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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!

Well Im no body builder but I've run a half marathon in the past year.

66% of Americans 20 years or older are overweight (1)...so either the poll respondents are mostly overseas, the truly overweight gamers aren't responding...or gamers are lying (Gamers might be 'fitter' than average Americans too...heh).


I think you need to specify what is considered overweight, rather than just gut feeling. For example, at 185 lbs and 6 foot, I'm considered borderline overweight by a BMI index. Do I view myself overweight? Nope, I think I'm fit.....but survey says I'm borderline;



http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/



1. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm

my girlfriend assures me I'm not as fat as her brother

Thats what they all say...then they say its cute....then they leave hehe.

AgeOfEgos wrote:66% of Americans 20 years or older are overweight (1)...so either the poll respondents are mostly overseas, the truly overweight gamers aren't responding...or gamers are lying (Gamers might be 'fitter' than average Americans too...heh).

Again I'm going with 'cant afford an IG army and food'

legoburner wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:66% of Americans 20 years or older are overweight (1)...so either the poll respondents are mostly overseas, the truly overweight gamers aren't responding...or gamers are lying (Gamers might be 'fitter' than average Americans too...heh).

Again I'm going with 'cant afford an IG army and food'

TBH I think I need to just stop eating and save my money for the new Space Wolf Models.

I'm 16, 9 and a 1/2 stone ... and something like 5' 9" or close to it.

Anyone know what my BMI would equate to?

Oh yeah, I put average

Round.

Calculate your BMI here:

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

Im 6,1 and 250 and losing weight. So its only good.

5'10" and about 150 pounds. Smack in the middle of my ideal weight range according to BMI, but the smoking, drinking and junk food is still probably going to get me.

19.6 BMI

I wasn't lying.

125 Pounds at 5' 7"

Something tells me that most gamers are lying.

Maybe just people are surprised that we've got the whole nerd stereotype wrong as *shock* perhaps normal people do play warhammer/hobby games are actually fit? from what i've seen at my GW, very skinny people - but not a healthy skinny if that makes sense.

well being roughly 200cm and 88kg (yes, the metric system makes a lot more sense ) I'm considered "normal" but i do feel im unfit but rowing is slowly taking that away. lucky i come from a tall gene i suppose, and i come from Australia so i have to catch a kangaroo to go places...

Im 6' 2'" and 18.6 BMI

I make grass look fat.

The same stereo type that comes is that we are all week and not strong and not get out. Thats a complete lie. I can push 600 with my legs and bench 180. And the other one is that we don't play sports. Once again a lie. I play hockey, flootball and hacky sack.

athletic shape.

Mistress of minis wrote:Wow, all these 'normal' sized people must be out at the gym when I go to a LGS and see a variety of largish fellas extolling the dietary virtues of eating 10 burritos off some value menu


Honestly though, I think the aspect of having to stand around a table keeps the stereotyped D&D/MTG players away from 40k. If someone is just really lazy, they'll play something that they can sit on their butt throughout.

Come to london

Normal weight baby.

No sculpted abs but happy to go to the beach with no shirt on.

A bunch of the guys at my LGS work out together. Most of them are ex-military so they know how the whole being fit thing works.

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

I guess I could lose a few pounds.

Add 4" (to the height, hurr hurr) and that's me.

I am in the process of eating better. I've started eating more fruit, have started drinking diet soda, and am "attempting" to eat smaller portions. So far, so good.

Emperors Faithful wrote: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"?

I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

CT GAMER wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote: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"?

I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

For The Greater Good/The Empra/Great Justice/The ponies!!!!!!!!!

I put overweight because i'm a bit of a pudger, but i don't really look fat, just solidly built. That's likely going to change this coming school year as I will have a kitchen and not a meal card. yaaaayy.

I am pretty in shape/fit seeing as I am spend an hour plus each week hitting the gym lifting weights and cardio. While I am in no way a body builder, I did hit the 205 lb benchpress last year before I messed up my back. Not bad seeing as I only weigh 160 lbs. I am working back up to that and am currently at 12 reps of 185lbs.

i find the number saying they're perfectly normal suspicious for some reason.

me, i could stand to drop some weight, but i'm not to bad off.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Normal weight baby.

No sculpted abs but happy to go to the beach with no shirt on.

Yeah, I would too if it wasn't for all the body hair and the kids making wookie sounds.

CT GAMER wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote: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"?

I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

Yeah... That'd be just lovely...

</sarcasm>

lol

I'm about 5'4", 15, and a bit overweight. A bit shorter than most of the guys at my school, and I get tormented a lot about it because I'm not sporty like a lot of the other guys my age.

I'm a bit shorter than my mother, I don't remember how tall my dad was (I was only 7 when he died), but I think he was around 5'10", so I'd be looking at average height when I'm fully grown.

Then again, my brother was my height until he was 16, and now he's 6'6". My grandfather on my mother's side is also fairly tall.

Karoline Dianne wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote: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"?

I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

Yeah... That'd be just lovely...

</sarcasm>

lol

So says the "lustful cultist of Slaneesh"

malfred wrote:Round.

I was waiting for the "round is a shape", but this will have to do...

Anyhow, 6 foot, 185# or so - I work out, but could cut a few pounds


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CT GAMER wrote:I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

Given the number of fatties playing 40k and Fantasy, I don't think that the poll should be limited to females -- there are a LOT of guys that can validly respond to such a poll.

I think that a lot of guy gamers have bigger moobs than their girl gamer counterparts.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

malfred wrote:Round.

I was waiting for the "round is a shape", but this will have to do...

Anyhow, 6 foot, 185# or so - I work out, but could cut a few pounds


Automatically Appended Next Post:

CT GAMER wrote:I can't wait for the "Hey female gamers what is your cup size" poll...

Given the number of fatties playing 40k and Fantasy, I don't think that the poll should be limited to females -- there are a LOT of guys that can validly respond to such a poll.

I think that a lot of guy gamers have bigger moobs than their girl gamer counterparts.

Seems fair