[tzs]

Amusingly, if you go by BMI, quite a few pro athletes are overweight, or even obese. (This is a good illustration of how idiotic BMI can be...).

For instance, Michael Jordan was slightlu overweight according to BMI. Shaquille O'Neal was past overweight and into obese. Wilt Chamberlin was overweight.

Leaving basketball for boxing, Muhammad Ali was well into overweight. Mike Tyson was obese.

How about American Football? I'm going to exclude line positions since a large part of their job is to be a wall and so we'd expect them to go for mass. Quarterbacks Dan Marino and Joe Montana: overweight. In fact, five of the last six Heisman Trophy winners (who were all quarterbacks) are overweight, and one is obese. The last four non-quarterback Heisman winners were running backs, and two were overweight and two were obese.

[vskarine]

so true, I've never been in better shape in my life, I recently ran ultra-marathon and can easily bench press my own weight 10 times but my physician told me I am overweight and should loose 15 pounds because my BMI is over 25. I wanted to take his head off.