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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yup. Anything else?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Depend how fat 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Alexandra, But you have to work so much harder. Why then if you have the full fitness bug, do you not lose weight? If you have 5 stone on me, then doesn't that put your cardiovascular system under strain? I'm not attempting to be rude - I lost weight myself and I see the 'fitness' benefit.
I'm sure you ski better, but I'm a mean horse rider. 
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I'm not interested in a p*ssing contest or battling people's "baiting" threads. I'd like to lose a couple of stone, but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life, I'm fit & happy & don't need to criticise the body shapes of others to feel good about myself.
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Now now ladies.
Who wants a sticky bun?
PS - The above is meant as a joke, pelase don't shout. And I am allowed to comment as I promised myself I would lose a few lb's (perhaps stones) before my trip tomorrow, and well...............
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I dropped from 13st5 to 11st6 last year between March and August. It was easy, and made other things easier, too. I can run further and faster, cycling, walking and skiing are all easier. Now that I've replaced the clothes that were far too big for me I'm now spending less. Food bills have reduced because I've figured out what I need, treating food as fuel and nothing more.
I'm sure fat people can be fit, but it's relative. Will at 16st chubby ever do a sub-three hour marathon? Will an 8st marathon runner ever get through an entire packet of chocolate Hobnobs in one sitting? Who knows.
Can fat people eat less? Can fat people take up less space?
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Are the Welsh as fat headed as they appear here? 
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It's just an observation, but if a larger person decided that they want to get fit enough to ski (implying that they don't feel they are fit enoguh to ski without doing so) the action of getting fit may result in the drop of some weight anyway which I don't suppose anyone would mind  .
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Masque, probably, particularly slim Welsh people.
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I'm neither slim nor fit and despite a fair bit of experience, I'm not a very good skier...
However, I enjoy it very much and I'm not a danger to myself or others. That's all that matters really isn't it...?
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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i always thought alberto tomba looked like he was carrying a bit of timber...
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Poster: A snowHead
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You don't need to be fit to ski - as long as you have the correct technique.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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5'10 and 17st - unless you're a body builder doesn't that put you at the wrong end of obese!? Even 14st4 is a fair bit over - I'm 5'10 and current 12st2 and intend to drop eight pounds by the end of next month.
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hyweljenkins, the fat BMI thingy never takes into account muscle bulk. To say someone is obese, based on their weight alone, is wrong IMHO
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty the Snowman, I know that, but Vipa described himself as "lardy". "Lardy" isn't "muscle bulk". At the top of his game Dennis Wolf was 5'11 and 260lb, but he was Mr Universe at the time.
I firmly believe that when figuring out if you can shed some fat the trick is to *look*, not to *weigh*. People know that they're fat, or that they have fat, without need to get on some scales.
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
| 5'10 and 17st - unless you're a body builder doesn't that put you at the wrong end of obese!? Even 14st4 is a fair bit over - I'm 5'10 and current 12st2 and intend to drop eight pounds by the end of next month. |
Yes but everyone knows that BMI is an approximation and doesn't take account of real people in the real world. Arni at his peak was clinically obese????? go figure??? Like I said when I was at my fittest (apparently 3 stone overweight) I had a measured %body fat of 18
Muscle mass makes a hell of a difference remember.
But... right now I am fat, but I'm also quite fit, give me 6 months and I'll be very fit but I'll still be 14 stone ish.
Also, another point to note is genetic make up.... I hit 14 stone at age 15.5 and have never dropped back below it, yet I was captain of the school athletics team (javelin & discus) & basketball team and competed regionally in athletics as well as playing footie, cricket and rugby for both school & college teams...
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Vipa, you're agreeing with what I said. If you had 1% body fat you were unhealthy, and you would certainly not have made a very good athlete. I suspect the measurement was wrong.
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
| Vipa, you're agreeing with what I said. If you had 1% body fat you were unhealthy, and you would certainly not have made a very good athlete. I suspect the measurement was wrong. |
Absolutely incorrect.... You would be incredibly unhealthy with only 1% body fat... the acceptable 'healthy' range for my age at the time I was very fit was between 8 & 20% anything under that and you could have serious health problems... the human body needs a fat supply. If you had 0% body fat your system would pack in as soon as you ran out of fuel ALA beez, they carry no reserves and so if they can't get to nectar in time they litterally fall out of the sky.
The average man has 15 to 17% body fat, while the average woman is between 18 and 22%. Typical values for elite athletes are 6% to 12% for men and 12% to 20% for women.
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Vipa, your original post claimed you had "%body fat of 1". Nice edit.
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
| Vipa, your original post claimed you had "%body fat of 1". Nice edit. |
It was edited because I hade put a closed bracket after the 8 and it read thus.... 1
read my original original post
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Being fit makes skiing easier - simple.
Last year I was fit - 5ft 10, 12.5 stone, 11% body fat and resting pulse of 50; when I skied with my mates I just didn't get tired which made a change from me wheezing at the back. This year I've let myself go - 5ft 10 (still), 12.9 stone, 18 % body fat and resting pulse of 70 - off on saturday and think I'm going to get crucified.
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You know it makes sense.
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| bucking bronco wrote: |
Being fit makes skiing easier - simple.
Last year I was fit - 5ft 10, 12.5 stone, 11% body fat and resting pulse of 50; when I skied with my mates I just didn't get tired which made a change from me wheezing at the back. This year I've let myself go - 5ft 10 (still), 12.9 stone, 18 % body fat and resting pulse of 70 - off on saturday and think I'm going to get crucified. |
Have to admit... I'm going training now and thinking please god let this end.... 4 or 5 years ago, before I did my knee, I used to get really p****d off 'cos my mates used to wimp out after one game of squash... I just wanted more.... The downside however is that it was just that that caused my knee injury..... 3 hours into an afternoon session with my then business partner and my right knee felt like someone had poured powdered glass into it (should have stopped then!!) 3 and a half hours in..... something let go in my knee, I screamed, fell to the floor and the rest, as they say, is history!
But yes, the last few years skiing as an unfit fat boy have certainly been hard work but I have still enjoyed every minute! Will be nice next season when I'm back to some sort of real fitness!
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Good luck with your recovery - putting the hard graft in now with the physio will pay dividends next year I'm sure. 1999 I got helicoptered off the slopes in a stretcher - reconstructive surgery on my shoulder complete with 3 bits of metal, took 2000 off and 2001 was awesome.
So if you're missing this year - surely that means you can go twice as many times next year?
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Poster: A snowHead
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My brother is 5'10 and over 17 st. He beats most of the people he plays at squash and can mountain bike for most of the day on tough terrain. Damn annoying really
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I still can't fit in just anything that topshop sells yet,
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I will never fit in anything Topshop sells, even as a post mortem skelington. Is that what we're supposed to be aiming at?
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The important question is: when a Woman asks a Man 'Does my bum look big in this?' What should a bloke answer?  Does he tell the truth and get abused, does he lie and get told he's only saying that because that's what he thinks she wants to hear?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Spyderman, The answer is 'of course not, but I think you could look even more terrific in a new outfit, let me come with you and we'll use my credit card to buy one'
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My Wii fit doesn't think I can ski, it thinks I'm a fat barsteward. It has just asked me if I would like to dicuss my calorie intake. It's a machine for f*cks sake!!
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ickabodblue, my Wii fit reckons I've got pretty poor balance and that I can't ski. Next time I'm doing a couloir or skiing the trees I'll take it with me and throw it down the slope ahead of me. I want to see how well it does.
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