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The conflation of fitness and strength is common and completely useless. Like the other commenter mentioned, how many have permanent injuries? How many have gut
by nostrebored 11y ago
The conflation of fitness and strength is common and completely useless. Like the other commenter mentioned, how many have permanent injuries? How many have guts as their activity stalls?
Also I think most people looking at your lifestyle data would assume you were reasonably muscular and thin. You work out for nearly a third of every day.
I do agree that how they've quantified fitness is absurd. Having lived in Atlanta, it's a horribly unfit city riddled with obesity. Having a park near your house doesn't mean anything if you don't use it, and buying vegetables means nothing if you're using half a bottle of dressing to eat them.
- marcus_holmes 11y agoyeah, but how many fitness freaks have shin splints or herniated disks, or whatever that horrifying thing that happens occasionally to Crossfit junkies is called... It wasn't just strength; these guys could work hard all day, every day, with less visible effort. If that's not what people mean when they say fitness then (to quote) "I don't think that that word means what you think it means" - there's definitely a confusion happening here. I don't know how you would quantify fitness on this kind of scale with this kind of data. It's an interesting problem. But I guess my point is that I would certainly factor for people who do hard physical graft all day, and if they eat tons of cheap carbs and have a high bmi doesn't mean they're fat or unfit.