[BULK] - Re: [pct-l] Pack weight to body weight ratio...

[kraig.mottar at verizon.net (Kraig Mottar)]

But, according to the formula, I who is 6'3" and weigh  200 lbs, weighed 220 a few months ago before I started working out, should carry 100 lbs. Is this correct? But if someone with any ammount of will lose that body fat after hiking for a while, thus messing up the scale of how much can be carried. Though, if one is able to go to say, 250-300 lbs with no to very little body fat would increase the amount they can carry, correct?

Kraig

> From: "Mike Saenz" <msaenz@mve-architects.com>
> Date: 2005/01/05 Wed PM 03:18:39 PST
> To: "Mark Verber" <verber@gmail.com>,  <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [pct-l] Pack weight to body weight ratio...
> 
> I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that if your body weight isn't
> ummm..."ideal", let's say, then the whole pack weight/ body weight
> formula falls apart.
> 
> In other words, if you're 5'-10" tall and weight 300 pounds, then a 75
> pound pack is gonna kill you a couple miles into the trail... 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Mark Verber
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:10 PM
> To: Don Fletcher
> Cc: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: [BULK] - Re: [pct-l] Pack weight to body weight ratio...
> 
> > Hey : does anyone have any thoughts about body weight to pack weight 
> > ratios , for optimum physiologic work while hiking??
> >  I have tried to find some science on this to no avail ( so far )
> >   Don ( malachi , trail name )
> 
> Optimal is a zero pack weight.  Alas, that is typically not practical.
>  Conventional wisdom is that more than 1/4 of body is definetely *not*
> optimal.  My experience is that whenever my pack gets more than 1/6 my
> weight I really start to notice it.  Hmm.. when my daughter's pack get
> more than 1/6 her weight she starts complaining.
> 
> I recall an article in a sports medical journal (or maybe it was from
> the Army's research center) that had some data related to this question.
> I can't find the article right now... but if I did it up and will send
> you a copy.
> 
> --mark
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