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!
I was in the Marines, 1976 I think, when they switched to BMI as a measure of ‘fatbodies’.
A guy in my unit was a body builder and was short. There was no fat on him, but according to the new standards he was fat.
Every day at 2 pm he had to quit his normal duties as an electronics tech and report to Fatbody Platoon for two hours of exercise and jogging.
He didn’t care, he loved it!..............
No. BMI isn’t even that smart. It dates back to the EIGHTEEN 30s. When people were trying to use science to prove that poor people were poor because they were supposed to be poor. So people with high BMIs (either due to muscle mass, cause who works with their muscles, or fat) were clearly chosen by genetics to be “less than” the upper class skinny people. It’s basically phrenology, complete pseudoscience that some idiot resurrected in the 1970s as useful, which it isn’t.
AH!
I'm okay!
5'10", 225 lbs. Now I daren't lose 15 lbs!