Originally Posted by caloso
BMI is worse than worthless; it's misleading. BF% is a bit better, but it's still just an approximate proxy measurement for fitness.
Yeah, I like to add a couple more factors into the health equation:
- resting heart-rate
- body-fat% (lean muscle-mass)
- VO2-max
- LT-lactate-threshold
- recovery-rate
All of these combined give a more complete picture of the state of your fitness and health than any single number can.