The worst way is to ask your spouse.
Long-winded reference to the water displacement method.
When Michael Jordan was still playing basketball, the Wizards of Smart ‘updated’ the BMI index, and as a result, Jordan would have been classified as obese.
The measurement is an AVERAGE based upon an insurance study of people back in the 1930s (or 40s). Yes, if you’re a body builder then you’ll have more muscle weight which will throw the measurement off. But if you’re a typical human being who doesn’t work out than the measurements are pretty accurate.
If you’re 5’10, 210lbs and not built like Arnold Schwarzenegger you’re not bulky - you’re obese!
Spoiler alert: the crown was not pure gold.
My son in high school who was very fit and built very solid, was considered *obese* by the BMI.
Ridiculous as he had almost no fat on him and he was very active physically.
Unfortunately, things have changed and genetics and a sedentary desk job caught up with him
BMI sure causes a lot of people to get their panties in a wad, mostly because it tells them what they don’t want to hear...that they’re too fat. Everybody knows it’s not a perfect measurement of body fat, it was never meant to be. It’s just a general screening tool. If you know your weight and height then you know your BMI, it takes seconds and costs nothing. Weighing in water takes a special apparatus, pool, and time. A DEXA scan is even better but guess what it takes? Time and money. BMI is a cheap and easy way to tell the doctor he might want to look for other things, by itself it means nothing but a lot of people sure don’t like to hear it.
BMI just never made sense to me on a units basis.
BMI is, and always has been, a joke. According to BMI, pretty much every professional athlete (or anyone with a muscular build) is “obese”. It is a useless measurement.
Ya gotta look like a Kenyan marathoner to pass the BMI chart.
When I see a fat person, I don’t need a measuring tape or BMI index to figure it out.
And if you’re fat and you can’t figure that out on your own... There is nothing in this world that will help you, except to stop stuffing your face with food.
Bmi chart always indicates I’m too short
A subject is first weighed in normal conditions and then reweighed while sitting completely submerged on an underwater chair attached to a set of scales. The differences in the dry and underwater weight measurements can then be used to calculate the buoyant force acting on the person while under water, which in turn can be used to determine their volume, given the known density of water.
This system for measuring body density is poorly designed and won't work unless the each person being measured floods their lungs with water. If they don't drown themselves, they will be able to game the system by exhaling before the test, thus reducing their buoyancy and increasing their submerged weight over someone identical who doesn't exhale. If our lungs are filled with air, we are all variably buoyant and thus, inconsistently dense. It is doubtful the inventor of this approach has ever actually tested anyone in this way.