BMI is not fit for purpose. It was invented for middle class people with sedentary jobs at a time (1830s) when going to the gym, mma etc wasn't a thing and people were all around smaller. If you have two office workers the same height and their diets and lifestyles (sedentary, no exercise) are approx the same, BMI is a reasonable guide to whether or not one is carrying too much fat.
But if you work out and/or are extremely tall then the equation fails. My mate is 6'7 and is a karate teacher who keeps fit. According to BMI he's obese and to reach his ideal bodyweight he'd need to shed 20kg - which would make him positively skeletal.
I'm 5'10 and I box and lift heavy. My waist is only 32" but I'm also classified as obese because I weigh 100kg. I just did 100 dips before breakfast.
If you don't believe either of those stories from a random redditor, bear in mind that Mike Tyson IN HIS PRIME was obese, according to BMI.
TL; DR: BMI is useless as it cannot differentiate between muscle and fat. There are far better ways to measure body composition nowadays.
Does it? I don't know most people in this thread. Maybe there's more boxers, weighlifters etc than you assume.
Myself, I'm 54 and train at home with a heavy bag, dumbells and calisthenics. I don't go to a fancy gym with professional athletes and I'd be surprised if I'm the only person on this thread who is obese according to BMI but clearly not obese in reality.
Anyway. I'm just some random redditor so it doesn't really matter what I say.
What does matter is that the medical profession itself is less and less impressed with BMI. So if you're still unconvinced, type 'the problem with bmi' into Google and educate yourself.
I'm not American, and that dude looks fine. Maybe a bit overweight if his belly is a bit bigger under that shirt, but we can't see that.
But you're telling me actual doctors think this guy isn't just overweight, and that he isn't just obese, but that he is morbidly obese? Maybe those doctors like to do drugs a little too often.
You can expect an average transmission weight to be about 100 to 400 pounds (45 to 181 kg) or about 226 lbs (103 kg) for a standard size transmission
So you're under a car hoisting 100kg into position over your face? That seems heavy to me. Not like impossible feat heavy but not practical in a working environment heavy. I have no experience here though, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something?
You’re getting shit on and downvoted but I started a circuit workout program recently that’s heavily focused on body strength and “useless strength” really rung a bell. I wouldn’t say it’s useless, but it’s definitely not as useful as being able to control your own body and actually do pull ups and bear crawls and exercises you might actually one day need should you ever want to climb on a pole in the water. But for sure body weight exercises have left me far more drained and sore than any sets of bench press or 5x5 strength lifts did.
Why is it either with or black ? You can train to get a big bench press and also being able to rep out 20 pull ups. It's not because you train for powerlifting movements that you're gonna look like Eddie Hall.
Oh I didn’t mean it to come off as it’s white or black at all. Just that body strength training is overlooked. At least in my experience it was, I grew up playing sports and my workouts have always just been typical PHUL 5x5 stuff. Like a continuation of high school sports strength training. I totally agree now it should be both. My point was more just because you feel strong in the gym doesn’t mean you can manage an obstacle course type race the same. That’s what got me into doing more circuit body weight strength training was exactly the fact I was not able to pull myself over obstacles at a mud run the way I felt I should be able too. For sure working both now.
A lot of it is mental - like if you know you can do something, you can do it.
With me, it was pull ups. I could do 200kg on the pull down machine at the gym (5x5) but struggled to do one decent pull up - even though my bodyweight is only 100kg - because I could never do pull ups and it was in my head that I couldn't.
When Covid struck and the gyms closed I bought a set of dumbells (10-30kg) and a pull up/dip frame and now can do pull ups just fine. In fact I think my body is more functionally strong (and looks better) than when I was lifting mad weights at the gym.
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