Right Weight for Height

by Regina Grant, Fitness Instructor
(Los Angeles)

Right weight for your height

Keeping fit and keeping healthy means keeping the right weight for your height. Not a few would ask however, What then is the right weight for my height?

Even at puberty, the body will start experiencing physical changes which if one is not careful, can store either body fats or body mass which can either spurt or stunt height achievement. According to experts an average adolescent can grow as much as 10 inches in his or her puberty stage, before the final adult height is achieved.

According to health experts, determining what the right weight for your height is, should involve a computation of your body mass index or BMI. In the case of teenagers, it is not enough that you aim to gain or lose weight but also to place your weight mass in the proper places. Doctors who are tasked to monitor the weight gain of an adolescent will follow a formula for computing the body mass index, in order to determine by estimates how much body fat is included in a persons weight and height.

This information is very important to properly guide an individual whether the weight goal he has in mind is of the right substance or is appropriate for his height and age. So how then can one determine the right weight and height for ones age ?

Determining the Right Weight for Height Using BMI Calculator

Find an automatic weight and height calculator in the Internet. Simply input your height, age, and gender and the next step will reveal your ideal weight. However, you should take into consideration that achieving the ideal weight is not enough, because you have to deal with the issue of having the right amount of fat or muscle mass.

Fitness experts, of the American Council on Exercise, recommend based on their researches that a fit male should have 14 to 17 percent body fat, while fit females can have as much as 21 to 24 percent body fat. Male athletes on the other hand are expected to have only 6 to 13 percent body fat while female athletes should have 14 to 20 percent body fat.

Weight loss or weight gain, is a matter of developing the right eating habits at the age of puberty or adolescence. For older people, it is a matter of changing the lifestyles by replacing poor habits with habits that result to healthier outcomes. Diets or regimens observed to achieve weight loss are often only temporary. Hence, if permanence of weight goal is desired, a person should do away with temporary eating restrictions. Here are some areas which you should focus on, in order to achieve the right weight for your height and age:

Idle Time

Which is the time you spend inactive or not exerting any physical effort. In most adolescents, they are the moments spent on hours playing with video games, online chatting, gaming or surfing or hours spent engaged in phone conversations or text messaging. For older people, they may be the time spent watching TV, or lounging while reading a book and listening to good music which will all eventually lead to sleeping away most of the hours during the day. According to fitness experts, recreational or idle time or the time spent during the day not engaged in any physical activity should be limited to only two hours.

Otherwise, the calories you absorbed as a regular part of your meal will only be stored as unburned fat cells. If you want to achieve more mass and less fat, aim to burn more calories.

Exercise

This is the best way to burn calories and to build muscles. Exercise need not be fancy but simply means having more activities during the day. Walking for whatever reasons even by just doing house chores, which include climbing up and down the stairs, or walking the dog, gardening, mowing the lawn, walking or cycling your way to school, grocery stores or short distance destinations and other similar activities are considered as physical exertions or exercises. Not having any of these and having plenty of lounging time is tantamount to living a sedentary lifestyle often considered as unhealthy.

Food Intakes

Eat foods rich in fiber and those which tend to fill you up instead of eating high calorie foods. Fibers pass the stomach in order to break down its nutrients and will bind wastes and unnecessary products of metabolism. Foods rich in sugar simply dissolve and are carried outright in the blood stream to form and be stored as fat cells to provide fuel during physical exertion. The absence of exercises or physical activities will cause these fat cells to accumulate within the body.

Breakfast

Never skip breakfast being the first meal of the day. Skipping breakfast often result to eating more and loading more calories. This is one poor eating habit that should never be adopted. .

Having the right weight for the right height and age is a matter of having the proper lifestyle. It is a matter of utilizing the food as a means of sustaining the body to do physical work, hence less fat is stored and more muscle mass developed.

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