{"id":40,"date":"2019-10-31T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inbody.in\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:45:00","slug":"are-you-a-fitness-ista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inbody.in\/blog\/are-you-a-fitness-ista","title":{"rendered":"BMI vs Body Composition: The Truth About Fitness BMI Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fitness is not a number on a scale.<\/strong> Yet most of us still judge our health by weight alone. In fact, BMI, the most widely used fitness metric in the world, was never designed to measure fitness at all. Furthermore, it cannot distinguish fat from muscle, and it has no way to detect the dangerous visceral fat that builds up around your organs. As a result, millions of people who appear “healthy” by BMI standards are, in reality, carrying serious metabolic risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, the question is not how much you weigh. The real question is: what is your body actually made of? In this article, we break down the 5 body composition metrics that tell the truth about your fitness and explain why InBody’s body composition analysis<\/a> is the only tool that measures all of them accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

98.4%<\/strong>
InBody accuracy vs DEXA gold standard<\/td>		60 sec<\/strong>
Time for a complete InBody scan<\/td>		5<\/strong>
Key metrics BMI completely misses<\/td>		101M<\/strong>
Indians living with Type 2 diabetes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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