The Top 5 Most Fit & 5 Least Fit Cities In the U. S.

[Anonymous]

According to a recent study by The American College of Sports Medicine, Washington, D.C. is the fittest city in America with its various parks and walking and biking paths.

The rankings were based on outdoor exercise options and rates of smoking, obesity and diabetes.

Check out the lists below to see if your city made the top five fit list or rounded out the least fit list!

MOST FIT

1. Washington D.C.

Even though it has ranked first for two years in a row, the Washington, D.C., area still has many pockets of poverty, to match its areas of great wealth and health.

2. Minneapolis, Minnesota

3. San Diego, California

4. San Francisco, California

5. Sacramento, California

LEAST FIT

1. Indianapolis, Indiana

2. Memphis, Tennessee

The Memphis mayor built bike lanes and scenic bike routes, but barely anyone bikes or walks to work, however.

3. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is building new trail routes and improving sidewalks to facilitate more recreation and a new public park is planned for the downtown area. Its residents also ranked low on all measures for all types of exercise.

4. San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio has added outdoor exercise equipment in many parks and added running and walking routes.

5. Louisville, Kentucky

Where do you think your city should be on the list?

[Phoenix98]

I'd honestly put Kansas into one of the more fitter states, since we are almost entirely farmland, lot of farmers, factory workers and miners here (manual labor that requires strength). Even the larger and older people are pretty fit and healthy, I regularly see 70+ year old biking, training in the gym etc.

[Chick180]

Hahahahaha NYC isn't on there? That's funny.

[BertMacklinFBI]

you New Yorkers walk everywhere! xD

[Consultant]

Might I note Cali is on the like 3 times... :D

[Chick180]

I know! God. Epic fail. @BertMacklinFBI

Eh, majority of you guys are fit because of all the surgeries theyve done ;pp
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[Consultant]

@chick180 guess i can't really argue that, i got a little cosmetic surgery on one of my teeth lol

[Chick180]

Haha since you're not originally from there, you're exempt.
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[Consultant]

I actually want to move out of here. Fuck California, is overrated. is NYC accepting applications, jk that's too urban for me i think.
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[Chick180]

Not everywhere in NYC is very urban. Do some research! And you have to lose the 'wannabeness' before you come or you're gonna get snobbed out ;))
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[Consultant]

Fine, I can do that.. But I can still say things like "that's hella rad bro, dude the other day I saw this girl she is bae"

jk few of those words bug me. "bae" to @chick180, is as "hella" is to consultant lmao

[Chick180]

We don't talk like that here -_-
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[Consultant]

Lol between my backwoods Nebraskan and "wannabeness" adopted Californian, i dont think i could ever fit in NYC lol
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[ccp16]

I think this fits pretty well. For the 3/5 fit being in California alone I could see that when you live in a nice environment and can be at the beach all the time, you want to look good. Plus, California has for lack of a better terms, hipsters or hippies, people who really care where their food came from but also the money to buy it.

The south also makes sense for most un-fit, a lot of poverty and poor education on food and more mentality of 'we'll do what we want'.

I know these are stereotypes and not true for everyone, I am just saying why I think this list makes sense at a glance.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

I don't believe this list. Most statistics are false anyway. How can they possibly screen the body fat percentage or other health factors for EVERY single person living in a city? It's impossible.

I've been to Louisville and Indianapolis and I don't see how those were different than any other city I've been to. There are an equal number everywhere you go.

The funny thing is, I always read there is a STRONG link between poverty and obesity, yet, San Diego, Sacramento and Washington D. C. are plastered with poverty. So, which statistic is true? This list or that people in poverty are generally unhealthy and obese?

[dartmaul15]

it's called representative selection.
You take people from all over the state, from all demographies, gendrs, cultures, etc, and test them. And you get a statistical average. It might be off by one or two percent, but it will still give a quite accurate result. You can for example use stratified selection. This is how all statistics are made, but we're barely scraping the surface to how complex it is to get a solid and reliable selection. Reliability is an other factor that is considered. If reliability is too low (how to calculate reliability is pure headache tbh), then the whole thing is thrown out of the window

as for the correlation between powerty and obsity; that's largely due to the squewed food prizes in the states, i suspect. Over here in norway, there's no significant correlation between income and obesity. So while it might be true in america, how you chosee to spend your money, and what society expect of you, does also matter A LOT!

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@dartmaul15 I completely understand the representative selection methodology but I can't agree it's only off by maybe "one or two" percent. I still think it's a "snapshot" but not the whole "movie"(metaphorically speaking but you get the jist.) I'm not too aware of stratified selection though.

The main reason why there is a link between poverty and obesity here in the United States (at least from what I've seen and read) is because they can't afford personal trainers, nutritionists, gym memberships, etc to help them get into good shape AND it's because they can't afford healthy food (here in my country, healthy food is ridiculously expensive.)

Norway sounds interesting. Maybe you guys don't need personal trainers because you walk more?(And drive less?) Or is healthy food fairly cheap?

[dartmaul15]

That snap shot is indeed not acurate. But you take hundreds, if not thousands of snap shots. That create a pattern. And usually the falsification process involves removing th top and bottom percentages (to eliminate extreme values, so landwhales passing 300kg doesn't affect the result), as well as checking it towards other similar surveys in the area to check for correlation.
So it's a bit more reliable than you might think, at least if done properly

The reason poor americans are overweight aren't because you can't afford gym memberships and all that bullshit, it's because you don't realize you can do that yourself. 80% of a healthy lifestyle is in the food, the rest is in excercising 30 minuts a day.
It is litterally enough to eat healthy, and walk arroudn the block for 60 minutes!
Might not give you the body of a greek god (don't want one either, since they saw a tiny cock as the ideal), but you will be healthy.
That is what we norwegians have realized; that you can do it alone

[Thrifty]

Manhattan, NY has the most fit girls for these reasons:

A. You have to walk everywhere
-Driving your own car is extremely difficult due to high traffic

B. Models are a dime a dozen there.

I haven't ever seen a fat person in Manhattan, unless he or she was a tourist.

[Consultant]

agree with California. I'm in Bay Area, most ofMy Co workers and I exercise in some way (lifting, yoga, running, etc) and talk about food choices, organic farmer markets etc

[Bluemax]

I would have thought New Orleans would have made the least fit. They have fried everything in New Orleans.

[GymBumGuy]

wow 3 city's in Cali awesome must be all that good spotting action

[lePoivre]

Isn't Colorado one of the most fit states in the country?

[DivaMonae]

Ha! I was for sure Chicago would've made it up there ^_^

[Anonymous]

funny how most of the fit cities are in blue states and most of the unfit cities are in redneck, red states.

[PLLFan21]

I agree with all the Cali cities, at least that's what I've seen.

[Kshppatel]

Lmao expected Houston, Texas to be in least fit

[Consultant]

Me too, das it mayne

[Pink2000]

Mississippi is the fattest state.

[lamborgini15]

Most people on this site are not from the USA lol.

[Tank2]

Im from DC

Welcome to dc

[SurströmmingLover]

Where's Springfield?