Measurements

[Icecreammouth]

Hey guys…so the other day I was using Chatgpt and wanted a workout plan. I took my measurements and input them and the response I got was ….hmmm idk how to explain it….so I will ask: are my numbers really abnormal? I don’t go to the gym, no heavy lifting… I do the basics at home…I’m pretty lazy in that I try to just maintain unless I set a goal. So I’m 39yrs old, 6ft, 174lbs, 46inch back (shoulder to shoulder), 39inch chest, 28inch waist just chose to try and see if I could get it to 30 after seeing it drop to 31 last year)…but here is the part that had Chatgpt going wild. My standing hips are 40-41inches (more like 39 relaxed but like 40-41 after I do some lateral lunges). WHR is like .68 or .69 which is not normal for a male apparently. But Chatgpt made me seem like it’s cartoonish…lol I had to laugh but can anyone relate? Anyone 6ft with a 28 or 29 even 30 inch waist and 39 40 41+inch hips… where there is a 10inch difference between the two?

 

[JBD_Mikk]

First lesson is that Chat GPT doesn't actually know anything - it just regurgitates pattern-matched information from whatever is already on the web, so the results aren't really worth trusting.

Having said that - yeah, a waist-hip ratio of 0.7 is relatively small for a male, but so what? As long as you're not underweight, there's no health risk associated with a lower ratio - indeed a lot of guys would love to have numbers remotely close to yours! For what it's worth, I'm also 39 (though shorter at 5' 8") and with workouts and cardio my chest / waist / hips are about 38 / 30 / 36 (my smaller bone structure places a lower limit on my waist-hip ratio).

Ultimately I don't think size ratios really have much bearing on what kind of workout you do. It sounds like you're already starting from a healthy build, so I think a workout plan would be based more on what your goals are (muscle mass or strength vs. cardio fitness) than on what your measurements are.