Optimum weight
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- Created on: 11-01-17 15:02
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- Factors affecting optimum weight
- 20: Optimum weight
- Losing Weight
- Many people need to lose weight to reach their optimum weight. In some sports, such as boxing and horse racing, it is necessary to lose weight rapidly, as they need to make the weight they are fighting or riding at
- People who want to lose weight usually do so by:
- Decreasing calorie intake
- Increasing calorie expenditure
- Or doing both
- Optimum weight
- The definition of optimum is most favourable. A person's favourable optimum weight could be with reference to general lifestyle or a specific sport
- Most sportspeople get to know the weight at which they perform best and make sure they stay as near to it as they can. Optimum weight can be found using BMI index
- The definition of optimum is most favourable. A person's favourable optimum weight could be with reference to general lifestyle or a specific sport
- Body Composition
- The percentage of body weight that is fat, muscle and bone
- All these three affect a persons weight
- The percentage of body weight that is fat, muscle and bone
- Optimum weight in sport
- The optimum weight for individual sports people varies widely according to the sport; rugby and horse racing have quite different requirements
- In rugby a forward job is to use muscular strength and power to push in the scrum and tackle in defence. Therefore, optimum weight needs to be high compared to people of similar height
- A jockey need to be short in height, with small bone structure and a minimum amount of muscle. These factors result in low weight, which is optimum in this case.
- Many professional sports player and athletes know exactly what their optimum weight should be
- The optimum weight for individual sports people varies widely according to the sport; rugby and horse racing have quite different requirements
- Losing Weight
- Height
- Taller people are usually, although not always, heavier than shorter people
- Gender
- Men and women have different body composition; men tend to have more muscle and larger bones. Therefore men have different charts to find their optimum weight
- Bone structure
- Bodies have different bone structures, sometimes referred to as frame size
- Muscle Girth
- People naturally have different muscle girth which means that they weigh more
- Genetics
- Body weight and shape are largely passed on through genes from parent to child
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