What’s Your “Maximum Weight Limit?”
September 28th, 2009
These are nice round numbers that people can easily remember: 5-feet, 9-inches tall, 175 pounds for a man; and 5-feet tall, 125 pounds for a woman.” Using the preceding, men add or subtract 5 pounds for every inch taller or shorter than 5 feet, 9 inches. Women do the same, but use 4.5 pounds because of less muscle mass. So – if you are 5 feet, 7 inches tall, a man, and weigh 175 pounds, your Maximum Weight Limit should be 165 pounds. A woman 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds has a Maximum Weight Limit of 143 pounds -BMI Made Simple Using Maximum Weight Limit
MY COMMENT: I’m all for simplification, but there is always SOMEBODY with a unique body structure that just won’t fit- same as BMI. So at 5’7″ my MWL is 165.
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