Feb 25, 2009 10:45 PM GMT
so...
Last night I decided to get my roommate to measure my body, for a record of the starting point of me beginning to train hard, and eat right.
I wasn't too surprised about some things -
arms are 13" (right is 13.25)
quads are 22" (22.5 left)
chest is 38"
waist....34.5"
what the hell??? the quads, chest, and biceps are where they should be, based on the last time I measured (over a year ago). I've had a little muscle atrophy since then, which is attributed to not working out much.
But apparently - the waist is a *lot* larger than I thought it should be. I normally wear a size 32 pant, though I do have some that are 33" - the ones I only wear when I know I"ll be tucking in two layers or more.
I measured the pants - most of which were somewhere around 34" at the waist.
I guess they build in extra in the pants to allow for room to stretch and so forth.
Where do you folks measure your waist size? By the tape measure, or by your jeans?
I'd like to come down a couple inches on waist size, which I'll do in the next couple months.
Last night I decided to get my roommate to measure my body, for a record of the starting point of me beginning to train hard, and eat right.
I wasn't too surprised about some things -
arms are 13" (right is 13.25)
quads are 22" (22.5 left)
chest is 38"
waist....34.5"
what the hell??? the quads, chest, and biceps are where they should be, based on the last time I measured (over a year ago). I've had a little muscle atrophy since then, which is attributed to not working out much.
But apparently - the waist is a *lot* larger than I thought it should be. I normally wear a size 32 pant, though I do have some that are 33" - the ones I only wear when I know I"ll be tucking in two layers or more.
I measured the pants - most of which were somewhere around 34" at the waist.
I guess they build in extra in the pants to allow for room to stretch and so forth.
Where do you folks measure your waist size? By the tape measure, or by your jeans?
I'd like to come down a couple inches on waist size, which I'll do in the next couple months.