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Oddly enough, I only work out when Im unemployed. Probably because I have nothing better to do besides send out resumes. But I get jacked quick because Im on a pretty brutal training schedule.

Seeing as how Ive been employed some 9 months, Im just average now :(

5' 8" and 56 kilos (123 pounds), which makes my BMI 18.7 (less than 18.5 is underweight).
though I have the scrawniest upper torso in the universe, and legs like tree trunks... yeah, I'm odd.

 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!

I used to be when i was younger.
In Sheffield Meadowhall GW there used to be a staff member who was just like a marauder.


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 d3m01iti0n wrote:
Oddly enough, I only work out when Im unemployed. Probably because I have nothing better to do besides send out resumes. But I get jacked quick because Im on a pretty brutal training schedule.

Seeing as how Ive been employed some 9 months, Im just average now :(

Brutal workouts dont make you big Steroids do-natural trainees stay the same at best but more usually get smaller after the first few months of training.


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 IRPurple wrote:
5'3 and waigh 52kg..... hehe, but im a sprinter, so there goes my excuse, less waight means more speed(less to carry)

Er-no-sprinters have large explosive muscles (even the "slimmer" guys are all beef check out pics of Linford Kristie) distance runners on the other hand are spindly and pathetic looking.
Assuming you are male then even at your tiny hight you are well under muscled.


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khornydakkadude wrote:
I wonder how many people put normal weight and there really overwieght or obese...

Bodyweight is a poor indicator for fat -check out Marius Pudzernouski in his strong man days 6ft tall about 320-340 with abs out.

 Lukus83 wrote:
I'm overweight...always have been since going to uni. Trying to lose it now though. Stopped having McD's for breakfast, I walk between my schools instead of grabbing a taxi, we have homemade dinners instead of takeaways now, etc.


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oh yeah, Im just under 6' and 80 kg. Trying to get down to 70-75.

Lol you may be too fat (i cant see you) but weight wise you are small for height.
He`s 6ft.


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 IAmTheWalrus wrote:
I'm 6'6" and 260, so according to my job standards I'm overweight, so that's what I voted. But I do balanced workouts 8 times a week and don't have too much of a belly, so I'm not sure exactly where I fall.

If you can recover from 8 workouts a week you arnt working out. Also check out Dominic Philiou hes 6ft5 or 6 and recently lost weight to get to 380 hes not fat.


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 CajunMan550 wrote:
I'm bout 155 I work out quite often. Lets just say my body type is nothing like the other gamers haha. I am in pretty good shape and if you met me on the street probly wouldn't think I played alot of Warhammer.

Yeh, stick shaped.


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I plumped for Average Weight.

Mind you, according to some Doctors, my hefty frame (I'm 6'3") should be weighing around 12 stone. To which I say nonsense. I'm around 15, with only a smallish belly on me.

So yeah, arguably overweight, but without appearing to be fat. Hence, average.

My mate at the Gym is 6ft 3 and is 21.5 stone -you sir are a bag of bones.

Surely this is the ideal bodytype for male gamers.

I'm very skinny. Almost 2 meters tall and only about 60kilos.
I've got a super high metabolism. I'll burn over 3000 calories just sitting around playing videogames or painting models.

 bibblles wrote:
I'm very skinny. Almost 2 meters tall and only about 60kilos.
I've got a super high metabolism. I'll burn over 3000 calories just sitting around playing videogames or painting models.

PROBABLY NOT
Most people who think they have a high metabolism dont, there is a lot of rubbish perpetuated by media particularly TV regarding metabolic rate.
A fast metabolism actually referes to how long it takes food from being injested via the mouth to being passed at the other end.
EG a man starts out going for a Number 2 once per day-12 months into a fitness programme he goes 3 times a day-this is because regular exercise burns more calories and encourages more frequent eating (ideally a health digestive system should work like a conveyor belt , so for every meal in there should be waste out the other end).
Its about YOUR relative metabolic rate-if you have one dump per day or even every other-you will be sluggish and slow and all the fat in your food will have a chance to be absorbed-if like a body builder you eat say minimum 5 times per day you force food through your system more quickly (also helped by more fibre in the diet) which means more frequent dump and less chance for the body to digest fat (fat takes minimum 2-3hrs often 4+, protien no more than 60-90mins complex carbs (eg rice) 30min-2 hrs simple carbs=sugars a few mins some even absorbed in the mouth almost instantly.
We all know people who say they can eat anything and not gain weight-this is often untrue as they have a very small appettite and eat few proper meals subsisting on low protein snack foods that if added to a normal food intake would probably mean weight gain.
The most common truth behind people claiming fast metabolism is that they have poor digestion-they eat food but only properly digest a fraction of it =weak ,low muscle body and expensive poo.
Also remember calories are defined by food being BURNED in a lab-this is not how the human body uses food-no one digests 100% of food that they take in and the way an individual processes fat and carbs varies massively from one individual to another.
Persons with certain nervous conditions can end up using more calories due to involentary actions (nervous Tick) and many forms of mental stress can cause the brain to use a lot more energy than is normal.

In short -if you dont poop a lot (often-rather than one big dump) you dont have a fast metabolism you are just skinny.

jprp wrote:

 bibblles wrote:
I'm very skinny. Almost 2 meters tall and only about 60kilos.
I've got a super high metabolism. I'll burn over 3000 calories just sitting around playing videogames or painting models.

PROBABLY NOT
Most people who think they have a high metabolism dont, there is a lot of rubbish perpetuated by media particularly TV regarding metabolic rate.
A fast metabolism actually referes to how long it takes food from being injested via the mouth to being passed at the other end.
EG a man starts out going for a Number 2 once per day-12 months into a fitness programme he goes 3 times a day-this is because regular exercise burns more calories and encourages more frequent eating (ideally a health digestive system should work like a conveyor belt , so for every meal in there should be waste out the other end).
Its about YOUR relative metabolic rate-if you have one dump per day or even every other-you will be sluggish and slow and all the fat in your food will have a chance to be absorbed-if like a body builder you eat say minimum 5 times per day you force food through your system more quickly (also helped by more fibre in the diet) which means more frequent dump and less chance for the body to digest fat (fat takes minimum 2-3hrs often 4+, protien no more than 60-90mins complex carbs (eg rice) 30min-2 hrs simple carbs=sugars a few mins some even absorbed in the mouth almost instantly.
We all know people who say they can eat anything and not gain weight-this is often untrue as they have a very small appettite and eat few proper meals subsisting on low protein snack foods that if added to a normal food intake would probably mean weight gain.
The most common truth behind people claiming fast metabolism is that they have poor digestion-they eat food but only properly digest a fraction of it =weak ,low muscle body and expensive poo.
Also remember calories are defined by food being BURNED in a lab-this is not how the human body uses food-no one digests 100% of food that they take in and the way an individual processes fat and carbs varies massively from one individual to another.
Persons with certain nervous conditions can end up using more calories due to involentary actions (nervous Tick) and many forms of mental stress can cause the brain to use a lot more energy than is normal.

In short -if you dont poop a lot (often-rather than one big dump) you dont have a fast metabolism you are just skinny.

As a multi-poop a day guy who constantly gets looked at and people claiming that is just wierd, THANK YOU for a source other then me trying to set the record straight. And this is something obtained through activity, and a gamer/painter CAN obtain this if they are the type that is always jumping up, making a scene everytime they get killed, or have to change they're position they are sitting in every 2 mins and are tapping their toes like they are hitting a bass drum pedal while they paint. Skinny does not = healthy metabolism, longer life expectancy. It may just mean you have a severe lack of muscle mass, and low density bones (thin woman in particular have the latter as a common problem).

But then the same also goes for thick muscle heads being "healthy". Even drug free ultra-muscular men have a shorter life expectancy them average. It's about as much strain on the heart pumping blood through a 350-lb body-builder as it is pumping it through a fat guy. There is just often a bit less cholesterol blocking the way

It's just nice to see someone set the record straight.

Glad to be of help, i used to be a bit of a Nutrition encyclopedia but ive forgotten more than i remember now but it still felt good to have a little rant.

I'm normal. Or at least I think.
Dunno.

Your poll could do with a "Close to being slightly overweight" option, tbh.
Slowly loosing weight though

6ft 1 and 150lbs. idk?

I'm 6 feet tall and pushing 235 lbs. however things were not always thus. I used to be 200-205 lbs. but then I got married, kept being fed pasta and stuffed cabbage and the wife is now pregnant so I look like a football defensive lineman now rather than a quarterback.

But my minis still look great and by golly that's all that matters!

Is this BMI or is this "my mom think's I'm chubby"?

Well, I'm 13 and weigh around 120 pounds. I'm hoping this is normal...

 Squiddy wrote:
Well, I'm 13 and weigh around 120 pounds. I'm hoping this is normal...

At your age if your belly doesnt cover your nuts dont worry about it, hormones will radically change you over the next few years. (and weight without height makes it impossible for us to judge you anyway).

6'3" and about 11.5 stone. Just about underweight here, but meh. One of my friends described me as a walking skeleton.

 4oursword wrote:
6'3" and about 11.5 stone. Just about underweight here, but meh. One of my friends described me as a walking skeleton.

More Elf than Marauder.

5-10 185 pounds work out when i can. Called chubby but mostly stalky. I have a beer gut a little one.

5-10 Bout 200 pounds

Im fat :(

I can still see my belt buckle. Some people have 6-pack abs - I have keg abs...

 ciaotym wrote:
I can still see my belt buckle. Some people have 6-pack abs - I have keg abs...

I loled at that, then looked down and was disapointed....

I look like one of my plague marines.

Is the idea of a muscular gamer so insane that you wouldn't put that as an option? I feel so weird now.

^ This. I'm an ultra runner and triathlete in the military. 5'4" 142lbs with 385lb deadlift. My wife the Eldar player is 5', 85lbs at the most.

 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!

not built like a body builder, but more of a power lifter/strongman type build... I mean, I aint skinny, and I put overweight (because due to US Army, and US Government metrics I am) but I am fairly well athletic and get more time playing Rugby than I do TT games.

Technically "overweight" but it is in muscle. (go to the gym a lot, father was a bodybuilder/personal trainer)

The options aren't really shapes... Shapes would be
Thin
Regular build
Athletic
Built/HUUUUGE
Pot bellied/tubby
Obese
Morbidly obese


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And/or short/tall/average

There wasn't really an option here for me...

I'm 6 feet 6 inches and 210 pounds...I really stand out at gaming events as I'm usually the biggest and most athletic person there.

Most of the wargamers I know are not fat as per the stereotype, but very small, or underweight.

 changerofways wrote:
There wasn't really an option here for me...

I'm 6 feet 6 inches and 210 pounds...I really stand out at gaming events as I'm usually the biggest and most athletic person there.

Most of the wargamers I know are not fat as per the stereotype, but very small, or underweight.

No hate here but that is massively underweight, if you were 5ft 8 that could be considered athletic but at your height you would need to be over 300 pounds.