A cool infographic

[taratru]

I saw this on FB today.  Thought it was interesting in terms of "what you need to do to step up your game" comparisons.  I didn't do any research about it, it just was...interesting.


www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean-infographic 

[wambam]

My nutrition coach posted this this afternoon. It's pretty on point with what we talked about when I was working with him. Though he was pretty adamant about warning me that getting super lean might affect my performance.

[shauni27]

Link says it is broken for me :/

[Deleted]

It's broken for me too. If anyone has it and can post again, I'd like to see it.

[chw57]

www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean-infographic

Just noticed this is the same link... Not sure why it worked! I googled cost of getting lean infographic

[emilyinchile]

Yeah, for some reason the link doesn't work for me either, but when I Googled and clicked through it was fine. Wait, I think the OP link has a space at the end, that's why.

And the info seems pretty accurate to me. I like that they include the trade-offs in socializing because I think that's relevant information in something like that, and I don't see it mentioned often.

[CallingAllAngels]

So, what percentage of body fat should I aim for? We are going to clean up our eating over the holidays, and I really struggle with "eh, I look good enough, pass the brownies." Since I'm not fat, I don't have much motivation to eat better. I know dropping 10-15 lbs would probably really help my running.

[ghostmonkey]

Nov 19, 2014 9:40:42 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

So, what percentage of body fat should I aim for? We are going to clean up our eating over the holidays, and I really struggle with "eh, I look good enough, pass the brownies." Since I'm not fat, I don't have much motivation to eat better. I know dropping 10-15 lbs would probably really help my running.

For a 20-40 year old female ideal is 21-33%.

[kams]

It always makes me a little sad that it's so diet focused. I will gladly work out more!


But then I want pizza and wine . Oh.

[ghostmonkey]

70%+ of your weight is determined by your diet, so it would make sense that it is that focused on intake more than workouts.

I prefer beer it my pizza. Both were delicious last night.

[CallingAllAngels]

Nov 19, 2014 10:57:33 GMT -5 kams said:

It always makes me a little sad that it's so diet focused. I will gladly work out more!


But then I want pizza and wine . Oh.

Word.

[chw57]

Nov 19, 2014 11:49:54 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

Nov 19, 2014 10:57:33 GMT -5 kams said:

It always makes me a little sad that it's so diet focused. I will gladly work out more!


But then I want pizza and wine . Oh.

Word.

Yep, and I would rather eat delicious carbs than have a six pack

[ktzmoh]

it's interesting how they have sleep on there. Sleep is a hard thing for me. I just don't know how to carve out more time for sleeping. Getting at least 8 hours of sleep a night seems so luxurious that it's hard to imagine.

[emilyinchile]

Sleep is my downfall too, ktzmoh. My H gets home at 10 most nights. I get home from soccer between 10:30 and 11:00 twice a week. I like to go to the gym at 8 am because that's when my crew goes, it works in my schedule, and my coach is there. The hours just do not work, and I'm not yet ready to give up my 8 am workouts, soccer, or speaking to my H for more than 5 minutes a night.