BMI 16
Age 23
F
BMI 16
Age 23
F
I’m 34 and my BM is brown.
20.8 BMI at age 57.
22.1/44 y/o male
BMI is a load of horse shat. Pretty much anyone who lifts is considered overweight.
ooper wrote:
Waist to height ratio is a superior determinant of physical condition. Anything over 0.45 and you need to run more.
That has an absolute zero relation to the "determinant of physical condition."
A 75 year old smoker could have a 0.45 ratio.
ooper wrote:
Waist to height ratio is a superior determinant of physical condition. Anything over 0.45 and you need to run more.
Thanks for sharing that, it sounds correct. I also think that BMI is kind of useless compared to Body Fat %. I have a BMI of 26 with Body Fat of 8.9%, my Waist to Height ratio is 0.52 so yeah I have to lose fat around the waist. Still can run for miles and miles easily (but rarely run more than 3 miles and mostly 1 mile) and good muscular strength (focusing on weight workouts). 60 years old.
no bmi wrote:
BMI is a load of horse shat. Pretty much anyone who lifts is considered overweight.
+1
21.9, just shy of 54, male
no bmi wrote:
BMI is a load of horse shat. Pretty much anyone who lifts is considered overweight.
Very true. BMI was never meant to be used as an individual indicator, it’s useful only in making generalizations about large groups.
Age: 41
BMI: 30
Alan
Age: 61
BMI: 18
Male
37 yrs old / 24.7 kg/m2
What does this work in progress indicate about the letsrun posters body types ..fat/average/lean ?
18 and 56. Male (lots of old guys on this thread)
Hi 50+ers
20.2, 61
5-10 years ago in my masters xc ski days it was 21.5
ooper wrote:
Waist to height ratio is a superior determinant of physical condition. Anything over 0.45 and you need to run more.
Anything over 0.5 is the standard actually. If you are between 0.4 and 0.5 this indicates optimal health, if you are outside that range you are probably not as healthy as you could be. Mine is 0.42.5 and everybody comments on my weight, some people say I look too thin and others say I am looking in really good shape, I wouldn’t want t get any thinner than I currently am.
24
5’1
100lbs
Sprint addict wrote:
ooper wrote:
Waist to height ratio is a superior determinant of physical condition. Anything over 0.45 and you need to run more.
Anything over 0.5 is the standard actually. If you are between 0.4 and 0.5 this indicates optimal health, if you are outside that range you are probably not as healthy as you could be. Mine is 0.42.5 and everybody comments on my weight, some people say I look too thin and others say I am looking in really good shape, I wouldn’t want t get any thinner than I currently am.
24
5’1
100lbs
midge
age 69, bmi 19.5
Medical doctors may like Body Mass Index. Running athletes for distances past 200m need to be measured by inches divided by pounds or centimetres divided by kilograms. Inches divided by pounds is not a measurement for health, it is a measurement for performance. Since sprinters/runners from 60m to 100 miles are fighting gravity, taller runners cannot have a worse inches divided by pounds number than shorter runners. This means taller runners must be thinner than shorter runners as measured by b.m.i.
television and film wrote:
midge
I prefer “petite” ?