Monday, April 14, 2008

Addit - For those interested in body composition - Muscle weight vs Fat weight

For those who are interested:
In my previous post about the Hydroxycut girl who was the same weight and height as me, but wearing size 16's (and I wear 10 - 12's) I wondered about my body image. I know I dont look as good as she does in her "after" photos, but I didn't think I looked as big as her "before".
I've since found her before and after measurements:

Waist - before - 35 inches
after - 25 inches
mine - 30 inches

Hips - before - 41 inches
after - 33 inches
mine - 38 inches

What does this mean?
Looking at these measurements it would appear that my shape is somewhere in between her before and afters, just like I thought.
Same weight and height - but clearly NOT the same body. The only explanation I can come for how the 65 kgs is distributed differently over the same sized frame is muscle mass. I must have a greater and hence more compact muscle mass. We always talk about muscle weighing more than fat - here's a good example. We have basically identicle BMI's, but based on these body measurements, I suspect we are not equally overweight.

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