"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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The weird/stupid part about the waist measurement thing is that they
don't
take height into account. If a guy is 5ft 8in tall and has a 32-inch
waist
he's good to go. Make the same guy 6ft 6in and I guarantee he won't have
a
32-inch waist. The tall guy will lose points in a fitness assessment
purely
because he's tall.

I brought this issue up and, according to an exercise physiologist in my
office, height and waistline are not inter-related except in the extremes.
In
other words, every guy between 5'-2" and 6'-5" should have the same
waistline.
In extreme cases like Shaq at 7'-2" (is he taller than that?), his waist
may be
larger, but not greater than 40". Not really an issue for most people I
know,
but I was curious.

I suspect the guy was parroting the party line. But look at the tables for
running and pushups/situps. There are some really weird things happening
there.

1. I can get 7.5 points in situps if I do 29 OR 30 of them in 1 minute.
But I can get 8.0 points for doing 31. Why doesn't 30 count as 7.75?
2. If I run the 1.5 mile in 12:00 I get 50 points. Then the "window" for
49 points is 12:11 to 12:25. Then, somehow the "window" for 48 points is
12:25 to 12:49. Huh? Literally none of the "windows" are consistent - some
are 12 seconds, some 17, others 24, even one of 39. And forget trying to
score 45 points on the run - in my table the score of 46 is followed by 44
points, with no window in between for 45. Huh?