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Makes sense... hearts are put under more strain pushing blood round larger bodies, whether that mass is fat or muscle may no matter.
Anecdotally, I've heard the same, and worse: elite athletes, with extensive muscle and good cardio endurance (boxers, sprinters, swimmers), are actually at a health disadvantage. Why? Because their hearts have to work harder. So, a heavily-muscled man with a BMI of 29, who can do 100 pushups, then run 10K in 45 minutes, then again do 100 pushups, is in some sense of inferior cardiovascular health, to that of a man with BMI of 24, who can't do more than 20 pushups, and would collapse at the 40-minute mark, halfway through his pathetic attempt at a 10K run. The difference is between how well the body performs, and how hard its organs have to work.
.. We've emphasized muscle mass and athletic performance at the cost of cardiovascular fitness. Big bodies, even all muscle, are like heavy automobiles. It takes a lot of effort and fuel to move...
Many professional athletes need all of that muscle mass to keep their jobs, plain and simple. I'm thinking of the big three-basketball, football and baseball.
Amateur athletes like how the pros look on TV and wannabe the same.
Same with guys wanting to emulate the beefy action heroes in movies.
Also, there's the desire to impress the opposite (or same) sex fueling the emphasis on building muscle mass.
So that makes me wonder when we see stats like 40% of Americans are obese (just made that number up). Are they really? Are they using BMI to determine this?
Have you been out in public lately? LOTS of big people out there!
From the instruction manual - "The body fat percentage measured by this unit may significantly differ from actual body fat percentage in the following situations:
Children in growth stage
Elderly people
people with a fever
body builders or professional athletes
patients with osteoporosis who have low one density
women who are pregnant
post-menopausal women
people who have swelling
patients undergoing dialysis"
That eliminates a lot of people. You don't see this information listed on the box or in the advertising - it is only found in the instruction manual.
Get a full-length mirror and occasionally stand in front of it, naked.........you will know.
Take pics, the memory is faulty, optimistic... pessimistic....
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Take pics, the memory is faulty, optimistic... pessimistic....
Great idea, video too if you can stand the sight!
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