It's unusual for you to be so jacked that muscles skew your bmi significantly.

I'm in similar position. But keep in mind that most of the population does not workout. For example, childhood obesity gets worse every year and BMI is used to measure those rates. I don't think the statistic is skewed by children being muscular.

This post was edited by dark-soul on May 2 2016 12:33pm

fixed.

I go to the gym and though i'm not especially muscular and still pretty lean, i would count as overweight. For me it really skews it.

Inb4 i'm either a fatty in denial or suffer from the never-big-enough syndrome

Due to BMI being inversely proportional to height squared short subjects like children will not give a similar output to adults. This basic system of BMI isn't very useful when determine children's obesity.

I'm sorry but once again your post is incorrect. I don't know why you're so opposed to BMI being used when it has been shown to work fine for the general population. BMI is modified for different age-groups and genders. Your posts just show you haven't looked into the topic very much. Here's a link explaining BMI for children.

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/defining.html

This post was edited by dark-soul on May 2 2016 02:39pm

I have researched this and it would behoove you to read what you linked which agrees that the BMI standard for adults and children are different and the simple calculation used for adults will not net effective results for children

Yes that is what I said in my post and what the article states. They use a modified BMI for children. I thought your post was implying BMI should not be used at all since your previous posts were against the metric. I must have just misread your post.

This post was edited by dark-soul on May 2 2016 02:49pm

No, I know it is used but I am saying it is used differently. I agree and understand.
I still see BMI primary used because of its simplicity and cost-effectiveness and not something people should focus their primary attention on rather than body fat measurements.

This post was edited by majorblood on May 2 2016 02:51pm

Yeah I agree that is why it's used. But that's simply because there isn't a better test to use when examining large groups of people. There is a strong correlation between BMI and obesity though so don't discount the metric entirely as it is a very valuable tool which has been backed up by many large-scale studies. Obviously your doctor would do a more thorough exam than simply looking at your BMI since it can vary from patient to patient. I myself am almost in the overweight range in the BMI scale simply due to working out so I hear what you're saying.