What Is My BMI?
What is my BMI?
BMI or “body mass index” is a scale that uses height and weight to estimate whether you are:
Underweight
Healthy Weight
Overweight
Obese
Limitations of BMI
Before I go further, I want to include a disclaimer about BMI.
BMI is one of my biggest pet peeves in the world of health and wellness - while height and weight can give us a VERY rough estimate of how healthy a person is based on their weight, it has significant limitations.
What Is Body Composition?
A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a client about her body weight and the diet she recently started. She said that she is on a mission to get skinny again, and has noticed that she is about 10 lbs above what she used to consider heavy.
As her trainer, I am helping her to accomplish two things:
Return to surfing and skiing after an ACL injury (without surgery)
Become as happy, confident, and free in her body as she can possibly be
After hearing her talk about her goals for weight loss, I wanted to help make sure she understood that adding or maintaining weight is not always a bad thing.
8 Considerations For Playing Sports Through Pain Or Injury
This Sunday was the opening day for baseball season in my 30 and over Harford County men’s league. It was a chilly, shady, windy, 44 degree morning - there’s no better way to start baseball season in the north east!
Thanks to a combination of lifting weights, cardio work, sauna, and signal training, my body was feeling the best it has in a long time heading into the game.
The game started easily enough with a quick 1, 2, 3, inning before my team, the Cubs, came to bat. Our leadoff hitter reached base before I stepped up to the plate for my first at bat of the season.
On a 2-2 count, I hit a ground ball deep in the hole at second base and took off sprinting down the line. As I’m approaching first base, I realize the first baseman has his foot covering a decent bit of a bag (he isn’t supposed to do that!) and a collision is imminent.
I reach for the bag and trip over him, tumbling to the ground. My shoulder hits the ground with an immediate spike in pain, but I’m back on my feet in no time.
“We’re good to go, nothing hurt,” I think to myself.
Two or three pitches pass before, and I take off to steal second base.
“Whatttt?” I think in my head. My shoulder does not want to move!