It can be. If I had zero percent body fat I'd weigh 220. Which for a 6'4" male

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Apr 10, 2024
11:34:30am

paulb All-American

is overweight according to BMI.

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paulb

Bio page: paulb
Joined: Sep 30, 2011
Last login: May 21, 2024
Total posts: 24,771 (764 FO)

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Messages

Author

Time

Still overweight but making progress

svcougfan

Apr 10, 11:20am

How can you tell how much muscle gain and fat loss?

cougarblue

Apr 10, 11:24am

Doing the SECA scan which breaks down fat, muscle, water composition

svcougfan

Apr 10, 11:29am

Are you doing DEXA scans?

Shore10

Apr 10, 11:25am

I agree that BMI is dumb, but it gives you a metric that does vary with your

spoxjox

Apr 10, 11:26am

Good job on the weight loss, but BMI is not dumb.

scootsy

Apr 10, 11:27am

Thanks and perhaps

svcougfan

Apr 10, 11:33am

It can be. If I had zero percent body fat I'd weigh 220. Which for a 6'4" male

paulb

Apr 10, 11:34am

That's the thing, though. You don't have 0% body fat or 5% or 10%. Nor does

Nikomedes

Apr 10, 11:36am

I know I don't, but I if I did, I'd still be overweight, even though I couldn't

paulb

Apr 10, 11:40am

It’s really not

jes2332

Apr 10, 11:54am

Looks are subjective. The obesity epidemic has skewed what people perceive as

wildwilderness

Apr 11, 8:21pm

BMI definitely has its pitfalls…

MD Rebel Coug

Apr 10, 12:16pm

90% of CBers are convinced they fall into those categories.

scootsy

Apr 10, 12:36pm

Exactly this. For almost everyone, bmi is a very good measure. Everyone wants to

Jay Rick

Apr 10, 1:21pm

It is dumb

Unibro

Apr 10, 1:42pm

BMI is definitely dumb for some "body" types such as Nick Foles

Belboz

Apr 10, 11:55am

Try steroids. Heard they help build muscle.

Big McLargeHuge

Apr 11, 10:11pm

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