Weight issue? Not sure....?
Performance-wise...get as light as possible without losing strength or health.
Are you a guy or a girl? Girls need to have more body fat than guys do to be healthy. An online calculator isn't going to be very accurate, but an easy way too tell is if you have flabby stuff where you don't want to have it. If you decide that you DO want to lose weight, the best (and safest) way is to figure out your basal metabolic rate and how much you burn working out, then create a diet (all the normal food you eat already....assuming that you're eating healthy) that's at a 500 calorie deficit.
If that's too tricky, just eat so that you always feel slightly hungry, but don't starve yourself. If you get sick, you're not eating enough. If you don't lose weight, you're eating too much. Be careful not to lose more than 1-2 pounds per week.
Good Luck!!
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-Matt
Not fast enough.
To answer your question, I'm a female. Not hearing that this was necessarily completely out of range is encouraging, but I'm also taking your advice on BMR more to heart.
I think I'm going to try to rid of the flab by changing things up a bit by first increasing my time on the bike (as I seem to suffer the fewest injuries here).
Thanks again!
Another helpful trick is to eat more but smaller meals to loose weight. The opposite holds true to gain weight. Currently I try and eat about 6-8 meals per day, though some of those "meals" are just a handful of peanuts or almonds and a handful of raisins or soemthing like that.
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Some other tri-bloggers and I are part of a Virtual Fat Camp where we're sharing our successes and failures in getting down to "racing" weight. You can contact me offline if you'd like and I'll send you the URLs.
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Hey there-
For the last few months, I've been gradually building back up to heavier training hrs (after a minor knee/foot injury that limited my hrs in the fall/early winter). In assessing the whole situation, I'm looking at the scales and am wondering if 5'9"-5'9.5" @ 170 lbs is cause for any major concern. I did a measure of body fat % using this online tool at healthcentral.com and got around 17%, but don't know how accurate that is for me....but am wondering if I there is any hard-fast rule to lose/gain for better performance and avoiding injury.
I appreciate any insights.
Thanks!
-Nose