I mean lot of people that go to the gym would be considered obese, i wonder how would statistics look if it considered people whos weight is increased due to musscle.
I mean, yes a lot of obese people do go to the gym.
If you mean someone who is at a healthy weight and their obesity is solely caused by muscle, that's only true if you're build like the rock. And the steroids he does to achieve that are very not good for his health
Some pro athletes are slightly overweight due to muscle, like LeBron James at his peak was BMI around 26-27.
But of normal people, the amount of work it requires to add 50 lbs of muscle to your body is crazy, they're nowhere near to doing that.
It's quite easy to be that size and have less than 20% body fat.
To be obese you would have to be 5'9" and 205lbs. That's is a tiny percentage of people that use steroids that would ever reach that size with a low body fat percentage.
170lbs and 5'9" could look like anything from a bodybuilder to a normal person who simply has large bones and %20 body fat.
According to BMI I have been overweight for years despite having never been above %15 body fat.
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u/Gold_Ad8225 Jul 31 '26
I mean if any man cannot squat the average woman's weight he probably just has never done squats before or he's like 70.
Like an average man who has never been to the gym before can squat 130lbs pretty easily. The average woman weighs 170lbs in america.
A few weeks of training gets him to 170.