Years Ago I Weighed 220 Pounds at 6’1”.
Bigger, brawnier, more muscled, but 220 pounds
was a fool’s gambit.
I liked being bigger, stronger, more muscular, and
maybe it was ego driven.
As an ectomorph who weighed 170 pounds in high school,
I was walking around with too much weight, too much
body fat.
A risky fool’s gambit packing that much weight on a body type and heart not designed for it, even with working out.
Over the years, I gradually whittled my body weight down through working out and exercise bike riding. Now at 80, I weigh the same I did in high school.
Sadly, I no longer have the muscle mass I had at 220,
and I’m at an age when what was left is mostly gone, Sarcopenia,
a common fate as one grows older.
But a 170 pound body with far less body fat on a still 6’1” ectomorph
is a better safer weight for an aging heart to handle.
Bob Boyd