Do your friends really describe you as "Physically fit"?


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kettlebell99 is offline kettlebell99 Post #21  November 14,2011, 2:19pm
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ami1uwant wrote :
Whyo published this study and was it funded by Phillip Morris?
I like this thread. The five components of fitness are muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardio-respiratory endurance, body composition and flexibility. So a person could smoke and still be fit, even though their cardio would likely be lower than their true potential.
 
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Nanette is offline Nanette Post #22  November 15,2011, 9:49am
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naw i just get the evil eye (actually its more like a dropped jaw) for taking the dumbells that *they* want to work with. its sad, actually.... i mean sad for them!
 
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This is another one of those buzz terms people hook on like writing resumes. The word 'athletic' is often thrown in because of the currency it brings. I always say, 'don't tell me...SHOW ME.'

Many times I'll get a match with all this 'athletic like' description in text, but the photos are of bulky clothing for cold weather sports (I'm in So. Cal and this is in the Autumn, you'd think nobody went to the beach), white water rafting and she's buried in with twenty people, or extreme sports and she's a distant figure barely an inch tall.

People put this language in their profiles in the hopes of being given a chance. Problem is, not all results are similar to like activity. There are things like genetics, body frame and age. A friend of mine at work, his wife hits the gym three times a week, I'd never know it. If she were single, I could introduce her to a friend saying, 'Oh, she works out three times a week, 'and I'd be telling the truth. But, the image in our heads would not be what is.

This is the same as it is for anything else in online dating. We're at the mercy of the pictures and their self descriptors as they define it. Speed dating cuts through that instantly, the real stuff is live, in the flesh. It's close to real life there. IRL, you walk into a DMV, Post Office, supper market, anything, you see someone attractive. How often and if they hit the gym is not on my list of questions.
 
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ami1uwant wrote :
Whyo published this study and was it funded by Phillip Morris?
BMJ published it years ago and cigarette makers had nada to do with it. Smoking even in moderation isn't good for you, but statistically a guy who works out daily and enjoys a half-dozen smokes each day is much more likely to see fifty than someone obese.

I couldn't find the full article for free online--you could check your nearest university--but here's a key table that summarizes the results:

New study: obesity as bad for you as smoking? | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog

Normal BMI, non-smoker: baseline.
Moderate underweight BMI, light smoker: 1.31x chance of dying by fifty.
Normal BMI, light smoker: 1.56x chance of dying by fifty.
Obese, non-smoker: 2.15x chance of dying by fifty.

If you're obese, that's definitely worth working on.
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