My point, Butch, is that Americans are generally so fat today, that they look at fat people as being normal.
When we went to climb Sequopias in 2011, the boys really wanted to eat some MEAT afterwards.
When we came out to the coast, they found a place called; " Big Bubba's bad barbeque".
They served HUGE platters of grilled , dead animals, adorned with potatoes fried in oil and one ( 1) leaf of parsley.
Pretty much my idea of hell.
Anyway, as you can imagine, the clientel was a bunch of hugely fat people.
At one time 3 girls came in. 2 were hugely fat, and the third was sort of prancing around, doing an" Ain't I pretty" thing, because she was maybe 100 pds lighter than the other two.
Thing is, In Denmark the 3rd girl would have been considered very fat.
That was when I realized how much standards have slipped in the US.
My second point was that I get soooooooooooo tired of the: " Oh no, we shouldn't exclude anyone from doing anything ,political correctness, that Kevin immediately came up with and now Patrick, too.
) bmi was over 25 then, but I was a friggin' beast. Most sports here in the us are based on strength, and hardcore cycled weight training is almost mandatory to be competitive. We are a fat nation, but male bmi is higher due to this in most cases of blue collar workers here ime. I was even asked by a laborer this summer how I could still be working as hard as I was, 14 hours in wearing bibs and a welding jacket, heat index over 100, with 20 min of breaks all day. While weight climbing is a detriment, it's far from a deal breaker for someone who does it on an intermittent basis, for himself. While he (or I for that matter) will never get to the production level of smaller climbers, it can be done. Furthermore, climbing isn't needed in all areas. Most tree guys here (Illinois) haven't ever even put a harness on.
