In a typical two-hour practice at the Olympic training camp, most of the team would lose roughly 8 percent of their body weight. And there were two practices a day, plus individual workouts. Imagine a 400-pound Biggest Loser contestant losing sixty-four pounds...
--Stanley J. Dziedzic Jr., Lehman Brothers' Dance with Delusion (2010)
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For a 150-lb person, that's losing--and having to put back on--more than 20 pounds a day. Having that much available to lose in fat and water seems suspect for someone who is Olympic-class. But I'll take him at his word...
...while noting a math problem. If the loss is percentage, the first session takes that 400# person down to 368 (-32). Eight percent of that is 29.44 pounds, so the total loss would be ca. 61.5, not 64 pounds.
Kind assumption: he's writing for a general audience. Kind condition: don't take his calculations on complex derivatives, later tranches, or anything else that requires something more than high school algebra as more than indicative.
Point taken. On D's analysis, after 12.5 practice sessions he'd disappear.
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