Quote Originally Posted by bloodchoke View Post
In the Navy, they measured our BF by subtracting our neck measurement from measurement around the belly button. Then they'd plug that number into a table under our height. If someone was slightly skinny-fat, they'd read as being obese; if they were fat enough to have a double chin, they'd read as being between 9-12% body fat. It was ridiculous.

I'd be about 1% if I was at my "ideal body weight." If you have even slightly more than average muscle mass, BMI is useless.
Navy recruiter tried to get me to sign up during the spring of my senior year of school. And I was really interested in what he was selling. Got to the particulars of age/height/weight. All was good until we got to the height/weight. I'm 6' 2" and was about 250 at the time. I had rolled out of wrestling season about 2 weeks before after having cut 30 lbs during the season. According to him my max weight was 202 at the time. Tried to explain to him that my making that weight was impossible. My lean body mass was 207 at the time. We kept going back and forth with him saying I could easily drop it if I would just go jogging with him a couple days a week. After I told him sure I would go with him but if he quit before me he would have to accept he would never get me to 202. Our last practice we had spent close to 3 hours running in circles in the gym prior to state finals. For some reason the recruiter never took me up on my offer.