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Anonymous
according to my BMI, I am overweight. I know that I'm not quite 2% body fat, but I didn't think I was fat. does anyone know of a more reliable way to measure body fat than hight and weight??
>> Anonymous
nope.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, um, you're not fat.
>> Anonymous
BMI does not account for the distribution of weight, everyone knows that.
Go get a good set of calipers.

Go now
>> Anonymous
>>265343
Yeah, this. If you have clearly defined abs, don't worry about your BMI. But if your really curious, get one of those scales that send electricity through your feet and measure your fat to muscle to bone ratio.
>> Anonymous
Look BMI is an utterly archaic way of looking, wait, no, guessing body fat. It does not take into account people with wide frames or large amounts of muscle. Most atheletes would be considered overweight. "For example Lance Armstrong was classified as "overweight" when he competed in the 1993 Tour de France."
If you are really concerned with your BF, find someone who can test you with calipers.
>> Anonymous
his arms should be bigger with that big of sides and his sides are straight up and down thats fat.
>> Anonymous
>>265358
lol you /fit/fags are the most pathetic bunch of kids outside of /b/
>> Anonymous
>>265358
Go be jealous somewhere else you fat fag.
>> Anonymous
You're not quite 2% bodyfat?

Fuck... really? I thought I was like 8%~ and I'm at a similar level to you if not less...
>> Anonymous
>>265377
If you have 2% bodyfat, you would either be the most fit person on the planet, or dead.
>> Anonymous
>>265380
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>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
>>265383

just as hilarious as before. bravo.
>> Anonymous
>>265380

*sigh* For a moment, sponge, I thought you were just a troll. However, now I realize that you're also a fucking idiot. If you know anything at all about statistics, you'll know that BMI is a relatively good measure for sampling populations. Most people don't tend to be on the extremes for being very well muscled or overly fat.

That being the case, BMI doesn't apply to 'outliers' outside the range of average fitness levels. Hence, it'll overestimate fat in athletic and fit people and underestimate it in the retardedly fat.

I'm 5'11" @ 214 lbs with a lean body mass of 192 lbs. That puts me at around 10.1% body fat and yet gives me a BMI of 29.8. A BMI of 30 or higher is defined as obese.

As you can see, it's useless for some, but a good indicator for the average, basically sedentary person.
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
>>265393

>I thought you were just a troll. However, now I realize that you're also a fucking idiot.

that's why you just wrote a really long post refuting my bullshit right
>> Anonymous
http://fitness.podarco.com/content/view/65/96