What's your fighting weight?

Bambi985 · 02-06-2017 02:48PM #1

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 · 02-06-2017 02:50PM

Usually 4-5 pints

Peregrine · 02-06-2017 02:55PM

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 · 02-06-2017 02:56PM

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

Amirani · 02-06-2017 02:57PM

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

Eyes Down Field · 02-06-2017 02:58PM

Sumo

Digital Solitude · 02-06-2017 02:58PM

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

whoopsadoodles · 02-06-2017 02:59PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:01PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:03PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:05PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:10PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:10PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:14PM

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

Bambi985 · 02-06-2017 03:21PM

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

corner of hells · 02-06-2017 03:21PM

I'm assuming BMI means burger meal intake .

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

Malari · 02-06-2017 03:25PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:34PM

Medium rare

yourdeadwright · 02-06-2017 03:37PM

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

lukesmom · 02-06-2017 03:38PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:43PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:48PM

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.

02-06-2017 03:51PM

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 · 02-06-2017 03:55PM

about the weight of a decent sized backrow.

02-06-2017 04:09PM

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 · 02-06-2017 04:16PM

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 · 02-06-2017 05:01PM

6' at 125 #

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-06-2017 05:06PM

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

Light Heavyweight in boxing terms I think.

valoren · 02-06-2017 05:06PM

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 · 02-06-2017 05:09PM

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

noaddedsugar · 02-06-2017 05:11PM

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.

What's your fighting weight?

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