Lance Can't Dance

[ornoth_cycling]

With nearly fifty international victories in a sport where body mass is a primary disadvantage, and his name enshrined forever in everyone’s minds as THE WORLD’S GREATEST ATHLETE™, you’d think Lance Armstrong would be one svelte dude.

Not so much. In fact, my body-mass index (BMI) is actually much lower than Lance’s.

At 165 pounds, Lance’s racing weight is exactly the same as my trained weight. Since I’ve got six inches of height over him, my BMI (a simple calculation based on weight divided by height) of 20.1 is significantly lower than his middle-of-the-road 23.7. At his height (5’10”), Lance would have to lose another 25 pounds to have a BMI as low as mine, tipping the scales at a mere 140 pounds!

And before his bout with cancer, Lance was listed as weighing 185, which puts his pre-cancer BMI at a stunningly flabby 26.5 at a time when he earned about 20 percent of his race wins…

Sure, all this probably says something about the shortcomings of BMI as a measure of fitness, but I’m not about to stop telling people that my BMI is 25 pounds “leaner” than Lance Armstrong’s!

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