Buns, Back, and Chest oh my!

Here’s something you’ve probably never heard: Get up, right now, and move. No I’m serious, get and move. Jump, get down to the floor, wave your arms, something, you can literally do anything at all. Did you know, the United States has an AVERAGE obesity rate of 35%? How the royal fuck is that even possible? More than one third of the population, doing some quick and amazing math which the US is likely around 20^th in the World (not terribly shabby), is somewhere in the neighborhood of 108,000,000 million people are currently obese.

Yes some of these people are athletes and carry around a bigger frame, generally fairly healthy, but that still leaves an impressive number of people that are obese. Let’s just round down to an even 100,000,000. That’s one hundred million people that are obese. That is an extraordinary number of people who currently carry a disproportionate ratio of height, age, and weight. Here’s the thing, while this number is startlingly and is a decent indicator of a major problem, it is also misleading. That’s right, misleading, but before we go down that rabbit hole please note: Once we start into a downward spiral of misleading we’ll soon be paralyzed by our own inadequacies and stare blankly at a wall waiting for our feces to become permanently caked on. So my quick rant about BMI (body mass index): It’s ok for a large scale reading of people, but on an individual scale it can become quickly distorted and that can become very misleading. Another (better) way to measure is your waist to hip ratio (under 0.85 for women, and under 1 for men), go to your doctor and have your vitals measured, or checking your body fat composition. Those three things should help you get a better understanding versus your weight on a scale, and your BMI. 

Needless to say the general view is that America is going backwards instead of progressing to a healthy lifestyle. So again I’ll say to you, get up right now and move. You want to start shedding those pounds, getting those eight minute abs of concrete and marble like some Greek Adonis? You want to melt away the butter and have buns that Superman would be jealous to fly away with? Then right now get up and jump. If you can’t get up, then spin around in your chair. Shake your hands, it only takes one little thing that makes you active. Before long, you’ll be doing two things, then three. Just get active, and stay active. Go.