Health Screening Rant

[Joe S.]

They just had a free health screening here at work, go around the thing get your stuff checked etc. etc.
The thing that really aggravates the hell out of me is the BMI.
How on Earth do they use this for measuring people and give these numbers to people, I don't understand it is so flawed. My BMI said I was 28.0 which is at the end of overweight and 2 points away from obese. Being into fitness I know that's a crock of shit, but for your average guy or girl getting these numbers thrown at you I think that's way misleading.
It pisses me off because I get dinged for that with my annual health insurance premium, they give us discounts for the healthier numbers but I get screwed with this every year. Rant over!

 

[44YOGearHead]

I feel you. From the time I joined the Corps I was always dinged for my weight. In Boot Camp one of the D.I.'s almost put me in pork chop platoon because we had on the grey sweat shirts that were all big to fit me, fortunately another D.I. noticed my build (210 pounds at the time, age 17) and told him to hold the hell up cuz I was built. That one mistake would've had me on a severely reduced caloric intake versus the satndard 20 seconds to eat and be outside or get smoked meals we had. I left MCRD San Diego weighing 166 pounds reporting into School of Infantry. BMI standards are definitely full of shit.

 

[Joe S.]

Wow yeah it friggin sucks, there should be a "muscular" check box or something lol , I Don't expect them to have million dollar testing equipment, but we can replace a heart, you would think you could pretty cheaply measure a little body fat.

 

[mickc1965]

Its about time the medical profession learned how to use skinfold calipers and do the JP3 as a minimum and calculate body fat rather than BMI, better still they should calculate ones FFMI


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[Joe S.]

Yeah they need to do something, but I guess like my company they save money by calling me fat! lol Bastards!!

 

[bodean30]

I fucking HATE BMI with a passion. It's like they created it because the average person isn't supposed to have muscle. Such a crock of shit. Unless they worked fat percentage into the equation it makes no sense at all.

I just ran my BMI to see what it's looking like. According to that I'm "overweight" sitting at a 25 bmi. Right... Also hovering around 10% bf as well.

Thanks for getting me fired up. About to unleash some BMI rage on some plates right now...

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[PHURIOUS]

When u r are muscular and heavy bmi means nothing at all

 

[BigBusiness]

I agree BMI is bullshit, as we all know we are all bigger than your average joe, but that does play a role on your heart and unfortunately thats what insurance companys are looking at

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[RickRock]

Just forget about BMI bro. I have routine health screenings at work every year, and every year I get the same results back saying I'm obese based on my BMI. That's hysterical considering I'm single digit bodyfat at around 8%


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[MaxxPursuit]

Just forget about BMI bro. I have routine health screenings at work every year, and every year I get the same results back saying I'm obese based on my BMI. That's hysterical considering I'm single digit bodyfat at around 8%


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Yep... BMI is very flawed.

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[DylanGemelli]

i act like bmi does not even exist because its fucking pointless... all i ever ask for is body fat... that tells exactly whats needed, not this other bull shit