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So are gamers larger than average? Inquiring minds want to know!

I'm sort of Homer Simpson shaped. Always have been.

Yep, I'm skinny.

Always been skinny, working to always stay skinny.

I'm REALLY interested to see if there are any folks built like body builders who are gamers....I mean, just because, really!

Meh im not too big and not too small and thats the way uh huh uh huh I like it.

slice of toast wrote:Yep, I'm skinny.

Always been skinny, working to always stay skinny.

I'm REALLY interested to see if there are any folks built like body builders who are gamers....I mean, just because, really!

Vin Diesel plays D&D, does he count ?

180cm/75~kg for me, which is pretty average I would say.

I used to play WoW and my guild leader was a bisexual pr0n star. Don't go stereotyping us yet

I'm a space marine...sometimes i bang my head on your puny mortal doorways, my muscles are defined after a millenia of hard fighting and remember kids "if it ain't raining, it ain't training"

I think many more people would be overweight if it wasnt for GW's gracious attempt at preventing us eating by using up all our money on hobby supplies.

I'm pretty sure everyone is aiming for the "I'm not the stereotype!" when they submit their answers to the poll. I'm 95% sure most people are lying when most are "average weight" (although this really needs to be clarified).

I'm sure most people will fit into either the "overweight" or "underweight" category. A look at my FLGS suggests the overweights are the adults/extra late teens and the underweights are the 8-year-olds.

slice of toast wrote:Yep, I'm skinny.

Always been skinny, working to always stay skinny.

I'm REALLY interested to see if there are any folks built like body builders who are gamers....I mean, just because, really!

We have a few of those gym-guys at the local club...

I, myself, have yet to decide where to work out to stay fit. Working nights isn't the most healthy thing, so need to compensate. Leaning towards swimming a couple of kilometers 2-4 times a week. Should be just about right...

I would think people would be honest, no one is judging anyone for their answer. That's what I have always like about gaming we as a group will take anyone in.

I myself struggled with being underweight for the longest time till I started cycling every morning now I am at a healthy weight for my age.

legoburner wrote:I think many more people would be overweight if it wasnt for GW's gracious attempt at preventing us eating by using up all our money on hobby supplies.

QFT. We need some of those commercials. "For just ten cents a day you can give little Neckbeard a combo from the Sbarro. And he'll send you a card each month telling about how he lost to a seven year old playing Tyranids."

Are we going by BMI or is it just how you feel? just asking for the sake of being acward, as if were being steryotipical normal for america would technicaly be slightly bigger then some other places, (i bet this will ensue into a rather good argument soon).

Grammar AWAY!!!

Yes, we are bigger than the Ethiopians. I don't see your point, ye wee, wiry Scotsman.

<insert glare here> Garr....... sadly im "Underweight" according to my BMI, but thats not my fault... i work at a gym and have about 7% body fat, (thats low just incase you were wondering, most people usualy sit arround 12-15% with meny dependant factors).

Where was i? ah yes, bah, were fat too technicaly, but thats ment to be liver poisoning.... too much whisky!

I obviously put normal weight, but I might be considered underweight as well.....

Im not sure if i totally believe all of the testees...

I see myself as being quite heay but i'm bloody tall for my age so i'm kinda inbetween overweight and normal.

But yea, I find that in wargaming most people don't juge you by what you look like, it's mainly your personality and how you game. Not trying to say that the wargaming communtiy is the divine group that is ultimately flawless but we don't judge as much as some groups do. ^_^

Makes you feel welcome in almost any GW or FLGS that you go to.

Im an athletic build. 15 stone, and two meters tall.

Most gamers I have seen/played are thin, dont know what that is all about. They are generally not fit, but then again, what percentage of the population is.

6 feet tall... 130 lbs...

I'm underweight XD

My 'tight pants' are loose on me. lol

BMI: 30%; Weight:275; Height: 6'

I guess I could lose a few pounds.

Hmm, nothing that mentions Buff...
I'll have to settle for "normal."

Anyway, I don't know if this is true or not but, how many people are going to admit they are "morbidly obese"?

Two and counting, apparently.

So there are a few honest people out there, but what about the rest?

I have no Idea really,I'm 6'4" and weigh 260 lbs,but I'm fairly solid, alot of people ask me "what I ride" so I guess I'm built like a biker.
Of course it may be all the tattoos that give them that idea.

5"6 109~113 lbs hovering back and forth and it often determines whether i'll allow myself to eat more junk food xD

No Matter how many hours a week i cycle, and no matter how many press-ups i do, my body remains the same shape

Im over wight now. I used to powerlift back in highschool. Even set some records there, but I havnt lifted or even worked out in awhile lol. Beer gut now

I'm actually built like a space marine. 7 ft tall, 280 lbs. I lift small cars for fun and kick down telephone poles because I can. I also spit acid, and can chew my way out of a prison cell (it's been done twice).

Lacking other options I have to settle for normal. I would have liked an alternative like athletic or something similar.