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Old 11-15-2014, 07:47 PM
 
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If you believe in body types. I fall in the mesomorph category
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Old 11-15-2014, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Depends on who you ask and in what country. Your mileage may vary.
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Old 11-15-2014, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Encino, CA
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What is a healthy weight for a 5"10 1/2 20 year old guy?
That could be anywhere from 150 lbs to 215 lbs and also how you are defining "healthy". There are "healthy" 5' 10" guys at 140 lbs walking around USC campus, and there are also "healthy" 5' 10" 215-220 pound guys walking around as well who play safety and wide receiver on the football team.

Mike Tyson was a "healthy" 5' 10" 220 pound heavyweight champion of the world at 20 years old. Brad Pitt was 5' 11" and 170 pounds in Fight Club. You see, there is a HUGE range for guys when it comes to "HEALTHY" weight.
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Old 11-18-2014, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Mountain View, CA
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That could be anywhere from 150 lbs to 215 lbs and also how you are defining "healthy". There are "healthy" 5' 10" guys at 140 lbs walking around USC campus, and there are also "healthy" 5' 10" 215-220 pound guys walking around as well who play safety and wide receiver on the football team.

Mike Tyson was a "healthy" 5' 10" 220 pound heavyweight champion of the world at 20 years old. Brad Pitt was 5' 11" and 170 pounds in Fight Club. You see, there is a HUGE range for guys when it comes to "HEALTHY" weight.
This. Weight is relatively meaningless, except for comparing against yourself. BMI is much touted, but it's meant as an average measure of a whole population -- it typically fails miserably for individuals because there is no one body type.

The most obvious thing impacting healthy weight will be how muscular you are. The more muscular you are, the more you will weigh. How you are built in terms of frame plays in hugely as well.

Finally, healthy and perfect aren't the same thing. Most of us on here are looking for the six pack, but it's perfectly healthy to be a bit higher bodyfat than that.

The more reliable measure is bodyfat%, or if you don't want to be so specific, the mirror.
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Old 11-19-2014, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Woodinville
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I'm a similar body type and height (if I understand "mesomorph" correctly) so I'll try to relay my own experience.

In college when I first starting working out I reached 170 and was pretty fit. In my life I've also been 170 and not very fit.

Right now I'm a little over 180, stronger than I've ever been, better endurance, but I wouldn't really consider myself very fit (by looks, anyway). I still suck in my gut when I take off my shirt... I got up to almost 190 for a few weeks and felt very fat and weak. At 180 now, I feel fat but strong.

I will tell you this though, I'm the chubbiest-looking guy at the gym doing pullups, by far. I've never performed better in the gym, but I'm looking at changing things up (workout and diet) because I don't have the look I want yet.
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Old 11-19-2014, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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That 1/2 inch is important, huh?
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Old 11-19-2014, 02:17 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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If you believe in body types. I fall in the mesomorph category
Is there a reason you can't just ask your doctor, or look it up online?
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Old 11-19-2014, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Northville, MI
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I'm more of an endomorph around the same height as yours, and for me a healthy weight would be around 170 lb.
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Old 11-20-2014, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Encino, CA
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The more reliable measure is bodyfat%, or if you don't want to be so specific, the mirror.
Exactly.

Almieda93, if you can, find out where you can have a water displacement test done to test your body fat percentage. Or, buy a pair of body fat calipers from GNC and learn how to test your body fat % with them. Body fat % is more important to know than weight. But I think most people are scared of really knowing what their bodyfat % is so they just stick to the scale because its easier.

I am 6' 1" and just now I weighed myself fully clothed with shoes on and the scale read 176.2. I have a 31 inch waist. I think I have always been more of an ectomorph, but as I get older my body seems to be more mesomorph looking.

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Old 11-20-2014, 09:20 AM
 
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I am 5'10'' and weight 153. apparently, this is smack dab in the middle of the "healthy weight range". and I am considered a "mesomorph"
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