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I am a 6' 5" man with a very large frame. My BMI is bad, but I was looking at what my goals should be, and my fitness level weight is a terrifying 180 lbs. Is there a better way to figure out safe and healthy BMI/body fat %?

Hello all! I'm a guy from Chile. I'm 22 years old, and recently put on like 10kg of weight just from eating junk. I feel terrible about myself, I look in the mirror and suffer every day basically. Other things about me, I study music composition in The Hague, I play the violin, and I'm generally a music nerd. I've also posted before here, trying time and again to keep a fitness journal, but I'm terrible at it. I'm taking this as a wake up call to finally take myself more seriously in this, and try to make some progress. My current data is, at the moment: Height: 175cm (5 feet 9 inches) Weight: 75kg (165 pounds) (what other measurements should I keep track of?) I uploaded a pic, and you can see that although I'm on the "normal" BMI range, I do have a lot of fat around my waist, which is basically the root of my self-image issues. If I wear a t-shirt you wouldn't think I have this fat, because my face looks thin, as do my arms, wrists, etc. My goal is basically to have a body I feel proud of by next (northern hemisphere) summer, so by mid-june. I live by the beach in the Netherlands, and I wan to be able to walk around shirtless without feeling ashamed. I had a gym membership, but had to cancel it because I don't have enough money to afford it anymore. So now I'm trying to build a bodyweight routine. I found this, which I liked because I was trying to do parkour some years ago (I failed miserably), but I still love to workout outdoors and doing stuff with just my body. I also found this, because I realized that my body type fits the description of "skinny fat." So my workout for now looks something like this: I begin with the warming up posted by Steve on youtube, I'll put a link later, I feel a bit lazy to look it up right now lol Set 1: First exercise of the parkour vid (don't know what it's called) in 30 seconds, rest 15 seconds (I'll called it A) Second exercise in 30 seconds, rest 15 seconds (Squats in 30 seconds, rest 45 seconds ©repeat the whole thing 3 times Set 2: Inverted rows - 10 reps Last exercise of the parkour video (don't know what any of these things are called), 30 seconds Knee push ups - 10 repsrepeat 2 times, resting for a minute or so in between. I did it for the first time today, and I felt REALLY tired, like at some point I had to take a break because my head was feeling a bit light. But then it was OK and I continued. I need to track the amount of reps I do for the timed exercises. By the end I was exhausted and I couldn't do the 10 reps for the last set of knee push ups. Well, sorry for the long post, I promise the next logs will be more to the point. I hope to hear comments from you people! Hugs to all

Hello Hello to all my fellow soldiers! My name in real life is Yannick de Mol but my soldier name on here is Rab397. I am sort of a history nerd, i want to become a teacher someday. the reason why i joined, i have been trying to lose weight for quite a long time now and i gained a lot of knowledge but no support. That is exactly what i need right now Support! and i hope to find it here with my fellow soldiers. I am a karateka, so a martial artist. But my body is preventing me to grow anny further. At the moment i weigh in on 110 Kilo's with a BMI of over 30 and a fat percentage of 33%. I know what to eat, how to excercise i just need the support of people. As a way to keep track of my progress i was thinking about a weekly blog/vlog for certain people. If you are interested in supporting me by watching or reading my blog/vlog let me know. Goodluck to you all!

Hey, my name is Joseph and I've been lurking around this site for a while(been on the mailing list for quite some time), and figured it was time to introduce myself. Jumping into that, I have to say that sadly I've kinda wasted this summer, I told my self I'd improve at the start of it but have just fallen through on all of that. SO, that's why I figured i'd get back into it and actually tell people i'm here. Important info: - I have low motivation to do pretty much anything (I'm amazing at rationalizing the easiest way) - I don't want to be a really big guy, I'm 120 right now and If I had to pick one of your guilds I'd go assassin or monk - I will be going off to college in a few weeks so if i get can exercises that are doable on a campus setting that'd be great Anyway thanks for reading, glad to be here :]

My last 6 week challenge kind of kerploded with real life and busy-ness and school and work and all sorts of stuff. Started off great, petered out around the end. Kinda the story of my life. However, as January-February proved, I work VERY good with hard, solid deadlines. And there is a big deadline coming up soon: June 13th. (Also, I feel like a massive idiot, since I thought I had four weeks to train for this, and I have THREE weeks because they moved the date. Aaaargh.) It's a little over 8km, with tons of obstacles (and, of course, mud). My last race was a 5k, and I came in 9th out of 54 competitors, which is pretty awesome for me. The obstacles are a bit of a problem, though, since my upper body strength isn't all that great, and my sprinting cardio needs a lot of work. Consequently, I've changed my gym routine to: pull-downs, wall-assisted handstands, and sprinting laps. This sucks, and my shoulders and arms and back are killing me, BUT I am hoping it will pay off! The other big thing is diet. This is the most muscle I've ever had on my body before, BUT... it's also a lot of fat, and I bounced back almost 20 lbs after my fight. And not the good 20 lbs. The squishy 20 lbs. So with three weeks to go, it's back to Dolce-esque eating for me (lean meat and vegetables ahoy!) to try and reduce my excess. So here is just where I'm going to post what fitness activities I did today, what I ate, and my check-in weights to see what progress I've made there. Day 1 - Saturday, May 23rd 45 minutes at the pool while my daughter was in swim class. Laps, stretching, sauna. Ate a three-egg and piri-piri omlette, and then 1/3 of my daughter's burger and a Diet Coke at the Farmer's Market. Now on to more water! Arm soreness level: 6 out of 10.

Hi everyone! I just moved to Houston, more specifically North West part, and was wondering if there is any fellow member that lives near by. I go to the LA Fitness, Katy Freeway. If you live near by send me a post! I would love to meet you. AramisN

The title probably doesn't say it all, but basically it comes to this: I don't have the traditional "V" (or even straight) shape which you would normally find and certainly my hip width is bigger than that of my waist. Bit of a downer and never really found the cause of it. I am concentrating on Weight and Strength training at the moment and I thought about including a lot of wide grip rows to bring out the lats more and try and reduce how significant it looks. What about working on the obliques? Would this help or just make it worse? I understand that diet will be a factor (even if it may not be the sole cause) and it brings me onto a another point. Whilst I am looking to get more muscular overall, I understand that this means eating, a lot. Thing is, I don't want to fall into the pit of eat a lot of putting on more fat. Is it really too optimistic to put on muscle and lose fat at the same time? Is it too much to ask for or is it better to just bulk it out and then focus on losing the excess at a later stage? Thanks everyone!