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No adult under 200 pounds should be in a chonky category
Could not agree more. People act like foy is a miracle (as if bam never existed) because he isn't a malnourished alcoholic like everyone else. It's especially absurd when you can squat 400lbs but some kid at the skatepark is astonished you can boost frontside airs because youre "so heavy". God forbid a man have some connective tissue between his bones
Gravity does exist and will use your weight against you . It’s obviously more complex than that but I’d say there’s an ideal BMI range that can attribute to you skating at your optimum level, no?
I get why anyone would think that, but if you think about judo players, olympic weightlifters, and ufc fighters it clearly has more to do with body composition than BMI.
Being overweight without sufficient muscle to stabilize and protect your joints can do harm to those joints, but just as equally, being underweight and relying solely on the joint tissue to negate all the trauma will destroy your joints.
All that said, being 20lbs heavier than when I was slightly underweight in college, I can ollie twice as high. I have far more power in my legs, core, and back than I did when I was just skin and bone.