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What's your BMI "body mass index"

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Originally posted by: Amused
6' 200 lbs

Puts me at 27 -- overweight

But I am proof that the BMI is crap. Why? My BF is under 15%

If you have any muscle at all, the BMI is useless.
Right, and most people with muscle know better than to worry about BMI. 😉 I was actually discussing this the other day with a physician friend of mine and he agrees that it's basically just a simple means of quantifying people's weight in order to make it more obvious to them that they need to make some lifestyle changes.

BTW- I'm 6' 190, so technically "overweight" as well. 😉

 
22, up from 20, 10 years ago.

Any site with instructions for the method that measures fat layers in various points of the body to compute the body fat index? I did it when in college, and was near the minimum for a healthy average person.
 
5'6 115lbs BMI 18
bench one max rep 155lbs
shoulder press 50lbs dumbells each side

So without the muscle mass, my BMI is really what, 10%? 😕
 
yea bmi is rather inaccurate since it doesn't account for whether ur weight is made up of gobs of fat😛 u gotta do one of those underarm fat pinch tests and stuff for better guage of fitness.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
6' 200 lbs

Puts me at 27 -- overweight

But I am proof that the BMI is crap. Why? My BF is under 15%

If you have any muscle at all, the BMI is useless.

I agree. I'm an endomorph (big boned) and I am sitting at 6' 195 and am at 11% BF. BMI is too general
 
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