:smack:
24.2. It’s a little higher than I’d like it, I’ve been indulging a bit. I’d rather be around 21-22.
24.5. According to BMI, I’m .5 from being overweight, which is why I think BMI is bullshit. It doesn’t take into effect my body type (thin but muscular). Nobody who looked at me would ever consider me borderline overweight.
I am a 23. 6-3, 185.
Oh yeah…and this ^^^^
I had a doctor’s appointment last week, which of course involved stepping on the scale. That’s pretty much the only time I ever weigh myself. I figure that if my pants continue to fit, I don’t need to worry about my weight.
20.5 BMI for me.
Of course one could actually just look at what the actual article says. It is available free on-line.
Context - When looking at BMI alone previous studies have sometimes found the lowest mortality associated with the 20 to 25 range and sometimes lowest mortality a small bit higher. (24.5 is pretty dang ideal corkboard.) Most have found a significant increase under 20. (For example see this graph from this article looking at 1.46 million White adults. Black and Asian adults may have different numbers.) This current article pools data from multiple studies of all ethnicities and analyzes according to the extremely arbitrary but standardized definitions of:
Those are the standard terms so the choice is defensible but a certain granularity is lost - the known higher risk associated with under 20 is lumped with the 20 to 25s, for example.
Their findings are straightforward. They do not report numbers for “underweight” but it is well established that such is associated with high mortality rates. Using that definition of “normal” BMI as the standard group (which again includes the increased mortality 18.5 to 20 group) they find that:
FWIW. BMI is a tool of only so much value. It does not inform about how much of that mass is lean body mass, including muscle, where fat is stored (central obesity being of much higher risk), or fitness level (a strong independent predictor of health outcomes), or whether or not an individual is eating fruits and vegeatables. But uh, no, it is not all about genetics.
Leaffan, not to break your bubble, but your 22.8 BMI with relatively little fitness is likely at no better long term health risk than MLS’s BMI of 30 with fairly high fitness. And if you have a paunch (which some low BMI people do), and she, like many swimmers, has lats of steel, she is likely much better off.
scootergirl, if you do not mind my asking, why do you feel your “goal weight” should be 10 to 15 pounds less with a BMI of 21.4? Toning up? Sure, low BMI can have poor muscle mass. But that means more resistance exercise and maybe adding some weight as you add muscle, not an arbitrary lower weight on the scale.
This is mine as well.
I’m 5’8, 150 lbs with a large frame. Though I would like to drop 5 lbs and tone up it’s not a bad weight for someone who has had three children (my youngest is 2.5) and is not especially active.
25.11
I am guy with an athletic build that can complain that BMI scale isn’t useful due to muscle weighing more than fat. I probably had a lower BMI last year, but was in worse shape then. I have a 31/32-in waist and wear medium sized shirts and can pretty easily do 20 pull ups.
I’m in the 25-26 range, but almost none of my weight is muscle (unfortunately).
Me too, but I “cheat” by having next to no muscle. I’ve gotten a little fatter than I’d like to be.
5’8’, 300 pounds. BMI is off the [del] hook[/del] chart.
It’s all muscle. Muscle, I tell ya.:dubious:
You wouldn’t call the Hulk fat, would you?
25.7 here. 6’3", 205 pounds. I am marginally overweight. I had no idea.
Well you are in a tiny minority. Impressive.
Ambi, with your upper body strength and low lower body mass (thus low weight overall), how many pull ups can you do? I suspect quite a few.
18.65 which puts me just barely in the normal category. I’m a petite woman so that seems off; few people would look at me and think “underweight”.
24 even, which is on the higher side of normal but I also have a muscular body (one online body fat calculator, based on weight/waist/neck/height measurements, however accurate that may be, says I’m 15% body fat, so not very low but not high either, which sounds about right).
Also, I don’t know how many pull-ups I can do since I don’t do them, but I regularly do push-ups and I can do 60-70 without stopping (several sets, if not as many on succeeding sets), which is far beyond what most people my age can do according to this (“36 push-ups is considered excellent fitness for a 20- to 29-year-old man”, and this is lower than what the Navy, etc. requires in a minute).
Oh. I am 24.5. Which places me at the 25%ile for age and gender. For what that is worth.
(If anyone wants to see how they compare to the rest of the American population this BMI calculator does that.)
With just my bodyweight? Oh geez, probably 50. But it’s been eons since I’ve done bodyweight-only pullups. My pullups are performed with me strapped into my wheelchair, and I pull the chair up with my body. When I want to challenge myself, I’ll throw a 25lb plate into my wheelchair bagpack on the back of my chair and bust out 10-12 reps.
15th percentile for age and gender. 85% of Americans are fatter than me.