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It works fine for the general population. We don’t exactly have an epidemic of bodybuilders
by notfromhere 3y ago
It works fine for the general population. We don’t exactly have an epidemic of bodybuilders
- QuercusMax 3y agoBut it's the military, so you're going to have a lot more super muscly and jacked guys than the general population. And it doesn't work well for the general population, anyway; it's a bad metric across the board. If you're very tall or very short, it misrepresents you. There are equally simple measures like waist-to-height ratio that have fewer issues. See this article: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#Waist-to-height-ratio-better-than-BMI https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#Waist-to-he...