Hey Col - if I might ask you a few questions - I'd really like to know what the health profile of a perfect physical specimen is.
So, what's your cardiovascular picture? How about your BMI? Resting heart rate? Blood pressure? Cholesterol - HDL and LDL? Blood sugar level?
How many minutes of aerobic and anaerobic exercise do you do, on a weekly basis, would you estimate?
I'm really curious about it - I'd like to know just how healthy I would have to be in order to make disparaging remarks about the fitness of the population of a country of >300 million people. Because if I weren't perfect myself, you see, I'd be opening myself up to remarks about my own fitness.
Not that I would ever do such an obnoxious thing.
For me -
So, what's your cardiovascular picture? Dunno
How about your BMI?
12st 7 pounds , 5 , 11.
Resting heart rate?
42
Blood pressure? Dunno
Cholesterol - HDL and LDL? No idea
Blood sugar level? No Idea
How many minutes of aerobic and anaerobic exercise do you do, on a weekly basis, would you estimate?
45 minutes cycling 5 times a week (commute). 1 or 2 games Game of football for an hour. 2 lots of upper body weights (lie 10 - 15 reps - 3 sets over 10 ish exercises), same for legs. Also about 2 * 15 minutes core exercises a week.
In winter tend to run a bit also, summer have a few more leisure cycles thrown in.
Bad habits - drinking - lots of beer. Ex smoker. Currently I'd say I was getting on to a stone overweight. It's unpleasant enough. Used to be maybe another stone bigger - but used effectively the 5 and 2 to bring it down. Have been this weight for 3 years.
Pinch and inch round the middle - unfortunately can pinch 2.
Diet - 4-5 days a week, eat healthily - plenty veg/fruit. Low sugar. Then weekened comes and its far more all over the place. Still some decent healthy stuff. A whole heap of junk thrown in too though.
I have eaten in McDonalds only ever say 10 times. To me age 41 - its always seemed a chavvy, uneducated decision.
The chippy or the curry house though!
