BMI - Body Mass Index - or Bl**dy Misleading Info
The Wiki entry doesn't think much of it either. The author must be fat!
Mrs W is a bit of a fitness freak has a set of scales made in Japan which pass a current through you feet and tell you how much body fat you have. After you've given them certain information such as age and height, it then categorises you. At 21% bodyfat (yesterday) it categotised me as "6" which translates as "Lean muscular".
I like those scales!
Mrs W is a bit of a fitness freak has a set of scales made in Japan which pass a current through you feet and tell you how much body fat you have. After you've given them certain information such as age and height, it then categorises you. At 21% bodyfat (yesterday) it categotised me as "6" which translates as "Lean muscular".
I like those scales!
But then again, for a Wookie, that's probably correct, Dan!
What excellent scales!
Anyway, what's wrong with bmi - it's the second largest airline at London Airport, according to its website.
What excellent scales!
Anyway, what's wrong with bmi - it's the second largest airline at London Airport, according to its website.
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Just from the opposite side of things:
My BMI is 22.2, but I can tell you now I'm slightly fat and incredibly unfit. I used to have a BMI of 22, but cycled 20+ miles a day and circuit trained twice a week. It seems the muscle I've lost has allowed a lot more fat in.
The biggest thing I notice now? that my belt buckle is warm when I stand up after sitting down for any length of time.
Body fat percentage has skyrocketed. 9% to about 18%.
People still call me skinny.
My BMI is 22.2, but I can tell you now I'm slightly fat and incredibly unfit. I used to have a BMI of 22, but cycled 20+ miles a day and circuit trained twice a week. It seems the muscle I've lost has allowed a lot more fat in.
The biggest thing I notice now? that my belt buckle is warm when I stand up after sitting down for any length of time.
Body fat percentage has skyrocketed. 9% to about 18%.
People still call me skinny.
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BUPA
Do not assume you will get any commonsense re BMI from the medics at Cranwell, pass/fail.... next. Sorry to put it so bluntly.
Find out what the limit is and ensure that you are under it. Initial entry medicals have strict pass/fail criteria, once in there is some flexibility within acceptable limits of degradation/expansion!
Mates attempting to rejoin with over 20 yrs experience and having never failed a medical whilst serving are coming a cropper when attempting to rejoin because the quacks assess them to initial entrant standards. BMI has been one of the issues. Look on the bright side, sorting it in your twenties should be a damn sight easier than trying to undo 20 yrs abuse in your forties.
Do not assume you will get any commonsense re BMI from the medics at Cranwell, pass/fail.... next. Sorry to put it so bluntly.
Find out what the limit is and ensure that you are under it. Initial entry medicals have strict pass/fail criteria, once in there is some flexibility within acceptable limits of degradation/expansion!
Mates attempting to rejoin with over 20 yrs experience and having never failed a medical whilst serving are coming a cropper when attempting to rejoin because the quacks assess them to initial entrant standards. BMI has been one of the issues. Look on the bright side, sorting it in your twenties should be a damn sight easier than trying to undo 20 yrs abuse in your forties.
Look on the bright side, sorting it in your twenties should be a damn sight easier than trying to undo 20 yrs abuse in your forties
BMI 29 to BMI 25 in just two months. (For me that meant loosing just over 2 stone.)
Could not have been easier and with no extra exercise!
Just used a well known English VLCD and monitored its effectiveness using 'ketostiks'.
To me, in hindsight, it seems simple; one spend years eating extra sandwiches and "glueing" them all over one's body, like a mobile larder. The only way to use up all those 'old sandwiches' is to stop eating new ones for a while!
Without blowing my own trumpet I probably would grade myself as "athletic level" fitness. Some cheapo Body Fat/BMI Calculator from Superdrug (that should have warned me) gives me a BMI of 32... which according to googled content makes me bloody fat. Complete bolleux.
I so much refused to believe the Superdrug machine that I forced my whole family to go through the humiliating ordeal with the "machine" right down to my six year old little girl (I am not sure if that counts as mental cruelty). All of them scored between 12 and 20 so something is amiss.
flash.
I so much refused to believe the Superdrug machine that I forced my whole family to go through the humiliating ordeal with the "machine" right down to my six year old little girl (I am not sure if that counts as mental cruelty). All of them scored between 12 and 20 so something is amiss.
flash.
