your are unique, just like everyone else. Your "ideal" weight is just a guideline.
For example, a fit woman on a 1,500 calorie diet or a fit man on a 2,000 calories per day diet who regularly worked out at a high intensity for over 5 hours per week for 6 months to a year
could get close to their ideal weight. That kind of discipline gets you to ideal, a few more calories and less exercise can keep you healthy.
Your mileage will very. There are more precise methods for calculating your fat, ideal weights, frames sizes and target heart rate zones.
For example, the "Immersion" or Hydrostatic Density Test is the widely accepted standard for measuring body fat.
These results are estimates only.
An Explaination of the results
The Body Mass Index is not that reliable an indicator.
The new Body Mass Index is not that reliable an indicator
Frame Sizes are small, medium and large
Ideal Weight is based on Frame size and height from the Metropolitan Life Tables
Body Fat :15% is Fit, under 25 is healthy, using the Navy Calculations
Lean Body Mass :Your non fat
LBM Ideal Weight :Lean Body Mass / .85 Your current LBM with 15% fat
Basal Metabolic Rate:An estimate of the calories you burn per day just being alive per Harris-Benedict formula
Daily Energy Expended :The calories you burn taking into consideration your activity level.
:Basal Metabolic Rate * Activity Factor
Moderate Activity is defined as exercise at or above 70% of your target heart rate zone for at least 25 minutes.
Study of the Military Services Physical Fitness, DoD, 1981
http://www.nhrc.navy.mil/programs/BodyFat/index.html
Metabolic Information Harris J, Benedict F. A biometric study of basal metabolism in man. Washington D.C. Carnegie Institute of Washington. 1919.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition http://www.ajcn.org/
Metropolitan Life Ideal Weight Tables
