Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
If possible Chasm would you post how to compute the BMI? I want to know mine, I'm sure I'm in the overweight class still. During a flight physical a Flight Physiologist got me a waiver for my weight, he said I was heavily built and my nomogram (sp) he did was in the good range for my build and musculature, I'm no body builder type though.
Doohickie has posted an on-line calculator. The formula is to divide your weight in kilos by the square of your height in metres. So in my case, 1.91 squared is about 3.65. 89 kilos divided by 3.65 gives a BMI of 24.38
Above 25 = overweight, above 30 = obese. BMI was devised as a population measure, to correlate the prevalance of various diseases with increasing obesity, so It is true that anomalies can arise when it is applied ti individuals. Very muscular individuals may have a BMI above 25 with low body fat. However, those individuals are rather less common than some of us like to believe...