Last updated: June 11, 2026
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This Isn't Medical Advice
This isn't a medical website, and the people behind it, the founder, the editor, whoever contributes, aren't licensed medical professionals. Which means nothing here should be read as medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment, a prescription, or a recommendation of any sort.
What the articles do is cover general ground, fitness, nutrition, body composition, the broad strokes of healthy living, all of it pulled from published research and credible health sources. What they don't do is hand you health guidance tailored to your particular situation.
So if you're dealing with a medical condition, a symptom, or really any concern, the person to talk to is a qualified healthcare provider. That's true across a wide range of situations, heart, lung, or circulatory conditions; diabetes and other metabolic disorders; pregnancy or the recovery that follows; any history of disordered eating or a strained relationship with food; injuries, joint trouble, or ongoing pain; mental health conditions; anything you're on prescribed medication for; and anything you quietly suspect but haven't actually had diagnosed.
And don't start, stop, or change a treatment, a medication, a training routine, or how you eat on the strength of something you read here. Run it by a doctor, a registered dietitian, or a licensed fitness professional first.
About Exercise
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If a training decision based on something here leads to an injury or a bad outcome, OurPhysique can't take responsibility for that.
About Food and Nutrition
The articles and calculators here get into general nutrition ideas, calorie intake, how macronutrients split up, protein needs, approaches like caloric deficits or intermittent fasting.
All of this is general and educational. None of it is a meal plan built around you. And it genuinely isn't right for everyone, if you're managing an eating disorder, diabetes, kidney disease, food allergies, pregnancy-related needs, or anything that calls for specialized nutritional care, what you need is guidance shaped to you, not general reading off a website.
If you have any history of disordered eating
This part matters, so we'll say it plainly. Content that involves calorie tracking, macro tracking, or deliberate deficits may not be safe for you, and reading it generically off a website isn't the same as proper care. Please talk to a qualified professional, a registered dietitian or a medical doctor, before putting any dietary information from this Site into practice. If you're struggling, reaching out to an eating-disorder support service in your area is worth far more than anything a calculator can tell you.
About Calculator Accuracy
The five calculators here run on well-established formulas, each from published research:
- BMI Calculator — the standard CDC/WHO formula
- Body Fat Calculator — the US Navy method, developed by Hodgdon and Beckett back in 1984
- TDEE Calculator — the Mifflin-St Jeor equation from 1990
- Macros Calculator — working off standard sports nutrition guidelines
- Ideal Body Weight Calculator — a blend of the Hamwi, Devine, and Robinson formulas
Every one of these gives you an estimate, not a lab measurement. None of them accounts for the full picture, how your metabolism actually runs, your particular body composition, your genetics, medical conditions, medications, all the things that shape real-world results.
Roughly how accurate they are:
| Calculator | How accurate, roughly |
|---|---|
| BMI | A blunt instrument — it can't separate muscle from fat, so it works as a rough screen but misleads for athletes and a lot of body types. |
| Body Fat (US Navy) | Usually within roughly 3 to 4 percent of more precise approaches like a DEXA scan. |
| TDEE | Can be off by 15 to 20 percent from what someone actually burns. |
| Macros | A general starting point, not a prescription written for you. |
| Ideal Body Weight | The formulas date from the 1960s to the 1980s and carry limits now well documented across different body types and ethnic backgrounds. |
So wherever the calculators land, treat that as somewhere to begin thinking about your own body. Not a diagnosis. And not something that stands in for a real medical assessment.
Where Our Information Comes From
Across the articles you'll find citations to peer-reviewed research, to government health agencies like the NIH, CDC, and WHO, and to established institutions such as Mayo Clinic and Harvard Health, with links back to the originals wherever we can manage it.
Science doesn't sit still, though. Studies get updated, get challenged, every so often get overturned outright. Keeping articles current is something we put real effort into, yet there's no way to promise that every line matches the newest research at the precise moment it reaches you. So for anything that truly bears on your health, it's worth checking against current medical guidance before you rely on it.
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No Guaranteed Results
When articles here mention weight loss, muscle gain, fat loss, or other physical changes, they're describing what general research and population averages point to. Individual results swing enormously, genetics, your starting point, consistency, sleep, stress, training quality, food quality, and a long list of other factors all play a part.
Reading an article or running a calculator guarantees no particular outcome.
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