Post your height to weight ratio

ratio of average American male- 2.60

........................female- 2.39

Average height for women: 5 feet, 4 inches; 163 cm. About 68 % are between 5 ft 2 in and 5 ft 7 in.

Average height for men: 5 feet, 9 inches; 174 cm. About 68 % are between 5 ft 6 in and 5 ft 11 in.

5 foot 3.7inches-152lbs5 foot 9.1inches-180lbs

moms b-ment is dry 24/7/52/365 wrote:

ratio of average American male- 2.60

........................female- 2.39

Average height for women: 5 feet, 4 inches; 163 cm. About 68 % are between 5 ft 2 in and 5 ft 7 in.

Average height for men: 5 feet, 9 inches; 174 cm. About 68 % are between 5 ft 6 in and 5 ft 11 in.

This is a nice baseline, now how about some runners?

Wow, I guess I'm fat. 6'3", 166...2.21

6'3" and 153-155, was 148 in college.

6'2 160, 4.4% BF if that makes it any more relevant.

I don't know where you're getting 51 kg because according to iaaf.org he's 66 kg, which puts him at 2.12.

Both Geb's and Tergat's are 1.9.

Mine, at 5'11" 150 lbs, is 2.11 and I consider myself 10 lbs overweight. Maybe iaaf.org is wrong. Idk.

5'9.5" 168 lbs -- 2.42 lbs/in

i'm 120 pounds and 5'9.5", ratio 1.727

145lbs and 74", ratio 1.95

I don't believe this at all, but Bekele's iaaf profile says he's 66kg(145.5 lbs) and 1.74m(5-8.5).

At 5'11" you consider yourself 10 lbs overweight at 150????

For the record I'm 6' and 185...2.57. Clearly not an elite runner but probably, curious to see how competitive my times are with others at a similar ratio.

At 5'11" you consider yourself 10 lbs overweight at 150????

For the record I'm 6' and 185...2.57. Clearly not an elite runner, curious to see how competitive my times are with others at a similar ratio.

I'm another 'big' guy @ 2.397 (175# 73").

I f***ed up...Wanjiru is supposedly 51kg and 5'4". I was just reading an article about Wanjiru and the Olympic marathon, and watching Bekele in the Brussels 5000, and got my guys mixed up. My apologies.

Anyway, I'm not buying Bekele being 5'8" or 145. Look at him next to Isinbayeva in the recent Golden League pics. Unless she is 6'1", he is not 5'8".

There's a guy on our team who's 6'5" and 165lbs. He's about as skinny as he can get. His ratio is 2.14.

I'm 5'10" and 145lbs. I could stand to lose another 10lbs. My ratio is 2.07 right now. At 135lbs my ratio is 1.92.

I'm not a mathematician, so I can't tell you just exactly why this seems wrong, but the type of ratio you're figuring out here seems to be skewed.

A larger ratio with a taller person seems to be closer to equal to a smaller ratio with a shorter person. For instance; the above measurements with myself at 135lbs and this other guy at 165lbs would put us in a similar appearing body composition, even though my ratio is 0.22 less than his.

...and she is listed at 1.74m, 65kg, the same height and nearly the same weight as Bekele. No way. He is more like 5'4", 55kg. Richards is listed 1cm shorter than Isinbayeva and 4kg shorter. That's at least plausible. But they are both at least 3-4 inches taller than Bekele.

On a side note, why do Russian women apparently have no problem revealing their true weight?

I totally agree. I have no mathematics background, so I don't know how to express it in proper terms, but a straight up ratio doesn't properly compare a person who is four feet tall with someone who is seven feet tall. There must be some kind of additional manipulation that needs to be done there.

Multiply by Pi, divide by Avocado's Number?

And before I get attacked by some chemistry nerd, yes, I realize it's Avogadro's Number, and it's not a Number anymore, but a Constant. It's a LetsRun joke, wrapped in a math joke, people, and I spelled everything right and used proper punctuation and grammar.

Lady, 5'9, 135. 1.957, pretty close to that magical "2" number, but I'm about 10-15 pounds overweight for running right now.