So I've been "cutting" by ramping up the cardio this past month or so. And it's working, about right. It was so I might refinance some life insurance. (Or might not, but to have the opportunity I would have to make weight.)

So after a few weeks of this, my trainer Kenny asks me today "any word from the insurance guys?" and I say "no, maybe it's too tough to work the numbers out or something."

After today's second workout, I felt great, and checked my email. Well what have we here - the insurance guys have got back to me; and the punch line is I have to be under a weight which I am already 5 pounds under.

Oh well, I think I'll stay on the cut for a while. I like the feeling of control.

Your 5lbs under the weight they want you at? :confused:

Still losing weight never hurts, makes all that cardio and lifting a helluva lot easier, and increases your coefficients.:tucool:

(305 @ 240? how about 315 @ 176)

I have a similar goal where I want to be healthy before I increase my life insurance with a new policy. The last time I applied for life insurance I was training for a marathon.

Sorry Zen.

What a bunch of turds... :spank:

Your 5lbs under the weight they want you at? :confused:

Yeah. I thought they were going to want 185# or so, like the last couple of insurance companies. But these guys are OK with 210# for their best health-based rate.

Which means a couple of things. I'm older now than the last time I was underwritten, so the "cohort" I am in might be heavier. Also, this insurance company uses different bonds to back the insurance as opposed to a stock portfolio, so the advantage of their policy could be largely financial and not much to do with health.

Still losing weight never hurts, makes all that cardio and lifting a helluva lot easier, and increases your coefficients.:tucool:

Weighing more actually makes lifting easier in a lot of ways. It is sort of break even on the cardio.

But I think I will keep cutting. The lower I go, the more insurance companies I can get good quotes from.