Asian waist measurement

Hi, BBM gang,

In your June newsletter, @Jordan_Feigenbaum mentioned cut point of Asian male descent should be 37 inches, which is 3 inches shorter than non-asian.

Is it height related?

I’m 5’10’’ (average height in US?), 185lbs and have a 36~37 waist, should I be worried about my body fat at this moment?

Mo,

Similar to the non-Asian waist measurements, none of these are related to height.

I am not sure if you should be worried about your body fat, as context is important, but your waist is higher than we’d like for 185lbs at 5’10. This may be training related.

What waist would you like to see for a 5’10" 172 (down from a recent high of 176) pound non-Asian older male?

30-32" or so, maybe less.

I did a bit research, which I should’ve done before asking the question:o

It seems genetically Asian and fat does not get along very well. I have to lose some fat definitely.

For the last 6 month I’ve gained 3lbs, and based on my waist change, most of them are fat. My protein intake is on point, my sleep is as bad as always, my lifts are still going up slowly. So I’m going to blame my depression:roll_eyes:


Totally off the topic, talking about protein, is it possible for you guys to put your Whey Rx on iHerb? It is popular in China. Amazon currently only ship your powders to limited countries​​​​​​​

Would you have ideal trainee stay between 30-32 for lean mass phases to? What’s the best range for 5’10” non Asian 25-35 year old male to stay between ?

No idea. Depends on too many other factors to say anything with much confidence.

What are you doing for training?

Not sure about the iHerb thing…potentially!

darn I was hoping to get some parameters to stay in between, but I understand its a very complex question thanks for the help

Goal is to be strong, currently I’m running a modified version of press template (please don’t hurt me), here is my excuse,

  1. I hurted my shoulder somehow last year, and has not been able to press without pain. Upper body intensity is a lot lower than it ought to be, but I keep the volume and frequency high.
  2. All my lifts normally regress at the 5th week, so I start pivoting and peaking a couple of weeks earlier

I eat take out all the time, because of my busy schedule depression and procrastination, I have no motivation to prepare my food, but I eat 38g ON gold standard protein(one serving 31g has 2.5 leucine, so 38g should give me 3g leucine) 3 times a day

I’m planning to lose few inches of waist size, while bumping up my training volume and protein intake (I really need a higher quality protein powder), am I on the right track?

  1. I would try doing some sort of press/BP - even with machines or DB’s.

For the food thing, I would hire a a food prep service and have them send you pre prepped meals at a reasonable macro level. It’s worth the $$ to try.

I have no access to any pressing machines, and DBs/multi grip bar still hurt. For the last few weeks, I have done a lot of tempo work, that did seem to help

That’s a great idea! I don’t know why it has never come cross my mind

Thanks again for your good information, otherwise I would still think I have few inches waist size to grow without starting worrying

FYI, for the last three days, I’ve lost 1.5lbs body weight and ~1 inch waist size already, mostly water weight I believe, but a good start(?) nonetheless

Interesting. I would try to find something that doesn’t hurt and try that.

It seems tempo bench press is the only thing I can tolerate. After doing several weeks of that, my should pain improved tremendously.

I have been able to bench without pain since last week, though afterwards I can still fell some discomfort, or maybe it is just on my mind.

I haven’t overhead press for over a month, it hurts even without bar. Currently I’m doing some low incline tempo press with high rep range.

It’s much better than it use to be, I needed my wife’s help to take my t-shirt off every night initially after I got hurt (because of squat or bench, I cannot recall)

Hi Jordan,

If you have them easily on hand, can you give citations for these cut-offs for Asians? Thanks.

That’s good. It’ll get better!

If you were mixed race (1/2 Indian - 1/2 English) would you take the figure from the Asian side of the equation?