Estimated body fat (U.S. Navy method)
17.5%
Male, 35 years · fat mass 31.5 lb, lean mass 148.5 lb
- Fat mass
- 31.5 lb
- Lean mass (everything else)
- 148.5 lb
- BMI
- 25.8
- BMI-based estimate (Deurenberg)
- 22.8%
The BMI-based estimate is 5.3 points higher than the tape measure estimate. BMI cannot tell muscle from fat and each method has its own error, so the two often disagree; neither number is a precise measurement.
How it was calculated
- Height
- 70 in
- Waist − neck
- 19 in
- Formula (inches)
- 86.010 × log10(19) − 70.041 × log10(70) + 36.76