BMI Limitations
Comments critique BMI as an inaccurate health metric, especially for athletes and muscular people who appear overweight despite being fit, and advocate for body fat percentage as a better measure.
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My interpretation is that weight is an overrated measure of health.
Aren't people who exercise (bodybuilding) generally considered overweight (defined as having a too high weight for a given height?) I noticed the same as you pointed out but figured that might help explain some of that difference
It goes the other way too. You might have a BMI in the "healthy" range, but actually have an unhealthy amount of body fat [0]. Of course, nobody puts themselves in this category.[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#/media/File:Co...
That sounds like a problem with the definition of overweight, which probably uses BMI. BMI doesn't seem to scale well to athletic builds.
Would be interesting to see their BMI. People always say BMI is not a good indicator for athletes.
How about just body fat percentage?
No offense, but could your weight be a factor as well? Your body-mass-index is in the "overweight" category while his is barely in the "normal" category.
You're fine. I'm almost identical in measurements and I'm fit. A bit of muscle makes BMI a joke.
I thought it was meant more to assess how fat someone is, not health?
I would rather see something on body fat percentage. BMI is not an ideal measurement in terms of health for a lot of body types.