There is no limit to perfection. This is especially true for standards of female beauty. Especially many young ladies are concerned about the question of what should be the ideal ratio of height and weight. To get closer to the ideal, girls torture themselves with various diets and spend many hours in gyms.
Nevertheless, not every young lady is able to immediately answer the question of how much weight should be with an increase of 170 or 158 centimeters. Here you will have to make some calculations. There are different methods.
What should be the ratio of height and weight
Honestly, the norm of weight and height for women is a very individual indicator, because there are many additional parameters. For example, someone has the so-called wide bone, while someone has a very developed muscle mass. To find out the ideal weight for height, all these data must be taken into account. Also, the measurements will be quite approximate for those who have not finished growing up (teenagers), as well as for women who are in an “interesting position”. In these cases, one does not have to talk about ideals.
How to determine your height
The first step is to correctly measure your own growth. To do this, stand with your back to a steep wall and lean against it. You must have at least five points of contact:
- occiput;
- protruding parts of the blades;
- buttocks;
- calf muscles;
- heels.
If at least one of these points you do not touch the wall, then you are standing wrong. In this case, the measurements cannot be considered completely correct.
Put an even bar, ruler or book on the top of the head and ask someone to draw a line at the place where the object touches the wall. Now use a centimeter tape to measure the distance from the floor to the mark. The result can be evaluated as follows:
- 150 cm and less - short stature;
- 151-156 cm - below average;
- 157-167 cm - average height;
- 168-175 cm - high;
- 176 cm - very tall for a woman.
What should be the weight with the growth corresponding to the measured, special tables will help you find out. However, such a result cannot be considered completely correct. The fact is that not every table takes into account all the necessary parameters.
Body types: what they are
The proportions of weight and height in women depend on many parameters, for example, on the type of physique. There are three types:
- Asthenic. Another name is thin-boned. People of this type have very thin, long and fragile limbs. Their height is usually above average. They also have a rather long neck, narrow hips and shoulders, as well as a small chest in volume. Asthenics most often have an accelerated metabolism, so they are rather thin. If people of this type begin to eat a lot, then the weight will increase very slowly. They say about such people: "a boyish figure."
- Normostenic - normal. These young ladies were most lucky, because everything in their body is proportional: the bones of medium thickness, the shoulders and hips are quite wide, and the waist is much narrower compared to them. The metabolism of this type of women is moderate. With normal nutrition, all kilocalories are completely consumed, but you should not overeat, since there is a risk of quickly ruining the figure.
Hypersthenic - wide bone. In this type of people, the bones are quite wide and massive. Outwardly, it is clearly visible: wide hips and shoulders, a short neck and legs, a massive chest. This type was unlucky the most. The metabolism of such people is slowed down, and with improper nutrition, the mass will be gained at lightning speed.
Since the norm of weight and height for women depends primarily on the type of physique, it is necessary to determine it correctly. This is pretty easy to do. To do this, you just need to measure the circumference of the wrist. Since this is the only part of the body on which fat is not deposited, it is quite possible to believe such measurements. So:
- 16 cm and less - you are an asthenic;
- 16-18.5 cm - you have a completely normal type of addition;
- 18.5 cm or more - you have a wide bone.
Foot length
In addition to the correct ratio of weight and height, for a beautiful figure, it is also important to have good proportions. Since growth mainly depends on the length of the legs, this parameter is also important. Of course, the length of the legs is quite difficult to fix, you have to be content with what nature gave.
Long legs are usually found in young asthenics or normal women. The legs should be measured from the floor to the protruding tubercle of the femur (if there are no problems with weight, then it is clearly visible).
In order for the figure to be considered proportional, the length of the girl's legs should be at least half the height. The parameters are considered to be beautiful, in which the length of the legs is more than 1/2 height by several centimeters:
- 2-4 cm - for hypersthenics;
- 4-6 cm - for a normal physique;
- 6-9 cm - for asthenics.
If nature does not pamper you with long legs, then this shortcoming can be corrected by the presence of high heels.
Age also needs to be considered.
In addition to these factors, it is also necessary to take into account the age of the woman. The fact is that the norm of weight with an increase of 175 for women who celebrated their fiftieth birthday, and for twenty-year-old girls will be different. This is due to the level of metabolism. The younger the girl, the higher he is. In accordance with this, the norms vary.
How to determine the right ratio of your weight and height
To do this, there are many different formulas and tables that take into account various factors. Which one to choose is up to you. To determine your ideal height weight yourself, you can use, for example, Brock's formula. The calculation will be quick, but rather rough. To do this, you just need to correctly measure your own height and subtract 100 cm from the result obtained in centimeters. This will be the desired weight.
As you know, the norm of weight and height calculated in this way is very approximate for women, because the calculation does not take into account either the type of physique or, in fact, the age of the person. Therefore, to correct the result, you can safely take away another 7-10%.
Ketle formula
Those who are interested in the norm of weight and height for women of a certain age can use, for example, the Ketle formula, which takes into account all the necessary parameters. The formula is not too complicated, everyone can apply it:
M = 0.75 x (P - 150) + 50 + (B - 20): 4.
All the letters here are intuitive: M - body weight; In - age; P - human growth.
To make an additional check, you can also calculate BMI (in the English version of BMI), which stands for body mass index, or in another way, the Ketle index. It is very easy to do:
IR = B: P 2.
The letters, of course, indicate weight and height, respectively, only in this case, the height must be measured in meters. Depending on what number you got, we evaluate the results:
- 18.5 and less - you have a clear weight deficit, you need to urgently gain a few kilograms;
- 18.6-24.9 - your weight can be considered normal, there are no medical indications for losing weight;
- 25-29.9 - it’s sad, but your weight can’t be called normal, so for good health and a beautiful figure, you still need to lose a couple of kilograms;
- 30–34.9 - you have obvious signs of obesity of the first degree; if you do not want to have many health problems, then urgently go to the gym;
- above 35 - obesity of the second degree; most likely, in the near future you will need the help of a doctor, since with such a weight your health deteriorates significantly;
- above 40 - you just need the help of a nutritionist, you can hardly lose weight yourself.
