How much should a 6 foot tall runner weigh?

Any ideas to help me lose weight?

It all depends on your body's make-up. I am 6'1" 152 lbs. and my lean body mass is 140 lbs. So my body fat is 7.8%. Based on averages your body fat is probably around 29%, but that is without an actual measurement. To get down around 15% body fat which is a good range to shoot for, you would need to get down to about 173 lbs. Although if you were looking to be an elite runner, you would have to be less then that obviously. Hope that helps, e-mail me if you have any other questions about weight management (I'm in the field).

Hurt calf or not, you would've put that weight on. It's called maturing.

im 6'2 and 180, i may be on the heavy end but i can still run a 1:16 half, the only difference is i have muscles.

Powerful runner wrote:

im 6'2 and 180, i may be on the heavy end but i can still run a 1:16 half, the only difference is i have muscles.

that's quite impressive, really. what's your marathon pr? I'm curious if it's comparable to your half time given your weight.

for the record I'm 6'0 150. When peaking mileage wise I get down to about 145 no further.

I used to be 210, fat drunken slob, started running to lose weight and really got into it. My assessment of the actual wieght loss, though, was that decreasing caloric intake was the most important factor; but now that I'm thin maintaining my weight is based on mileage, cause I pretty much each what I want (run ave. 70/wk, 32 yr old male).

Hey kmh, what are your PRs? How long did it take you to get from 210 to 150? I'm just asking because you have done basically what I want to do...

I'm 6'2", and tend to hang out around 175 lbs. I would ike to be a bit lighter (165 lbs. or so), but I'm running well right now. I've got a 3:07 Marathon PR, and was in around 2:55-2:50 shape last year until I got injured.

I'm ~6-2 and weigh 165 - 170. When I was a freshman in college I hit 138, then gradually moved up to mid 140s - 150 for the remainder of college. If I worked really hard at it I could probably skinny down to 155. I couldn't imagine being sub 150 at the moment. Maturation has quite a lot to do with some basic weight gain. Iterestingly, during my freshman year in college it took me about 3 months to work up to being able to do 10 pushups, I could hit the floor right now and crank out 25 eventhough I don't really lift weights all that frequently or practice doing pushups.

BigRUNNER wrote:

Any ideas to help me lose weight?

how many miles a week do you run? when i went off to college i was 5'5 and 125. after 2 months of higher mileage (in the 90 mile a week category) i was down to 108. when you overtrain, you're doing two things which will both reduce your weight. first, you're burning a lot of calaries... and second, when you overtrain, you lose your appetite. it's a bit of an extreme fix but it works. alternatively, you can cross-train some more on the bike or in the pool. i mean usually it comes down to just working out more if you're looking to lose weight.

1:11:55 half (philly)

2:34 chicago last year

I started losing weight in Jan 2001 and by Aug 2001 I was 150. As I said I believe I lost most of my weight thru dietary changes (plus ending my drinking habit(s)), because over this period my running (which I started in Feb of 2001) never exceeded 30 miles a week, and probbly averages 20 miles a week.

Despite my fat-ass initial weight - 210 - I am small framed and naturally lanky, so I tend to think that my weight was very un-natural and that I was more built for 150 than 210; I just had to change my lifestyle to realise it. In the process I discovered running (and thru it sobriety and my wife). You could literally say running saved my life.

My advice to you if you want to lose weight fast, and become a fast(er) runner:

* be ruthless in limiting what you eat - eat the same things everyday (variety is the spice of life and your body will always find room for 'new' foods)

* become obsessed with your running. I don't buy this middle of the road, sensible approach bs: you're trying to do something radical so you need to approach it full-on, no-holds barred. Be obsessive and compulsive. I've read 'A Cold Clear Day' about 15 times in 2 years.

* Unsubscribe to runner's world, it's simply full of fables, the human animal is capable is so much more. My favourite: > 40miles/wk 'causes' injury. I averaged 90/wk for 3 months for boston this year - no injuries to speak of.

I hope this helps, be interested to know more about your goals, plans ,etc.

"...when you overtrain, you lose your appetite"

Huh? Not me, opposite effect here. I hit peak mileage (140 mpw) and am more hungry then ever. Not everyone loses weight from just exercising more, believe it or not. There are many more factors then that.

1:11:55 half (philly)

2:34 chicago last year

I started losing weight in Jan 2001 and by Aug 2001 I was 150. As I said I believe I lost most of my weight thru dietary changes (plus ending my drinking habit(s)), because over this period my running (which I started in Feb of 2001) never exceeded 30 miles a week, and probbly averages 20 miles a week.

Despite my fat-ass initial weight - 210 - I am small framed and naturally lanky, so I tend to think that my weight was very un-natural and that I was more built for 150 than 210; I just had to change my lifestyle to realise it. In the process I discovered running (and thru it sobriety and my wife). You could literally say running saved my life.

My advice to you if you want to lose weight fast, and become a fast(er) runner:

* be ruthless in limiting what you eat - eat the same things everyday (variety is the spice of life and your body will always find room for 'new' foods)

* become obsessed with your running. I don't buy this middle of the road, sensible approach bs: you're trying to do something radical so you need to approach it full-on, no-holds barred. Be obsessive and compulsive. I've read 'A Cold Clear Day' about 15 times in 2 years.

* Unsubscribe to runner's world, it's simply full of fables, the human animal is capable is so much more. My favourite: > 40miles/wk 'causes' injury. I averaged 90/wk for 3 months for boston this year - no injuries to speak of.

I hope this helps, be interested to know more about your goals, plans ,etc.

ugh, apologies for the LONG double posts; major traffic jam/timeouts on the net here today.

when i over train i get hungrier. it's deadly.

hence...13% body fat. shit.,

Wow. My goals are pretty similar to where you are at, but I think my body frame is more of a 150-170 pound range and I am, right now, just thinking about breaking 3:00 for the marathon.

What is 'A Cold Clear Day'?

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I thought that because I'm so big it is better to only run 3 or 4 times a week. The idea is that I am putting more pressure on my legs, knees, and shins because I'm bigger, so I should give myself a chance to rest. Is this the right way of thinking, or not?

Should I stick with the 10% rule per week as I increase mileage?

Miles and Miles wrote:

"...when you overtrain, you lose your appetite"

Huh? Not me, opposite effect here. I hit peak mileage (140 mpw) and am more hungry then ever. Not everyone loses weight from just exercising more, believe it or not. There are many more factors then that.

Big difference between "training hard" and "overtraining". Similar for sleep: if I'm training very hard, I sleep like a log. If I have the misfortune to step over the edge into overtraining, my sleep becomes disrupted -- and, as the previous poster said, my appetite suffers. That's not a healthy place to be.

And for the record, I'm 6'0". Right now I'm around 133-134 lbs, post-workout I've been as low as 131 lbs in the past few weeks. That's skinny -- I used to be closer to 140 lbs when I was very fit, because I was also doing weights three times a week. Now I don't have time for weights, I'm just skin and bones. I feel it makes me more injury prone, but I find it hard to keep the weight on when I'm training hard.

Seriously, I think the emphasis should be on training hard and eating healthily. If you're doing that, you shouldn't need to worry about portion control. Moreover, it's easier to maintain those habits in the long term.

6'4" and I'm about 170, been down to around 165 and up to 180 when hurt. 31:36 10k, 69:42 1/2 marathon

BigRUNNER wrote:

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I thought that because I'm so big it is better to only run 3 or 4 times a week. The idea is that I am putting more pressure on my legs, knees, and shins because I'm bigger, so I should give myself a chance to rest. Is this the right way of thinking, or not?

Should I stick with the 10% rule per week as I increase mileage?

If, for instance, you are at 25mpw, increasing mileage by 10% each week would have you at 100mpw in about 15 weeks. Really think you can do this while you're still near 200 lbs? Some thoughts:

1) Fewer longer runs are probably better than more shorter runs. Long runs deplete glycogen stores and cause the body to burn fat. Maybe you can handle three long runs a week, each followed the next day by an easy, short recover run/walk. Increase by 3mpw no more than every third week.

2) Ease back on white flour, white bread, white rice, mashed potatoes, french fries, potato chips, froot loops, chocolate chip cookies, apple pie, and beer (except for an occasional Guinness). If your diet isn't all that great, consider taking a multi-vitamin and a calcium/manganese/zinc supplement daily.

3) Be cautious about nagging injuries. It's better to cut back on mileage and figure out what's causing the injury than to end up sitting on the couch for an extended period.

4) Don't think you're going to drop 40 lbs this month. Think about this as a two-year plan that will get you under 160 and ready to start training in earnest for setting a serious PR in a fall marathon in 2006 (e.g., Chicago).

'A Cold Clear Day' is a biography about Buddy Edelen, a marathon record holder from the early '60s.

KMH, i would probably die trying to run the marathon, the 1:16 was just ran on a lot of strength. I have no noticable fat but i am a lot bigger then most runners. I look like a wrestler without the gay little suit