Body Measurements - How do you and your mate match up? (1 Viewer)

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US CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)
National Center For Health Statistics (NCHS)
Body Measurements
(Data are for the U.S.,1999-2002)


Measured average height, weight, and waist circumference for adults ages 20 years and over

Men:
Height (inches): 69.3
Weight (pounds): 190
Waist circumference (inches): 39.0

Women:
Height (inches): 63.8
Weight (pounds): 163
Waist circumference (inches): 36.5

REF: N C H S - FASTATS - Body Measurements

I'm three inches taller, 30 pounds heavier, but my waist is an inch smaller.

Wifey is 9 inches taller than...her weight and waist size are classified information on an need-to-know basis. :hihi:
 
39 and 190? That's the average for someone my height?
Jeez.
 
ME:
Height: 74"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Waist: 33 or 34"

Ole' Lady
Height: 60"
Weight: 97 lbs.
Waist: ? size XS or 0/1
 
I don't think that chart is fair, considering that me and Wifey are in our 50s. ;)

When I married her, she was 38-26-38. Twenty-seven years and four kids later, the numbers are...uh...rearranged a bit.

Women will be quick to point out that it's my fault too, of course. :hihi:
 
Wow thanks for making me feel worse today Dads. Wife comes in taller narrower and lighter. Me on the other hand....I am a week into my training for a 5k run which will hopefully bring me back towards average.
 
I have a hard time believing that a 39 inch waist is average. I'm 6'3'', 240 and wear a 40, which is larger than the majority of people that I know.
 
Yeah 39 inch waist seems on the high side.

I am 71 inches, 193, 34-36 waist
Wife is 66.5 inches, 140, 30 waist (just gave birth 8 weeks ago)
 
I have a hard time believing that a 39 inch waist is average. I'm 6'3'', 240 and wear a 40, which is larger than the majority of people that I know.

The size jeans is not the same as waist size as I recently learned.

5 10 240 size 38 jeans size 44 waist

5 0 98 xs and tiny
 
Neither of us is anywhere near those obscene averages for weight or waiste size. Americans = lazy slobs apparently. :shrug:

/used to be the home of the size zero woman; now getting size 1-2. :17:

TPS
 
I have a hard time believing that a 39 inch waist is average. I'm 6'3'', 240 and wear a 40, which is larger than the majority of people that I know.

These kind of statistics are more easily skewed on the high side than they ever could be on the low side.

It only takes one guy like this to take a dozen 34" waists and make the "average" 39.
 
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