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Navy Formula calls me an athlete and is SORELY mistaken. BMI accurately calls me overweight, but is probably mistaken about how much.
by anothernewdude 4y ago
Navy Formula calls me an athlete and is SORELY mistaken. BMI accurately calls me overweight, but is probably mistaken about how much.
- graeme 4y agoIt’s more about direction than absolute level. It has my body fat far too low I think but I can see it change with my waist/weight over time
- pc86 4y agoBMI being accurate is really a broken clock being right twice a day sort of thing. If you have any appreciable muscle mass, or do any sort of training beyond just running (or run a lot) BMI is wrong almost all the time.
- graeme 4y agoI prefer waist circumference, but BMI is not far off for most people. I’m quite muscular, only times I ever hit “slightly overweight” on BMI I also had a small gut I checked the the BMI of elite hockey players ranged from 25.5 to 27. And that’s for rather muscular people, also tall, at the far edge of the “high bmi, not overweight” spectrum. Virtually guaranteed if you have a BMI 28-29+ as a male you also have excess waist circumference. The idea that BMI is comically wrong is…well, wrong.