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• bwcomet89

  O-Trap;1391958 wrote:Dear sweet Moses, I would hope so.

  My brother has a name on here and is 6'10", but never uses it, but I want to see someone on here over 7'. The OC deserves it. Also we need a 400 pounder! Someone has to come out of the woodwork and step up.
• Curly J

  

  bwcomet89;1392729 wrote:My brother has a name on here and is 6'10", but never uses it, but I want to see someone on here over 7'. The OC deserves it. Also we need a 400 pounder! Someone has to come out of the woodwork and step up.

  
  Cool...but NCF could still leg press Him, Otrap, Mirg, and Me...just saying.
• Sonofanump

  5' 11", 185. BMI says I'm 25.8 and overweight. Derp.
• like_that

  

  Sonofanump;1392834 wrote:5' 11", 185. BMI says I'm 25.8 and overweight. Derp.

  BMI is a joke. When will they get rid of that shit?
• Sonofanump

  like_that;1392838 wrote:BMI is a joke. When will they get rid of that shit?

  What sucks is that they still use it for health screenings. Measure my body fat bitches!
• FatHobbit

  

  like_that;1392838 wrote:BMI is a joke. When will they get rid of that shit?

  I work for an insurance company and BMI makes me angry. But I doubt they ever get rid of it because it's an easy number to calculate and people don't like math.
• GOONx19

  

  It's still not great, but Ideal Body Weight is a little more accurate IMO.
  
  IBW for Males = 106 + (6lbs x inches over 5 feet)
  
  Rule of thumb is 75% of IBW is underweight, 125% is overweight.
  

  Sonofanump;1392834 wrote:5' 11", 185. BMI says I'm 25.8 and overweight. Derp.

  So 215 would be your "overweight" mark. But again, it's still not very scientific.
• FatHobbit

  

  GOONx19;1392855 wrote:It's still not great, but Ideal Body Weight is a little more accurate IMO.
  
  IBW for Males = 106 + (6lbs x inches over 5 feet)
  
  Rule of thumb is 75% of IBW is underweight, 125% is overweight.
  
  
  
  So 215 would be your "overweight" mark. But again, it's still not very scientific.

  Any measurement that looks at weight and height but doesn't account for the difference in weight between fat and muscle is going to be inaccurate.
• GOONx19

  

  ^ Of course, but there's no quick, inexpensive, and readily available way to measure body fat content. Hydrostatic weighing is too difficult for normal facilities, air displacement plethysmography is too expensive, dual x-ray absorptiometry is both too technical and too expensive, and bioelectrical impedance and skinfold assessments are both inaccurate. Healthcare providers have to have something to go off.
• Sonofanump

  GOONx19;1392855 wrote:It's still not great, but Ideal Body Weight is a little more accurate IMO.
  
  IBW for Males = 106 + (6lbs x inches over 5 feet)
  
  Rule of thumb is 75% of IBW is underweight, 125% is overweight.
  
  
  
  So 215 would be your "overweight" mark. But again, it's still not very scientific.

  215 would be "obese" for 5' 11".
• Heretic

  

  Sonofanump;1392893 wrote:215 would be "obese" for 5' 11".

  Yeah. At a shade under 5'10", I can definitely say that when I've been 215, I've been a chub-muffin. But then again, according to BMI, at 170, I'm barely under the obese line (as big as a person could be while not being "obese").
  
  So...all these quick "are you fat or not" calculations suck.
• GOONx19

  

  Sonofanump;1392893 wrote:215 would be "obese" for 5' 11".

  My bad, you're right. Which is the same as obese for BMI, so I guess they're really no different.
• FatHobbit

  

  I would say a simple waist measurement would be just as accurate if not more.
• Sonofanump

  GOONx19;1392916 wrote:My bad, you're right. Which is the same as obese for BMI, so I guess they're really no different.

  179-214 is considered overweight with BMI-25-29.9. Maurice Jones-Drew's BMI is 31.2. Flawed.
• GOONx19

  

  I'm not disagreeing with you. But people with muscle mass should know that they are norm, at least in this country.
• Sonofanump

  Oh, I know your not. Just super flawed way of looking at things.