BMI is a worthless measure of weight. Trust the idiots in public education to love it.
Every time I get a fitness check from my insurer, they inform me I’m overweight, My BMI is 25.2, up to 24.9 is normal. I’m 5’9 171, 57. my body fat is 11%, their target for my age is 20, my waist is 33, their target is 40. I do a 20 minute workout every day but Sunday alternating between running on an elliptical for two ten minute stretches and pure weight work on the other days.
I ask them if my body fat is almost ten percent below their target, then what is that extra weight I’m carrying? It doesn’t matter to them. I was never a skinny rail, not built that way, as a college athlete I was one pound less than I am now, with a 29 in waist and a 46 inch chest, so at 155 pounds, I’d be near death. It takes nothing into account how you are built. My buddy is my size, but narrow shouldered, weighs ten pounds less than me, with a beer gut and doesn’t look or feel like he could keep up, but he is OK according to these experts!