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Target Weight

  • 22-05-2011 9:41am
    #1
    GT_TDI_150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭


    Guys and Gals,

    What is the most accurate way to caclulate your ideal/correct/target/healthy weight?

    I'm close on going below the obese marker on the BMI scale but I do appreciate that this scale is far from accurate.

    I'd like a realistic Idea of what i need to aim for, the BMI scale would have me(177cm) @150lbs, I think this is a little low.

    I'm looking for some thing I can calculate/measure at home, I know some gyms have scales that can tell you all sorts but I have no access to these.

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Dotcomdolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭Dotcomdolly


    How about aiming for bmi 24 = 75kg = 165lbs


  • #3
    GT_TDI_150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭GT_TDI_150


    Dotcomdolly wrote: »
    How about aiming for bmi 24 = 75kg = 165lbs

    as BMI isnt very accurate, I was hoping to find another method of knowing my 'correct' weight


  • #4
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Body fat percentage.


  • #5
    GT_TDI_150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭GT_TDI_150


    Tremelo wrote: »
    Body fat percentage.

    thanks, I've just did one of the calculators online and it gives me 28%.

    what does this figure mean and how does it translate to a recommended/average weight?


  • #6
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    GT_TDI_150 wrote: »
    as BMI isnt very accurate, I was hoping to find another method of knowing my 'correct' weight

    You don't really have a ''correct weight''.

    As mentioned above, your body fat percentage is by far and away the most accurate way of telling how healthy your body is. You should be able to pick up a calipers on line or in certain shops around town.

    Another good estimation is your waist-hip ratio. For women the ''ideal'' ratio is 1:.7, and for men it is 1:.9 so if you were working towards that it wouldn't be a bad aim.


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  • #7
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    GT_TDI_150 wrote: »
    thanks, I've just did one of the calculators online and it gives me 28%.

    what does this figure mean and how does it translate to a recommended/average weight?

    I would take that reading with a pinch of salt, online estimations can be extremely inaccurate.


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