What's your fighting weight?

Bambi985

General question for the good folks of AH. What weight do you look and feel best at, are physically fittest, strive to attain or maintain in your general day-to-day?

I'm a five foot 1 woman and sit best at about 8 stone. Any lower and the boobage disappears, any higher and I look grand if a bit "well fed" as my mother would say. I really can't get away with any weight gain like most regular-height humans.

What's your fighting weight and how close are you to it right now?

MarkR

Usually 4-5 pints

Peregrine

I've never been close to my 'ideal weight'. I reckon I'd need to be at least 65kg but I've stayed at 57-58kg since my teens and for all of my adult life. It just doesn't budge beyond that.

mad muffin

A lunch box. Snack box not enough… KFC bucket too much.

Amirani

I've been 70kg pretty consistently for the past year and a half, so I guess that's me.

Eyes Down Field

Sumo

Digital Solitude

About 90-95kg. I weigh about 104kg at the minute, but I'm a little pudgy

whoopsadoodles

My "ideal weight" would have me looking wretched.

My BMI at my hottest and fittest is 27.5.

It's not really about weight for me.

I'm sure I could be 27.5 BMI and be a blob if I didn't work out.

Digital Solitude

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

My "ideal weight" would have me looking wretched.

My BMI at my hottest and fittest is 27.5.

It's not really about weight for me.

I'm sure I could be 27.5 BMI and be a blob if I didn't work out.

Weight is definitely a better measure than BMI is it not?

whoopsadoodles

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Weight is definitely a better measure than BMI is it not?

Well they equate to the same thing - don't they?

My point is, if I told you my idea of my ideal weight and height, you'd have a vision of me being a chubster but I'd be anything but.

Waist size/Bodyfat percentage etc are much better indicators than just weight.

harry Bailey esq

a gram and a half of decent posh,and a good few fluid ounces of rotgut whiskey is enough to turn me into a pugilist.I hover around 12 stone so that would put me somewhere at the higher end of middleweight I suppose?

osarusan

My amateur boxing weight was 71kg (light middleweight). That was too skinny and achieved by fasting, but about 3-4 kg more than that would be ideal.

Sleepy

I don't think I've ever been at my "fighting weight". I was slim enough in my late teens due to swimming a lot and in my twenties I once got to the point where I had pretty good arms / shoulders / chest but I've never managed to get a flat stomach while having any degree of muscle. I'm 5'10 and have a broad frame so I'm guessing were I to train like a bastard and give up eating / drinking everything I enjoy for a year or so I could probably get to a pretty good fighter's build at around 80kg.

Agricola

85kg would be about right for me. Hovering at 90 and abit more at the moment.

Bambi985

Am I the only person on the planet that still uses the imperial system for weight??

corner of hells

I'm assuming BMI means burger meal intake .

If so I'd be a prop in the local rugby team.

Malari

I've never really changed that much - I'm always around 54kg, give or take a kilo for at least 20 years, so I don't have anything to compare it with in terms of ideal weight. That gives me a BMI of 19, so could probably put on 10kg and still be "healthy". I'm happy with that.

begbysback

Medium rare

yourdeadwright

74KG at 12% body fat @5'7 
At minute 76 at 15 %

lukesmom

About 11 1/2 stone and I'm 5 foot 8. Unfortunately I am 3 stone heavier thanks to a medication I am on. Grrrrrr

red ears

I'm 5ft 11in and i like to be no more than 37 stone. I'm a fine trim looking fella at that weight.

red ears

Only joking about the 37 stone, i'm normally between 12.5 stone and 13 and i am lucky that i can eat pretty much what i want and don't blow up. I don't like being below 12 stone though as i look too thin.

yourdeadwright

yourdeadwright wrote: »

74KG at 12% body fat @5'7 
At minute 76 at 15 %

12% at 74kg is 65kg lean which is basically the max amount of natural lean weight possible for your height!

I'm about 5'6.75 and 65 kg at about 10% feels like a fine nimble weight to be without losing all my muscle. Currently about 71 kg though.

ohnonotgmail

about the weight of a decent sized backrow.

circadian

Currently 5'8 and 11.5 stone (73kg) with about 8% body fat. Always been a skinny feck but now I run at least 3 times a week and lift 3 times a week.

Still scrawny looking but I feel the best I've felt in a long time.

Le Bruise

Bambi985 wrote: »

Am I the only person on the planet that still uses the imperial system for weight??

Nope!;)

I'm at my fighting weight of 18 stone currently (6'4 male). I did venture to the dizzy heights of 21.5 stone at one point due to a rugby injury (and it happened fairly easily) so really have to watch myself now!

Fathom

6' at 125 #

DEFTLEFTHAND

6'1 and like to try and stay in the 12 and half to 13st range.

Light Heavyweight in boxing terms I think.

valoren

6'1 and my 'race' weight is 12 stone 10 lbs.
Anytime I've ever been under that I seem to have back issues funnily enough.
Between 12.10 and 13 stone is my sweet spot.

I'm about 13.6 now but getting back into it over the summer.
Once I run, the Pringles and Beer melt away.

Mister Vain

At the moment I'm a light middleweight but I'm a natural welterweight.

noaddedsugar

I'm a woman, 5'6" and weigh 8stone 9/10lbs. I don't like to be any heavier than that, I hate the feeling of having any blubbler on me. I cycle a lot and do yoga and like to be lean. I'm quite a small build anyway and if I put on extra weight it just makes me look flabby, not curvy.

longshanks

I'm 6 foot tall, and earlier I weighed myself and saw that I was 12 st 12.5lbs.
I took a dump and now I'm 12st 11.25lbs.
Losing weight is easy.

mzungu

Around 6'3 and weigh about 11.5 stone. Thin enough. However, I do exercise pretty regularly so I feel in tip top nick. Long may it continue.

5 foot 8 and usually in the 10 stone 5/6 pound bracket. Only started weighing myself recently after I felt it had crept up during a 6 week injury lay off from running, and it had gone to 10 stone 11, but ran it off again.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Deleted User wrote: »

5 foot 8 and usually in the 10 stone 5/6 pound bracket. Only started weighing myself recently after I felt it had crept up during a 6 week injury lay off from running, and it had gone to 10 stone 11, but ran it off again.

Yeah nothing worse than injury weight.

I broke my leg about ten years ago and put up nearly two stone. It made the whole rehab process after the cast came off a lot tougher.

pickarooney

[Deleted User] wrote: »

12% at 74kg is 65kg lean which is basically the max amount of natural lean weight possible for your height!

I'm about 5'6.75 and 65 kg at about 10% feels like a fine nimble weight to be without losing all my muscle. Currently about 71 kg though.

How the **** do you people work out anything by mixing imperial and metric willy nilly?

Burial.

6"2, 175 lbs @10% body fat would be summer/peak physique condition for me. So I'd just break into LHW.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

When I was a young fella heavily in to athletics I was 65kg. I was a stroke on a slate and much too light. I have been 78kg, give or take no more than 2kg, for the past 45 years. It's just my weight and it's not overweight for 6ft in height. I never give it any thought.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I very rarely weigh myself these days. I'm 5'10 and usually weigh 78-80kg. I train 4 to 5 times a week and would be fairly fit and my weight always hovers around that range. However, if I'm not training due to injury and don't watch what I eat, I put on weight very easily

Here's something I often wonder- what degree of weight gain do people consider to be noteworthy on themselves? Like suppose for instance your "normal" weight is 70 kg - would you be able to tell a *big* difference if you were 69 kg instead, or 71kg? Basically is 1kg a big difference? I know a 1kg bag of sugar feels heavy enough but 1 kg spread over your whole body surely isn't that noticeable, unless you're very thin to start off with?

Your Face

My current of 115kg is what I'm most comfortable at.

Bambi985

Deleted User wrote: »

Here's something I often wonder- what degree of weight gain do people consider to be noteworthy on themselves? Like suppose for instance your "normal" weight is 70 kg - would you be able to tell a *big* difference if you were 69 kg instead, or 71kg? Basically is 1kg a big difference? I know a 1kg bag of sugar feels heavy enough but 1 kg spread over your whole body surely isn't that noticeable, unless you're very thin to start off with?

5 pounds on me in either direction would be fairly noticeable. Face either bigger or thinner, smaller or bigger stomach, it would probably put me up or down a cup size on my chest too. I'd look notably different in pictures too.

I'd say given my height it would probably be the visual equivalent of someone of average height gaining or losing about a stone.

Tigger

I'm 6'2" and about 110kg
I should be 98 kg but beer and steak are yummy

Erik Shin

I boxed at welterweight....I think I'm big enough to be 2 welterweights now

Arghus

Haven't a clue. Haven't weighed myself in about five years.

LordSutch

11st 6lbs.

...in my dreams.

Winterlong

I am 12 stone, 76kg.
Male and 5'11". But not overly fit at the moment so the distribution of the 12 stone is not what I would like.

Lia_lia

I'm 5'9" and would be most comfortable at about 60kg. I weigh about 70kg now I just feel uncomfortable. Although I'm technically still at a healthy weight for my height and don't really look "heavy" I'd never had rolls of fat before .. Not very easy to lose weight though, used to find it very hard to put on weight when I was younger. If only I knew!

This time 5 years ago I weighed about 54kg. I blame moving in with my boyfriend and getting a desk job. Oh and eating loads.

munster87

I'll fight anyone under 60kg

snowflaker

7lb12oz

ongarite

5'11" at 72kg, 14% BF.
Fittest and heaviest I've ever weighed.