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How effective is a BMI calculator?
Has anybody used one?
Love to hear your thoughts…

have you seen these calculators? good resource!

http://www.muscledog.com/workout/fitness_calculator

It does not work that well if you have a lot of muscle. For someone like me that trains roughly 9 times a week. I have a lot of muscle which makes me heavier. At 5’8 im about 195lbs right now. I have a six pack but my bmi is 29.16. Im boarding on obese according to the bmi chart even though its clear im not.

Thank you I will take a look…

yeah, i’m not even close to as muscular as Rob but even I am considered obese according to the BMI, at least i was a few years ago. i think the weight components go up as you get older so i might be right in line now, but when i was younger it was totally off. the BMI, just like a lot of statistical measures, is really bad for many individuals cause few people fall right in the middle of any measure, but it is great for a population.

Thanks I will give it a try and see what hapenns…