Proper weight?
10-10-03, 05:04 PM
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Proper weight?
i am 5/7.... i weigh 145... is that too much..... i got down to 127 once but gained the weight back... how much do you weigh?
10-10-03, 06:14 PM
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seriously...
i felt great at 127, but gained it back, thinking i should weigh more. But now i read about that pro that weighs 125. Do any of you guys weigh 130********** if so how do you stay that low. **********??
10-10-03, 06:18 PM
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I am 6'4" / 170 lbs and feel extremely skinny. Unles your racing, think of your "extra weight" as more resistance. If you can hold a 22mph pace at 145lbs, imagine how fast you will be at 130.
One of the guys I ride with is pushing 300 lbs, he has no problem keeping up with the group. Infact, everyone loves to draft him for some odd reason...
One of the guys I ride with is pushing 300 lbs, he has no problem keeping up with the group. Infact, everyone loves to draft him for some odd reason...
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6'1" @ 180lbs I tried to get down to 170 but I would hit it and then eat like I was starving but I wasn't. Guess 180 is my weight.
10-10-03, 07:11 PM
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I'm 5'6" and float around 145lbs. According to charts and rough estimates, that puts me at 5lbs. over my ideal weight (whatever that means). I admittedly creep closer to 150lbs. around the holidays though. 
I used to weigh 125lbs. to 130lbs. back in my starving college student and racing (MTB) days.
I used to weigh 125lbs. to 130lbs. back in my starving college student and racing (MTB) days.
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10-10-03, 07:52 PM
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I'm 5'7" and weigh 150lbs. in the winter. And in the summer
I'll get down to around 142lbs by just riding. I use to be able
to eat just about anything I wanted to, but now that I'm getting
older it is getting harder.
I'll get down to around 142lbs by just riding. I use to be able
to eat just about anything I wanted to, but now that I'm getting
older it is getting harder.
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Man I would not worry about your weight! I am 5ft 8" and weigh in at 202lbs.I may not be the fastest guy on my wed.group ride but I can hang with them.
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haha, i'm 176cm(5'9") and weigh 57kg(127 pounds), beat that. haha, i can say that i look real skinny. haha, one of my teacher really complains about that. haha. Still have quite a bit of fats here and there, but can really gain from some muscle mass to improve my strength and power output.
Can i give you guys one sugggestion? Try using both the metric and imperial? It'll be much easier for comparison. 1 inch is about 2.5 cm and that makes a big difference between 5'9" and 5'10"
Can i give you guys one sugggestion? Try using both the metric and imperial? It'll be much easier for comparison. 1 inch is about 2.5 cm and that makes a big difference between 5'9" and 5'10"
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oxologic- we here in the USA are not as well versed on the metric and imperical, so forgive us for the lack of metric knowledge on our part!
Personally, if I hadn't travelled abroad, I still wouldn't have much knowledge of the metric system!
Koffee
Personally, if I hadn't travelled abroad, I still wouldn't have much knowledge of the metric system!
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i was 120lbs 5'9'' when i smoked, then my lung collapased and that sucked so i quit smoking and went to disneyworld and gained 10 lbs
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Originally Posted by oxologic
Can i give you guys one sugggestion? Try using both the metric and imperial? It'll be much easier for comparison. 1 inch is about 2.5 cm and that makes a big difference between 5'9" and 5'10"
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Originally Posted by giant_ds3
i felt great at 127, but gained it back, thinking i should weigh more. But now i read about that pro that weighs 125. Do any of you guys weigh 130********** if so how do you stay that low. **********??
I'm 5'7" and was at 127 at one point. That was my best cycling weight. I feel this was when I was at my strongest as far as biking goes. Now I'm 133-135. I feel better now OVERALL than when I was lighter cuz I'm doing more weight lifting these days, less biking. I think I'm going to stick around this weight cuz I don't look as scrawny.
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Originally Posted by khuon
I refute the metric system... thus I weigh 4.5067 slugs and am 1.6764x10^10 angstroms high.
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Our paceline runs 20-22 mph. We have one woman in the paceline and I hate riding behind her. She is probably 5'6" and am guessing she weighs in at about 125. When she pulls and I am behind her it is like I am pulling twice because she blocks so little wind when she is in the drops. And then it is my pull. Riding behind her is always extra work because of this, regardless of where one is in the paceline. Sorry Franchine, but I wish you weighed 150 so you could block more wind. Or you would wear shoulder pads.
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Originally Posted by ParamountScapin
Our paceline runs 20-22 mph. We have one woman in the paceline and I hate riding behind her. She is probably 5'6" and am guessing she weighs in at about 125. When she pulls and I am behind her it is like I am pulling twice because she blocks so little wind when she is in the drops. And then it is my pull. Riding behind her is always extra work because of this, regardless of where one is in the paceline. Sorry Franchine, but I wish you weighed 150 so you could block more wind. Or you would wear shoulder pads.
Now I am 6' and 190 lbs. I could lose a bit more but I am close to lean at that weight. I used to ride with a guy who was 6'6" and 240. People used to love to get behind us in a double paceline and we liked pulling. But I wonder why we were so popular?
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Originally Posted by giant_ds3
i felt great at 127, but gained it back, thinking i should weigh more. But now i read about that pro that weighs 125. Do any of you guys weigh 130********** if so how do you stay that low. **********??
If I was getting paid thousands of pounds for riding a bike, I would get my weight down there pound 4 pound pretty easily, (6'0 feet). It would take around 1000 miles of contant cycling and absolutley NO Whey protein, Glutamine, Creatine etc to help in the aid of absolute muscle breakdown.
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In my opinion, better than the height/weight analysis is looking at body fat %. I bought a Tanita scale last week and have started to track my weight and body fat %. The scale is supposed to be very accurate and is not that expensive (around $70).
I have a friend who races, and is around 7% body fat. That's way lower than where I want to be, which is somewhere around the middle of the "healthy" range (11% to 21%) for my weight.
I have a friend who races, and is around 7% body fat. That's way lower than where I want to be, which is somewhere around the middle of the "healthy" range (11% to 21%) for my weight.