{"id":1975,"date":"2024-06-12T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-websitedesigns.com\/david-frost\/v1\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2024-06-13T00:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:39:32","slug":"waist-circumference-vs-bmi-helping-clients-measure-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo-websitedesigns.com\/david-frost\/v1\/waist-circumference-vs-bmi-helping-clients-measure-up\/","title":{"rendered":"WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE VS BMI: HELPING CLIENTS MEASURE UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Educating our clients on how to improve health outcomes certainly falls under the purview of health and fitness coaching. With that, explaining the relevance of body composition, the flaws of the body mass index (BMI), and how stored adipose tissue correlates with health risks, specifically with regard to waist circumference, is an important aspect of coaching overweight clients. Let\u2019s discuss the science and realities of specific measures of gauging overweight as it relates to morbidity and mortality.<\/p>\n

A Weighty Matter<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Trainers provide the best value when they\u00a0assess<\/a>,\u00a0design<\/a>\u00a0thoughtful fitness programs,\u00a0demonstrate<\/a>, educate, and\u00a0motivate<\/a>\u00a0their\u00a0\u201capparently healthy\u201d clients.<\/p>\n

Improved health span, physical performance, or bodily aesthetics are all targets for client motivation. Types of stored body fat, where that fat is located, and how much is present in our adipose tissues are also often training stimuli for many of our\u00a0varied clients<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are several ways to categorize and view adipose tissue or fat: essential or non-essential, subcutaneous or visceral,\u00a0brown or white<\/a>, \u201chealthy\u201d or \u201cunhealthy\u201d can be knowledge and relational challenges for client and trainer alike1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Without essential body fat, we die. Yet,\u00a0excess<\/em>\u00a0unhealthy fat, especially when accumulated in specific body regions increases risks of serious diseases or life-affecting conditions.<\/p>\n

Storage of excess, unhealthy \u201cwhite\u201d fat is called\u00a0obesity<\/em><\/strong>. Obesity, or \u201chaving eaten until fat\u201d was a societal sign of well-being in older, leaner times. We know now that fat storage is\u00a0more<\/em>\u00a0complex than just overeating with regard to one\u2019s individual constitution.<\/p>\n

Genetics, pre-existing medical conditions, physical inactivity, and challenges for estimating \u201cadiposity\u201d\u00a0shape<\/em>\u00a0these individual client-complexities for stored body fat.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

Etiology of Obesity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The root cause of a disease or condition is called\u00a0etiology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Excess energy intake, sedentary lifestyle, stressors like smoking, and genetics can, individually or collectively, determine an individual\u2019s etiology of obesity. Many doctors and health professionals use a population-based \u201csurrogate\u201d number to singly assess a patient\u2019s body mass, usually correlated with obesity, and to implicate future health risks.<\/p>\n

That proxy estimate or \u201cmass\u201d index was developed by Dr. Alfonso Quetelet in the 1830s. His Quetelet Index, for \u201cthe average man\u201d was rephrased as\u00a0Body Mass Index<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(BMI) by scientist Ancel Keys in 1972.<\/p>\n

One modern medical researcher called this BMI screening formula of Dr. Quetelet and Ancel Keys \u201cbizarre<\/a>\u201d pointing out that those who are too short, too tall, or even too muscular would not be adequately assessed.<\/p>\n

BMI = Weight (kg) \/ Height<\/strong>\u2227<\/strong>2 \u00a0(m)<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

We now realize that older folks, women, non-Europeans, and muscular athletes were\u00a0not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0researched.<\/p>\n

Facts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n