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Letters from the locker room - Tell Us Anything - Letter to the Editor

Men's Fitness, March, 2004 by Clem Gunderson

Sometimes when I'm changing, this same guy will walk out of the shower and hop on the scale, buck naked. Would weighing yourself in socks and underwear throw the scale off that much? Is common courtesy too much to ask?

CLEM GUNDERSON

LANSING, MI

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Not at all. Although body weight is most accurately measured when you're in the buff, a few cotton threads to hide your shame won't tip the scale either way, Clem. Locker-room scales, incidentally, are notoriously inaccurate regardless, given the amount of use they get and the wear and tear that results. But don't tell your naked friend that. He's likely to start up a conversation with you right there. And from the sound of it, you may be too much era phobe to handle it.

Letters from the locker room - Tell Us Anything - Letter to the Editor

Men's Fitness, March, 2004 by Clem Gunderson

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