It Keeps Getting Better
More news today about the benefits of being a lightweight: "Want to live to a healthy 85? Stay trim." In this case staying trim means a Body Mass Index below 25. For a 5'6" woman to hit a 25 BMI she'd have to pork all the way up to 155, so this isn't exactly limited to lightweights. (On the other hand, at 130 a 5'6" woman has a BMI of 21, right in the middle of the 18 to 24 normal range.)
It's really a combination of nine risk factors that determine your chances of living to a ripe old age. Here they are with my guess as to how lightweight rowers should stack up:
Overweight - Hardly
High blood glucose levels - Fitness should help here
High triglyceride levels - Fitness should help here
High blood pressure - Fitness should help here
Low grip strength - Uh, all you do is grip an oar all day
Smoking - Good grief, I hope not
Not graduating from high school - Been there, done that
Being unmarried - Really? (Certain of you should ignore this one, and you know who you are)
Consuming three or more alcoholic drinks daily - Just as soon as you graduate... No wait! You're dry during the season!
1 comment:
Could you please not refer to being 155 as 'porking up'? While I'm a lightweight, not all of your readers are, and 155 is not unreasonable for a heavyweight woman at that height (or even shorter).
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