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There's a lot of helpful "diet" advice (short of brain eating) on this thread
Well its started our 8 week annual work ‘celebrity fat club’ campaign to get office staff fit . Note the 'words' are not mine
Last year on 9th Jan I weighed 102.5kg with shoes no jacket
This year I weigh 102.7kg with shoes no jacket but with a train ticket in my pocket
Sad to have gain the stone I lost in the summer
I think you will see the use of BMI by health pro's phased out over the next few years. The latest thing (as far as I know) which is supposedly the best predictor of heart disease, is the hips/waist ratio. I can't remember what the ratio is though, but its based on the theory that fat carried around the middle is more dangerous than fat carried anywhere else. (Can people with fat bottoms breath a sigh of relief? ).
Height/weight ratio (BMI) is certainly more accurate than body weight, but you're right to say that its inaccurate. I once knew a bloke who applied to the police force. He was the National Junior Decathlon Champion - this bloke had a 10.something time for 100meters, he could pole vault, throw a javelin over 70metres - in fact he was the next best thing to Superman without an ounce of fat, but the police turned him down for being 'overweight'!
Scales are for fish and apples, not people. Clothing is best. Body fat machines are crap too but thats another story.
I got one of these a good few months back. I plugged in the batteries, put my fingers on the contacts and after a few seconds I was calmly told I was morbidly obese !!
I'm not slim.. I have "love handles".. but obese? especially Morbidly so? I think not.
I'm 6ft tall, 14 st. Not much in the way of muscle up top but have "strapping" thighs. In Aberdeen I tend to walk everywhere and of course, now I dance (of sorts)
Podgy? yes! Fat? perhaps! Obese? Non!
If you still can, get your money back!
They're supposed to send an electrical current through your body that can pass through anything bar fat, and whilst they weigh you at the same time, its a simple sum to calculate the difference between total bodyweight and fat, eventually arriving at a percentage.
The issue is with the amount of information that you need to tell the machine so that it can 'calculate' your fat percentage. It varies from machine to machine, but some want to know your sex, your height, your weight, your 'frame', and your level of cardiovascular activity. If you tell the machine anything different (such as change the sex from male to female), it gives you a different answer. In other words, its just estimating your body fat, based, I suspect, on the amount of fat in a small area of your body (I suspect just your calf). Now, I could estimate somebody's body fat too, given that information, and that's without them standing on me - although my prediction might be more accurate if they did!
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