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Originally posted by DIBBLE
why didn't you just ask your doc instead or relying on an ex aussie squaddie and a tractor drivers guesswork ????
just a thought .... |
BMI is readily publilshed on the internet - google is your friend.
As my esteemed nar**** tractor driving gent confirms, the only two variables in BMI are height and weight. So ... essentially completely useless.
YMFB - a body fat measurement, assuming you're referring to a pinch test, is a much more accurate method of finding out your body fat percentage. Which is actually relevant to you, regardless of your BMI indicator.
As a measure of how useful the BMI is ... I was around 27 on the BMI scale, which is overweight heading towards obesity (30 and above is obese) but I was quite lean. Yeah yeah I hear you all say, but I was running 5km's in 19 minutes at the time, and doing sprint series triathlons, on top of being a soldier.
My current BMI is 30 - so according to that scale I'm obese. I'm definitely overweight at the moment but I'm not obese.