You will be able to determine your body mass index (BMI), your body fat percentage, and your genetic muscular potential (GMP) by only using a scale and a tape measure.
Come back soon.
You can read more about the tool in Take the Fat Test – Body Composition
Body Mass Index (BMI)
| Your BMI NN.NN |
X | Underweight (< 18.5) |
| X | Normal (18.5 to 24.99) | |
| X | Overweight (25 – 29.99) | |
| X | Obese (>=30) | |
BMI Plan – Build Mass
You are not alone, but you have a problem many of your peers would love to have. You need to gain weight. Using the BMI guidelines you do not carry enough mass for your height. Start with nutrition and building muscle.
A few suggestions include these programs:
- Anabolic Cooking
- No Nonsense Muscle Building
- No Nonsense Muscle Building
- Turbulence Training Metabolic Conditioning
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BMI Plan – Keep It Consistent
Well done grasshopper. You’ve maintained your weight at a good level for your height. Now your challenge, if you are willing to accept it, is to keep it consistent as you go forward.
You may want to check out your Genetic Muscular Potential. Think about your goals and desires for how you look. You can transform your body or just keep it where you are at.
Just be sure to celebrate a little. You’ve managed to maintain a healthy weight. That’s awesome.
Here are some programs that might help you maintain where you are at today:
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If you want to transform your build, take a peek at these programs:
- Anabolic Cooking
- Live Large TV
- No Nonsense Muscle Building
- Turbulence Training Metabolic Conditioning
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BMI Plan – Burn and Build
According to BMI guidelines you have more mass for your height than recommended. Watch your body fat measurement as well. The combination of these two measures gives you a better glimpse into your overall body composition.
Most likely your plan should be to burn off some extra weight. As you burn off that weight also look for ways to build some muscle.
To burn fat check out the latest program from Joel Marion and Craig Ballantyne.
Other programs that can help you burn fat include:
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BMI Plan – Burn Baby Burn
According to BMI guidelines you have more mass for your height than recommended. Watch your body fat measurement as well. The combination of these two measures gives you a better glimpse into your overall body composition.
Your plan should focus on burning fat – burn baby burn.
To burn fat check out the latest program from Joel Marion and Craig Ballantyne.
Other programs that can help you burn fat include:
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Body Fat
| Your Body Fat NN % Your Lean Muscle Mass NNN |
X | Essential (10-13%2-5%) |
| X | Athletes (14-20%6-13%) | |
| X | Fitness (21-24%14-17%) | |
| X | Acceptable (25-31%18-24%) | |
| X | Obese (32+%25+%) |
Body Fat Plan – Careful
I’d love to hear from you. From my understanding you are either not healthy, or dangerously shredded. This level of body fat is quite difficult to maintain and some even consider it dangerous. Be careful.
Body Fat Plan – Keep it Real
You are living large and most likely loving all life has to offer. Keep it up.
To get to this level you’ve worked on your nutrition and most likely pushed yourself with interval training. Keep at it with these programs:
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Body Fat Plan – Crank It Up or Maintain
Nicely done. You’ve worked to stay away from the normal trends for us office workers. You’ve kept in shape and kept body fat levels down.
These programs can help you keep moving towards more lean mass. Either crank it up or maintain.
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Body Fat Plan – So Close, Keep at It
This level is where most skinny/fat people exist. First time I heard that term I thought it sounded sort of offensive, but as I thought about it more I just accepted the title. For many years this was me. I was neither fat, nor really in shape. I just … was.
Now hear me out. This isn’t a bad place to be. After all the guidelines call this level of body fat acceptable. What I finally realized is that this level will not turn heads, nor let me be the type of weekend warrior I longed to be. I had to choose to accept that I was so close and kept at it.
Give these programs a look for some motivation to push to the next level:
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Body Fat Plan – Get Lean and Drop Some Weight
This is where most of us start. Something happens and we decide to make some changes. Get lean and drop some weight for your health and your looks.
Here are some programs to consider to help burn fat, get lean, and drop some weight:
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Genetic Muscular Potential
| Lean Muscle Mass: NNN |
| Bodweight: NNN |
Works Cited:
- Body Mass Index on wikipedia
- DoD Physical Fitness and Body Fat Programs – a PDf that outlines the research and methods used by the military to monitor body fat with circumfrence-based methods of measurement.
- Genetic Muscular Potential – I used this article by Casey Butt extensively for the calculations and measurements for GMP. This is an indepth article also referenced by Lyle McDonald on GMP.
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