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If you don't have a calculator study handy or you don't feel like doing the math, just click here for a handy body mass index calculator http://www.caloriecontrol.org/bmi.html . So, if we judge my physical condition according to my BMI of 30.86, then I'm "obese" study and I need to lose some weight. As you can tell from my photos, that's not the case. Even though I'm currently not in a pre-competition study mode, my body fat is still in the single digits (9.3% last time I had it measured), which is considered very lean for men my age. Why is BMI a poor measure of health and fitness? It's simply because BMI does NOT take into account body fat vs. lean tissue. Body builders and other athletes carry more lean body mass than the average person and will therefore be classified as overweight if BMI is used as the criteria for measurement. Conversely, someone could have a "healthy" BMI of 19 to 22 and yet have a dangerously high level of body fat (a "skinny fat person").
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