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<blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3865791" data-attributes="member: 35603"><p>BMI gets used for all kinds of erroneous measures. It was never and will never be a metric for health or fitness. Body fat % and even more importantly visceral fat certainly is. Merely taking someones weight in relation to their height gives absolutely no metrics on their physical fitness or health. It does make for a decent ballpark single number to share in triage so dosages can be guesstimated on the fly.</p><p></p><p>I have slipped about 15# this year (stepped into high gear when I almost had to let my belt out a notch), but I feel best walking around 185-190# at 5'7". For me, that lands me around 15-17% body fat but still shows as obese on a BMI scale. The guys that I have worked with who did semi-professional fitness competitions would all look morbidly obese on a BMI scale while have less than 10% body fat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wawazat, post: 3865791, member: 35603"] BMI gets used for all kinds of erroneous measures. It was never and will never be a metric for health or fitness. Body fat % and even more importantly visceral fat certainly is. Merely taking someones weight in relation to their height gives absolutely no metrics on their physical fitness or health. It does make for a decent ballpark single number to share in triage so dosages can be guesstimated on the fly. I have slipped about 15# this year (stepped into high gear when I almost had to let my belt out a notch), but I feel best walking around 185-190# at 5'7". For me, that lands me around 15-17% body fat but still shows as obese on a BMI scale. The guys that I have worked with who did semi-professional fitness competitions would all look morbidly obese on a BMI scale while have less than 10% body fat. [/QUOTE]
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