I'm asking this in order to give me an idea of how light I could be if I trained extensively for a marathon. I know there is a limit. I'm 6'2 to give you an idea, so what might the limit be?
And, If my intuition is correct, the heaviest bones are the ones in the legs?
18%
In bird it is 10%, with feathers making up 20% of body weight. Isn't that weird!
2 pounds per inch is a good rule if you want to be pretty damn skinny, so 148 pounds. What do you weigh now?
207
From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton):
"In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 30-40% of the total body weight,[1] and half of this weight is water."
So even if you get down to skin and bones, you'll still have some heft to you.
the only thing see about that is 30 to 40% of total body weight...but that's gonna change with fat or muscle loss and the percentage goes up. Exactly what weight are they referring to now?
I think the guy who said a pound per 2 inches is more precise than that wikipedia statement.