Waist/hip is a crock, too, but a smaller crock

Really? How so?

Thinking on it, waist/hip seems to be harder to change (it is for me--mine's remained remarkably constant with a variation of about 50lbs) so it might indicate various genetic tendencies to ill health, but if you can't much change it, what's its use?

Do your guys's ratios change much?

Uh oh. I just found a dance studio in my neighborhood.

Something to save up for and treat myself to. Maybe if I do well this semester...

Really? How so?

It's not enough information. You get a more accurate measurement if you also include at least the neck and even more accurate with thigh and bicep added to the mix. The big problem is getting good measurements, especially for hip and waist. Everyone isn't shaped the same so the hip measurement on one person won't be taken at the exact same spot on someone else, same with the waist. It's hard to train someone to take them properly, so you get a lot of slop in the measurements. (Spoken as the Pysical Fitness Coordinator for a couple of different commands I was attached to.)

It's not the crockness of it, so much as the lesser crockness that I'm wondering about.

How do you factor the other measurements you recommend into the equation? My hip/waist is pretty constant, as noted, and I don't think my neck changes size much, but thigh and bicep vary wildly with my weight shifts.

My oven is fixed. Apparently the door was bent, so fix-it guy just bent it back. Then he asked me if I'd been letting my dog play on the oven door while it's open.

Um. No.

I've been tracking my waist/hip ratio (among other things) as my weight has fluctuated the last couple years. My weight fluctuation has been pretty much a matter of how much fat I've got on me, much more so than muscle mass changes, and the ratio definitely goes up and down with my weight/fat %.

Then he asked me if I'd been letting my dog play on the oven door while it's open.

My kids try to climb onto the dishwasher door when I have it open all the time. However, I do not let them within four feet of me when I'm opening the oven door.

I find that an odd question. Who plays around an OVEN?

I find that an odd question. Who plays around an OVEN?

So did I. I think he was joking. He's kind of an odd fellow.

This isn't quite so traditionally pumpy, but it's on sale.

Wrong color though-- I need navy.

Zappos doesn't have much cheap in that category.

Yeah. Kind of the problem I've been having too.

How do you factor the other measurements you recommend into the equation?

I honestly don't remember anymore. You added some to others and maybe subtracted somewhere else and then divided the two numbers. It was quite convoluted, which is why they went to just neck/waist/hip a few years before I got out of the Navy. I have no idea what they use now. I do know that men who were into serious bodybuilding/weightlifting often had to get special letters from their doctors because the neck just won't get that big and it skewed their bodyfat to much higher than it actually was, often putting them in the overfat or obese categories.