Whats your BMI (and is it a 'realistic calculation?)

Must be down to the mythical heavy bones

It’s not a myth – I read that MTBers have a 30% denser skeleton than other athletes due to the vibrations etc, but other athletes also have denser bones than sedentary people.

However how much actual weight that equates to I have no idea 🙂

I think that is Greipel?

82kg on the Lotto Belisol site

Indeed he is – that is a pretty big difference to the TdF site!

48 with a BMI of 19.

“You have a lower BMI than 99% of males aged 45-59 in your country”

“You’re most like someone from Bangladesh”

KOM material 😉

call bullshit on that – try John Rocha & Next trousers, I need 36″ to be comfy. Mind you every bit of fat I have is on my gut.

I know what you mean and I know its standard in the ragtrade to ‘flatter’ customers.

My gut hangs over the waist band – well I say hang – it sticks out abit more than it should. But I still wear the same Diesel jeans from 10+yrs ago.

My DG pants, recent fatface cargo pants (quite nice), All saints jeans etc- are all listed as 34″. Bet I’m closer to 35″ but gut bigger.

What annoys me is road cycle shirt and lycra sizing. It seems to be ALL OVER the place.

My Le Coq top is XL – fits perfect. I had to go to XXXL on a Peaks council one.

47, bmi 24

bmi = 20. I’ve always been skinny, although I like to think of myself as athletic rather than malnourished…
At school we were doing body types and the teacher selected me out as a representation of an “ectomorph” body type. Thanks for that teach, that helped my confidence no end.
I cycle a lot, and can never sit still hence I also eat quite a lot. What p1sses me off was someone brought a cake into work the other day and after cycling in I scoffed 2 slices – which was commented on as “have another slice you look like you need it”. Yeah maybe I better eat yours you fat fVcker*
*thought, but unfortunately not said.

My problem is losing the last four kilos. I’ve been doing 350km a week since April and while the last six kilos have come off pretty readily, I seem to be stuck at 84kg as a low point and from there it very easily goes up to 85.5kg if I have a slightly indulgent weekend.

I’m not saying I can’t lose it, I just don’t know how to do it.

Lord knows I’m no expert but I reckon you need to mix it up a bit – some upper body weight training, maybe running or swimming.

For me, cycling just doesn’t take weight off, unless I do lots and keep and extremely close eye on what I eat – running seems to work far more effectively, mainly because it suppresses my appetite when cycling makes me want to eat everything in the kitchen (as does swimming). More time efficient too.

My problem is losing the last four kilos

I’m going to drop to 92kg’s. Protein powder, fasted rides and lots of veg.

46 and a BMI of 24.9.

I lost a couple of stones a few years back and my mother-in-law suggested I didn’t lose anymore, as I’d look ill.

6’2″ish, 77kg, bmi 22, and i could do with losing a bit.

(apologies for mixing units, i blame thatcher)

i don’t even know where Burkina Faso is…

I think for girls clothing sizes should be… from biggest to smallest 🙂

Your mum/auntie
Your mate
You…. On a good day
After a 6 month diet
Victoria beckham and alexa Chung only…

So when you buy something and it looks big on you, you can say “its my mums, or its my mates”

I know, no need to thank me

Wahoo, my BMI is actually 33, down 1 point. Puts me as a Tongan, which in rugby player terms is probably a fair position in terms of body shape, limb girth and torso shape. 😆

Those pics up there – who the hell is on the right? It looks like Greipel suffers from the same “drive side leg syndrome” as me, albeit on a rather grander scale 🙂

EDIT: Robert Forstemann – chuff me, that is really not normal!

I’m 28 ish on normal calculations. Which is I think a touch harsh. I should be light but people who know me think I’m thin

On the height corrected one I’m 25.1 which seems more realistic. It seems obvious to me that squaring the height is unfair to tall people

I was at least 10kg lighter in my early teens high I think that put me at the other end of the healthy BMI range

On the right is Robert Forsterman – Track sprinter.

I’m 32, 188cm and 75Kg (and about 9% BF when last measured) gives me a BMI of 21.

30″ waist and reasonable upper body strength, I should be a better climber than I am :/

45 years old
BMI 24

Read it and weep you fat bastards.

37 years
1.8m, 72kg
BMI = 22
“New” BMI = 21

I could still loose some fat from around my stomach, but I like food too much.

37 years
1.72m
78kg
BMI = 26

I think slightly overweight is fair. I know I need to shed 5-6kg. But beer, curry and crisps are great!

40, BMI of 26 which is down from 31 in January. As for clothing sizes well the 32″ jeans I bought at the weekend are actually 34″ in circumference and I bought a small shirt that fits which is frankly ridiculous!

100! (Not my BMI!)

I’m also BMI of 28. 6’2, ~100kg.

BTW I’ll eat my hat if Forstemann is hormonally normal.

His thighs were measured at 34 inches around.

19 in my skinny student days (30″ jeans)
28 at my weight training peak (38″ jeans)
28 (again) in my sans exercise wilderness days (36″ jeans)
22 now with my cycling obsession (32″ jeans)

BMI is a silly measure. How can you take something seriously that doesn’t work for anyone on the taller or more muscular end of the spectrum? The comments on turning fat into muscle are as ill informed as those who think that muscle turns to fat when you stop exercising – it’s a physiological impossibility. I’m actually heavier since I got back into mountain biking because I’m stronger but I’m far fitter despite being almost overweight according to BMI…

How can you take something seriously that doesn’t work for anyone on the taller or more muscular end of the spectrum?

Because the vast majority of people aren’t really tall or really athletic?

I think my BF is lower now (based on observations and clothes) than it has been in the past when I’ve been lighter. But I’m a more powerful rider now than I was then.

22.5 – 188cm & 79.5kg.

I could probably lose some extra wobbly bit around my waist, but bulk up in my top half. I don’t actually want to weigh any less than where I am, just replace a bit of fat with some core/upper body muscle.

I’m nearly in the middle of the normal. That’s fine by me!

Because the vast majority of people aren’t really tall or really athletic?

I didn’t say really tall or really athletic, I said tall or muscular. I’m 5’10.5″ and I’d say not that much broader of shoulder than average and am more often called skinny than fat and my BMI is 24. Lift a few weights and I easily go over the ‘healthy’ limit and if I was an inch or two taller and the same build there’s no way I’d be within the 18-25 range.

I didn’t say really tall or really athletic, I said tall or muscular

The point still stands. BMI is a very good and simple guide for the majority of the population. That’s why it’s used. I thinks it was on here that someone said that somewhere there will be a venn diagram of “people who say BMI is crap” and “people for whom BMI is crap” and there won’t be a lot of crossover!

am more often called skinny than fat

because the majority of the UK have no idea what skinny or fat looks like any more. Apparently 81% of women my age are bigger than me. I’m a 39 year old size 10.

I have never had wobbly bits, incidentally, or anything hanging over my belt.

I thinks it was on here that someone said that somewhere there will be a venn diagram of “people who say BMI is crap” and “people for whom BMI is crap” and there won’t be a lot of crossover!

Aw thank you, my legacy here is complete 🙂

22.49 on the height adjusted one.

Easily within the healthy range but my wife says I look like a scarecrow and my mother (bless ‘er) says I look like someone from a WW2 Prison Camp!’You look just like so and so when he came back to the village after the war’ style.

I think that the BMI not working for really muscly is fine. Its a tool that could never cover that. Its not weight corrected for build or proportion of fat

But to me it is completely unacceptable that BMI doesn’t correct for height properly. BMI is a one trick pony. Its your weight corrected for height. If it can’t do that properly then there is no point in it existing

In the past five years I’ve been as high as 85kg and was definitely a fatty and as low as 59kg.

I’m currently 21.7 (176cm x 67.5kg) bang in the middle of healthy, but I have a bit of a tummy and could easily lose a few kgs. As above I look a little POW but 60-63kg feels about right for me, especially on the bike.

As per my posts above, I come under the obese section of the scale, I personally think (and i know i may say different if i was one of the “skinnies”) that the whole BMI thing is just far to much of a generalisation. It is saying you are x weight therefore you are considered “normal” or “obese” and whilst weight is one indicator of health, it is not the only indicator of health.

I participate in exercise most days, have pushed my body on 22 hour long rides, run mountain marathons, played rugby at a very high level, but no getting away from it i am “obese” on the scale, yet recent health check up showed i am healthy when you consider actual tests run by a doctor, not just a sliding scale.

Yet, one of my oldest friends idea of healthy food is salad in his burger, he starts drinking most days at about 10-11am, smokes enough skunk weed that he is part chimney and yet BMI states he is “healthy”.

What if we both did a job where they took BMI as a consideration as whether or not you are actually healthy and whether you should be considered for the job?

You have a lower BMI than 91% of males aged 45-59 in your country

23 on the bbc thingy.

What if we both did a job where they took BMI as a consideration as whether or not you are actually healthy and whether you should be considered for the job?

There is a much more common example. Life Insurance.

If you’re BMI is above normal, you get an increased premium.

I’ve been as high as 85kg and was definitely a fatty

Interesting. I’m 2cm taller than you, and even at 94kg people didn’t think of me as fat and were surprised when I said I was trying to lose weight. I was not at all fat looking, until I would take off my shirt and you could see I didn’t look that healthy.

Still, not much wobbly fat though even then.

25 BMI @ 175cm. 76.5kg

Realistic? who knows, probably good as a guide which I guess is what BMI is all about.

Could probably lose a few pounds of insulation but I’m relatively fit, ride ~100miles a week normally, race regularly and I’m happy enough like this. 🙂