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re: No such thing as 'fat but fit', major study finds
Posted on 5/17/17 at 9:47 am to mikelbr
Posted on 5/17/17 at 9:47 am to mikelbr
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How can you be obese but appear healthy?
James Haskell, flanker for England say's hello at 6'4 260. He can beat 90% of the OT any distance 40m to a 5k and bench 300 squat 400.
But... his BMI is 31.
Guys like that are 4 or 5 sigma standard deviation extremes. Ditto NFL linemen.
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Posted on 5/17/17 at 9:52 am to AbuTheMonkey
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Guys like that are 4 or 5 sigma standard deviation extremes. Ditto NFL linemen.
Being a former rugby player on a Div1 mens club. We had 8-10 of us at 28-32 BMI. Not nearly as jacked as him but we were all just as fit(okay maybe not as high on the beep test as pros) on the cardio metrics that pros are held too(that's the balance of genes with hard work).
So do the math of Division 1 mens club PLUS mens college teams in the US. Thats a LOT of young men 18-35 who fit that same mold as the Pro player example.
We still may have been outliers but it's very common to be 6'2 240 lbs, NOT be a professional rugby player and still fit/obese. The issue is AFTER you're done playing rugby.
Now I'm just fat.
This post was edited on 5/17/17 at 9:56 am
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