- Reaction score
- 7
- Points
- 230
Seconded on the waist/hip ratio as the best "easy" method of determining if someone might need to lose some fat. From everything I've heard, BMI is not all that useful for individuals, but quite useful for determining the overall health of groups of people, as all those little complications caused by people with extremes on either end of the body fat percentage scale tends to even out. Thus, comparing the BMI of an individual MCpl to that of an Individual Major might be useless, but comparing those of all MCpls to all Majs might give you much more useful information. Or perhaps you could break it into units, to figure out who has the best fitness program, etc.
Oh, and for what it's worth, the "ideal" target Waist / Hip ratio is supposedly around 0.9 for males, and 0.7 for females.
Oh, and for what it's worth, the "ideal" target Waist / Hip ratio is supposedly around 0.9 for males, and 0.7 for females.