Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Hi folks: As has often been noted here, BMI has its drawbacks. Basketball player O'Neil has BF% of 13% and a BMI of 31.6! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149807,00.html Rodney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Shaq is a freak of nature... in a good way. It's rare to see a big man with his almost " small man " proportions and coordination. A disturbing trend in pro football these days where linemen have bulked up with a lot more than just muscle. Some of them are truly obese. Now there's a prospective group to study the opposite of CR. JR -----Original Message----- From: Rodney [mailto:perspect1111@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:36 AM Subject: [ ] BMI & BF% Hi folks: As has often been noted here, BMI has its drawbacks. Basketball player O'Neil has BF% of 13% and a BMI of 31.6! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149807,00.html Rodney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Rodney typed: > As has often been noted here, BMI has its drawbacks. Basketball > player O'Neil has BF% of 13% and a BMI of 31.6! > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149807,00.html Likewise, I just had my BF% checked, and came in at about 15%, " or a little bit below. " My BMI is 25.3 (slightly overweight). I'm about 20 pounds heavier than my all-time adult low weight of 172, but four years ago I couldn't have cross-country skied 30 miles in a day, nor bicycled 120 miles in a day. I'm not sure where I am in percentage of CR, or even if I would be considered a practitioner of CR. But my BF% has dropped from 33% in early 2000, (when I was 55 pounds heavier than I am now), to 25% when I weighed 175 in late 2001, to 15% in my test at the end of February, where I'm back up to 192 pounds at 6'1 " . I attribute this all to these three lifestyle changes: 1) My attempt at following an ON diet as described in Walford's books, and as advised on this forum. Most importantly, I stopped eating non-whole grains, I cut out as much animal fat as possible, and fanatically avoid anything with added refined sugar. 2) The increased energy I felt doing that, made me feel like doing all of the outdoor activities (skiing, hiking, climbing, & bicycling) that I had given up for being too old and fat. 3) Finding the activities easier, I continued to take on greater challenges, eventually finding my strength and endurance approaching and in some cases exceeding what I did in my 20's (I'm now 47). So to get back to the topic of this thread, I haven't found that BMI is a very good guideline to me, it's just too simple of a test. At the lowest weight I've been in my adult life, I still had a BMI of 23.1, yet all of my family was worried because I looked, " ...so sickly-thin. " I think that an actual caliper and IR body fat percentage test is much more meaningful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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