Your BMI

willy b
willy b Posts: 4,125
edited December 2008 in Health, fitness & training
So what is your BMI...

I know you all want to have a go lol

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/BMI.aspx?Tag=
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    BMI is an awful tool to use to determine your health status. especially for people (hopefully like most of us on here) that are quite active!
    according to the BMI guide, i'm obese, nearly clinically obese!

    i've done whats called a bodpod test on myself www.bodpod.com and i'm around 16% body fat...thats about average, nowhere near clinically obese! (done in uni, i'm training as a sports nutritionist)

    BMI should only be used if you are in the "general population" ie the equations aren't adjusted for more active/athletic people, and doesn't take into account fitness level.you try putting in the dimensions for a rugby prop!!!

    if you want a real indicator to see how at risk you are of cardiovascular disease (the basis behind the BMI indicator) a more useful/specific method is to use the waist to hip ratio.
    as central obesity is a very good indicator of cardiovascular disease, the waist to hip ratio is starting to be more widely used by doctors and sports nutritionists.
    Read here: http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_informatio ... asure.html

    Men: WHR over 0.9 = higher cardiovascular disease risk
    Women: WHR over 0.85 = higher cardiovascular disease risk

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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    25.01 meaning I'm "overweight..."

    With 9% bodyfat, a VO2 Max of over 60 and a resting pulse of 50-52... :lol::lol::lol:
  • Dan67
    Dan67 Posts: 658
    looks like matt is ready to keal over and die with those stats

    mines 21.5.

    my fat percentage is about 13% i think
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  • Rich9
    Rich9 Posts: 1,635
    mine is 21.15 so i'm supposedly healthy....Now where did i put the left over halloween sweets :oops:
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  • P0IS0N0AK
    P0IS0N0AK Posts: 6
    Just done it, If I select 5 foot 12, I have a less BMI than if select 6 Foot! Whats all that about?
  • dunker
    dunker Posts: 1,503
    19.27 according to that site.
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    BMI 19
    WHR 0.8

    60 y.o., smoking since I was 9, still recovering (5 years + 6 mths) alcoholic....doesn't mean much really, does it?
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  • !!NICK!!
    !!NICK!! Posts: 17
    hehe, 18.5 only just underweight but my resting HR is 92, how do you find out you fat % btw?
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    You need a set of scales that pass an electric current through you, or can be estimated using calipers to grab a fold of fat!
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  • !!NICK!!
    !!NICK!! Posts: 17
    supersonic wrote:
    You need a set of scales that pass an electric current through you, or can be estimated using calipers to grab a fold of fat!

    so basically what your saying is if i hook my bathroom scales up to a car battery it'l tell me how fat i am?
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Probably tell you how dead you are ;-)
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    :lol: there are so many different guides about skinfold measurements and none are very accurate.
    the electricity method is called "bioelectrical impedence" and can give a reasonably accurate indication of body fat %...the gold standard is the BODPOD (i've done all 3 in uni).

    you can pick up BI scales from around £30 online.
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    !!NICK!! wrote:
    hehe, 18.5 only just underweight but my resting HR is 92, how do you find out you fat % btw?

    Blimey that a bit high!
    My RHR is 52.
  • !!NICK!!
    !!NICK!! Posts: 17
    Surf-Matt wrote:
    !!NICK!! wrote:
    hehe, 18.5 only just underweight but my resting HR is 92, how do you find out you fat % btw?

    Blimey that a bit high!
    My RHR is 52.

    think it's coz i only started cycling around 4 months ago and before then i didnt really do any exercise, hopefully when it starts warming up i'll start doing more than just the daily commute and it'l go down
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Varies for us all, not always an indicator of fitness. Fatigue and illness ie an infection can raise it as can stimulants such as caffeine.
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  • !!NICK!!
    !!NICK!! Posts: 17
    did an experiment in biology last week, 1 coffee only raised it by 2BPM, only thing you listed then that could've raised it i guess is that i have a cold
  • FSR_XC
    FSR_XC Posts: 2,258
    The link's no longer working.

    I was kinda lookin forward to doing the test. A couple of years ago, I had my BMI measured at the gym. I was 'clinically obese'! Not bad considering I was circuit training, swimming and doing weights regularly!
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  • Mc Smiley
    Mc Smiley Posts: 252
    BMI 18.9, not too bad but i have lost fat but gained muscle since beginning uni so hopefully by BMI is higher.

    My resting heart rate measured today was 40... hmm
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    supersonic wrote:
    Varies for us all, not always an indicator of fitness. Fatigue and illness ie an infection can raise it as can stimulants such as caffeine.

    Indeed but its still high though - sounds like it will soon drop though.

    Mark - Even I'm "overweight" on BMI :lol::lol::lol:

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