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I looked at some charts and then remembered what I looked and felt like the day I graduated from college in 1976. I'm there now and it seems like a good weight for a 60 year old!0
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How do you guys decide your goal weight. I set one but now as I get closer to it I'm thinking I might want to go lower depending on how I feel. How do you set for your I did it goal.
go based on body fat. Think of how you want to look based on a body fat chart. here is a general one.
Know your current body fat based on that picture. Lets say your goal is 17% body fat, and you're at 30% body fat at 185lbs.
You need to know your lean body mass.
Total Weight * (1 - bodyfat%) = llbs ean body mass
185*(1-.30) = 129lbs of lean body mass
Once you know your lean body mass. You use that to calculate your goal weight.
LeanBodymass/(1-(bodyfat%atGoal)) = goal weight
So you want to be at 17% body fat.
129/(1-.17) = 155lbs should be your goal weight.
That's pretty cool! I'm at 17% and will take 15%. I'll never get to the first pic unless I quit running and pound some roids, so no thank you lol.0
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