[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by hammbone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sound fat. While yes, there are far better methods of determining body fat, calipers and underwater for example, my point was the scale to determine obesity isn't flawless - please continue to put everyone in a box. Even the military uses a similar flawed metric and will measure tape you for being over height/weight ratio.

It gets laughably bad in taller people.

I am 6'2 and the BMI says I can be 150 pounds before I'm underweight, which demonstrates the absolute failure of using the BMI index to determine anything to do with appearance or health. Kinda irresponsible of the military and health organization to religiously follow this system that everyones eyes can see doesn't work. A healthy weight for me is about 215 pounds and I need to be 225 to be "average" musculature of a 5'7-5'10 guy. I prefer 240. My doctor one year dubbed me underweight at 200 pounds and said he would be looking to see some gains next year.

tl;dr BMI index is trash and has nothing to do with bodyfat or shape unless youre a manlet. Calipers also junk.