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L'Boro, UK
Oct 2001
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23.8 @ 6'6" and 207lbs. But Bugs is right, another thing you have to take into account is body fat percentage.
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Park Avenue
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Liberal and defender of freedoms for the people
Oct 1999
time: 05:17
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quote:
Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
The BMI analysis is deeply flawed. For a start, it automatically inflates women's figures - women generally have a higher percentage of body fat, and their chest doesn't help any (not in this case, anyway  ). Secondly, it takes no account of how that 150 pounds, or whatever, is built up. Ask Linford Christie, Donovan Bailey, or Arnold Schwarznegger to calculate their BMI and they'll probably show up as chronically obese - then try telling them that they are fat! |
I accept the criticisms.
The BMI Index is made for the man on the street, not the professional bodybuilder. If you are such, feel free to ignore your results...
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Jon Miller
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25.8
a slight bit overweight (which I knew)
Jon Miller
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Lazarus and the Gimp
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Whale-raping abomination
Aug 2000
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There's another group that get poorly served by the BMI- and that group is teenagers. The BMI is aimed firmly at adults that have stopped growing, not your average gangly teen. The "normal" teenager gets a lower BMI than the "normal" adult.
Take yourself as an example, Boddingtons. You're 18/19 aren't you? That means you're unlikely to grow any taller, but will almost certainly gain more muscle mass and will notice an increase in your chest and collar sizes over the next few years as your body takes on it's mature adult form.
Having said that, it's interesting that you're already in the heavy half of the "normal" BMI rating. At 18 I would have rated as slightly underweight, as would many teenagers. At 31 I now rate a 25.7, a rating which reflects that I've developed my father's big ribcage and cart-horse thighs.
Now the pictures I've seen of you all portray a chubby-cheeked young cherub, which suggests that you're either carrying the lingering traces of puppy-fat or have acquired some hamster genes at some point. Either way, you're hardly a light-weight among you rake-thin peers. As I said, you're already in the heavy half of the "normal" rating, and can you guess which way that's going to head? Yep- you guessed it. I estimate you'll be over the 25 rating by the age of 24/25.
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Thue
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 1970
time: 06:17
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My method of detemining if I have the right weight balance is to look in a mirror...
(BMI of 24)
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MattHiggs
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At 5' 11" and 164lbs, BMI is 22.9
Not bad I suppose.
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02-02-2002 15:49
I already know that I'm under 20, it runs in the family. I usually eat twice the amount that a guy a lot heavier than me would eat, and don't do sports at all, but I still stay as my skinny self. Usually it goes around 16-18. I'm still as healthy as a goat.
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