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mirekrusin
1998 days ago
That’s because muscles are heavier than fat, right?
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treis
1998 days ago
BMI assumes you have an average amount of muscle. Any weight above that is assumed to be fat. So for someone like the Rock it treats a lot of muscle as though it were fat.
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rhino369
1998 days ago
It also doesn't a good job of modeling ideal weight for short or tall people. BMI models a human in only two dimensions.
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pmalynin
1998 days ago
They are more dense, yes.
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