They can be as heavy as they want, but anyone with BMI below 18, will have to sit out until they make weight. Should be helpful and even the playing field.
They can be as heavy as they want, but anyone with BMI below 18, will have to sit out until they make weight. Should be helpful and even the playing field.
Having a maximum BMI of 25 makes sense. Having a minimum BMI does not make sense. For example, I have a friend who has run and her BMI has been under 18 for her entire life. She is 100% healthy.
Nice try fatty. Lose some wight and maybe you'll be a little faster.
1. BMI isn't that accurate in determining body fat for athletes
2. The last thing teams/coaches need is a bunch of naturally small women pigging out on garbage to attempt to make weight
3. The vast majority of pro female distance runners are really tiny and still healthy (take a look at the top women from the 5k, 10k, and marathon in the olympics)
4. Most coaches and athletic trainers can identify if an athlete is just naturally thin or unhealthy
Personally I think this is a terrible idea, but just for fun here would be the minimum weights:
4'10" - 86.1
4'11" - 89.1
5'0" - 92.2
5'1" - 95.3
5'2" - 98.4
5'3" - 101.6
5'4" - 104.9
5'5" - 108.2
5'6" - 111.5
5'7" - 114.9
5'8" - 118.4
5'9" - 121.9
5'10" - 125.5
Wuuut wrote:
3. The vast majority of pro female distance runners are really tiny and still healthy (take a look at the top women from the 5k, 10k, and marathon in the olympics)
4. Most coaches and athletic trainers can identify if an athlete is just naturally thin or unhealthy
A bmi of 18 is also really tiny, like 105 pounds for a 5'4 female. I'd give them a little buffer zone, I'd say a BMI of 17 which would put a 5'4 female at about 100 pounds. Anything less than that is just sickly looking.
Just because coaches can identify unhealthy girls doesn't mean they will do anything about it, we've seem lots of instances where they just ignore it and no one speaks up.
Sometimes you have to protect these girls from themselves.
Wuuut wrote:
1. BMI isn't that accurate in determining body fat for athletes
2. The last thing teams/coaches need is a bunch of naturally small women pigging out on garbage to attempt to make weight
3. The vast majority of pro female distance runners are really tiny and still healthy (take a look at the top women from the 5k, 10k, and marathon in the olympics)
4. Most coaches and athletic trainers can identify if an athlete is just naturally thin or unhealthy
1. That's fine with me, we're not talking about whether someone is jacked or ripped, we're talking about whether girls/ladies have at least a little bit of muscle or fat on their body.
2. If you set a low enough minimum maybe it's exactly what they need.
3. These aren't pro athletes we're talking about (at least I'm not).
4. And often do nothing about it; hence the minimum BMI requirement.
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ideer wrote:
They can be as heavy as they want, but anyone with BMI below 18, will have to sit out until they make weight. Should be helpful and even the playing field.
The only way to enforce this ould be naked weighins. Also, obviously men would have a similar BMI requirement and have to do the naked weigh ins as well. Hell why not make a naked slumberparty.
As another poster said, BMI isn't super accurate. I did the Bod Pod testing once (more accurate) and it turns out that I have a higher amount of muscle than the average girl my same height and weight. So, my BMI is less than what those basic charts assume.
And yes, lots of runners are naurally under the BMI and are totally fine. The exercise physiologist performing the bod pod testing actually said my body fat could decrease For competitive endurance athletic sake and that I would be just fine
No
Should a men's BMI minimum be included with this rule? If not, why not? Doesn't a male become unhealthy if they are too low? Or are men just invincible and tough.
Deena Drossin & Tegla Loroupe would not have been able to run per the info at the following link.
Not sure if this is tongue in cheek or not. Either way it is a good topic.
BMI of over 18 would likely eliminate 1/2 the field of elite runners.
Health wise you are absolutely correct especially for adolescent runners, forcing them to have a BMI over 18 would be wise. My daughter is 5ft tall and weights 80 lbs and has a properly calculated (not the cookie cutter version on the internet) BMI of 16.
She is an elite HS runner but she is also chronically injured and on the verge of Female Athlete Triad Syndrome (FATS). Her Sports Physician has mandated that for health reasons and proper longer term physician development (you know the women stuff so males do not apply) she needs to get her BMI to at least 19.
She's up to 18 now but guess what.....she is slower. Healthier but slower.
It's a double edged sword
You can no longer use the word FEMALE. You have to use the word Vaginalsapian.
I'd rather have a simpler requirement. All these calculations just give me a headache.
Just rate 'em. You know what I'm talking about. 8s and 9s can run. 10s are designated assistant coaches to hang out with me. Everybody else go home. They're losers.
In college our girls team had a BMI requirement. They weren't allowed to race (and maybe even workout) if they were under the required BMI. They ended up getting criticized for it as just having "required weigh-ins" when they were really well-intentioned.
It was a bit awkward to watch since the trainer would take their weight but not let them see what the actual number was as she looked in the opposite direction.
Terrible idea. Suddenly all the girls above the limit are pressured to get down to 18.00 or whatever it is set at.
I assume this would lead to behavior similar to what wrestlers, etc. go through to make a weight lower than they really are. Right before weigh-in the girls would gorge themselves on food and massive amounts of water, then throw up immediately after weigh-in. This is perhaps equally harmful to starving and dehydrating to get one's weight down, and seems equally unhelpful.
P.S. I am 5'5" and weighed under 100 pounds in high school. I did my best running in my early 30s at 104-107 pounds. I was not too light then, although I'm now 10 pounds heavier since I no longer care about optimizing my performance as a runner.
John Clendon wrote:
Should a men's BMI minimum be included with this rule? If not, why not? Doesn't a male become unhealthy if they are too low? Or are men just invincible and tough.
+1
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
