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> 5. Manage Weight (Optimal BMI is 25) The target range for BMI is 18.5 to 24.9. At 25, you're already overweight. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body
by grecy 3y ago
> 5. Manage Weight (Optimal BMI is 25)
The target range for BMI is 18.5 to 24.9.
At 25, you're already overweight. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
- goosinmouse 3y agoI will note that my BMI is 25 and i have a 6 pack. It's not perfect and really is just a rough guide. But i guess its a moot point since bodybuilders are already aware of that.
- stavros 3y agoYeah, BMI doesn't work well if you have a ton of muscle, but it's a simple measure that works well in 90% of cases. If you know that BMI isn't accurate, you probably already know what you need to do about yours.
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoIt also doesn't work if you're at all far outside of the average height. This is fine for population level statistics (which is what BMI is for) but not for individual health measures. If I were to be on the lower end of "healthy" BMI I would be severely malnourished.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoI guess it depends on what you mean by "works", but to my untrained eye BMI doesn't work especially well for individuals in general. It was designed to measure large populations using routinely collected statistical data, not to inform individual lifestyle and medical decisions. These days we have much more effective methods to evaluate metabolic and cardiovascular health instead of using a metric that's a proxy of a proxy, but calculating BMI and applying a (largely arbitrary) label is dirt-cheap by comparison to all of those; it requires no special expertise, expensive equipment, time-consuming procedure, or thoughtful analysis.
- zingababba 3y agoYeah, best way is to just get a dexa, lots of places offer them and they're very affordable.
- mharig 3y agoAFAIR, 'someone' changed that in the nineties down from 28. For whatever reason. Furthermore BMI does not discriminate between muscle mass, bone mass, and fat mass. And to top that, it does not disriminate between male & female. It is a completely overrated value, IMHO doing more harm than having beneficial use cases.