[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Well, on going and getting specific information I learn I was wrong.
Now, on what is “acceptable,” that would be hard to say as differing people will have differing tolerance and opinions.
I had had the view that a good proportion was waist size of about 0.85 to 0.9 times the hip size. I had the impression, without having done the calculation, that the OP’s value was well outside this. I failed to actually calculate it, instead using the shortcut that I am fairly borderline in this regard, but even so when my hip size is an inch less than this (which is when overweight by at least 20 lb), my waist is up to 36" or more, so it seemed his condition was worse than mine. However, I should not have relied on a shortcut. I normally don’t. There is no excuse in this case, just a moment of stupidity.
In fact, actually calculating his value gives 82%, using the middle value of what he gave for hip size.
That obviously is not far out of the range I had in mind.
Going further, how valid was the range I had in mind?
It turns out that the Grecian Ideal – these being proportions of heroic figures in sculpture, thus certainly considered aesthetic at the time by the artists and generally considered aesthetic today, though not the same as in high level bb’ing, to be sure – has the ideal waist/hip ratio at… 82%.
I was wrong, and apologize. Thank you for following up on it, thus causing me to look at it as closely as I should have in the first place.[/quote]
Iâ??m marking this event, saving it as a jpeg, and will post it again if I ever disagree with you.
