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I guess my true "waist" is 32", but I wear 34" pants/shorts b/c I like them to sit a little lower on my hips. If I'm doing more powerlifting moves and sprinting my ass gets higher and makes my pants tighter around the "waist". This is while maintaining a good six-pack with a vein of two popping on my waist. If I switch to distance running more often and stop the power moves, after about a month my pants/shorts are sliding off of me! I also find that doing power moves tends to cause some abdominal distension in me (pushing out of the abdominal wall) which can cause my waist size to get bigger if I don't really control my abs throughout the movements (easier said than done on heavy deadlifts/squats).
Does this mean that C/D Fitness board is filled with the likes of dudes like Mariusz Pudzianowski
If yes, that's impressive. Message boards give fatties the greatest venue to hide behind their computers and justify their over 32 waists. Everybody is a work in progress, and I get that, boys. But let's not beat around the bush and disqualify the rule based on a few athletic exceptions.
I'm with Lao on this. An average dude cannot say, I'm a size 34 and I am "not" overweight.
How big do you think Mariusz' waist would be if he had the same bodyfat level and "normal" muscle mass?
I never claimed the board is full of guys like Pudzianowski - YOU made the claim that "anything over 32 is overweight". I'm certain I can find lots of other examples of people that have bigger than 32" waists and are not overweight.
I wear size 36", am I overweight? I'm in the red shirt with the barbell.
Let's take the men's clothing stores. Waist 32s are the first ones that disappear the fastest, as that is the optimal size for healthy men. I swear I hear this from every attendant working inside that they have everything but 32.
Let's take the men's clothing stores. Waist 32s are the first ones that disappear the fastest, as that is the optimal size for healthy men. I swear I hear this from every attendant working inside that they have everything but 32.
Nothing Asian about shopping in America.
i didn't even know i carried an asian card.
i'd say that for most american men, a guy with a 34 waist is probably healthy, a guy with a 36 waist is probably overweight. We'd have to look at statistics to answer that one. on the individual level i'd say it depends on a hell of a lot more details than just waist size... cholesterol, blood pressure, body fat %, bone density, lung capacity.... etc...
I've been as high as 40 but currently wearing 36's that are loose. A couple more weeks and I should be down to 34's. For my body type 34's are about right. If I was at 32 I'd look awful skinny.
Pants size and fatness is a moot comparison for most men anyway. The belt-line is usually just over the hip bones, and the majority of a fat gut can rest outside of the pants. The only time you see men wearing huge-waisted pants are those who are wear their pants up around their belly buttons (morbidly obese folks, out-of-style farmers, and circus-freaks).
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