Attention, this calculation is not that of the BMI (Body Mass Index). This is a different measurement, you can find more information about BMI on this page .
Fill in your height (in cm) as well as your weight and your chest circumference and we will calculate your ideal weight according to the Bornhardt formula. Despite the notion of chest circumference, the calculation is obviously valid for men. The formula was also intended, initially, for men engaged in the army (1) .
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ORIGINS OF BORNHARDT’S IDEAL WEIGHT & EXPLANATIONS
Bornhardt’s formula (1) dates from its second publication, in 1891 (2) , and is as follows:
It is a formula that seeks to take into account your silhouette, since your chest size is requested.
Bornhardt’s first publication dates from 1886. It is a publication in which he evokes “ the corpulence of persons engaged in the army in order to determine their physical aptitude for military service ”. He cites in particular Quételet (creator of what is now called the Body Mass Index ) because he is believed that the weight of individuals increases in relation to their height. But in addition to height, Bornhardt suggests that individuals’ weight also increased in relation to the circumference of their chest circumference.
However, there is no mention of a particular ideal weight formula in this first publication. It will be necessary to wait for his second publication ( exact date unknown ), where he makes more extensive mention of the relationship between the chest circumference and the weight of individuals, it is then that he suggests his ideal weight formula.
This formula, less popular than that of Broca for example, is nevertheless more reliable for estimating the ideal weight of a person in good health according to the words of H. Gray in a publication dating from 1921 (1) .
Bornhardt, in his first publication, was optimal regarding the relationships he had discovered with respect to chest circumference, but he remained moderate, however, indicating that ” the weight of the body cannot be determined a priori, in an exact manner, simply with height and chest circumference ”. However, he specified that the actual weight of the individual accompanied by his height and his circumference of the chest provided precious data whose relationship was a clear expression of the physical condition of the individual (for military service).
During his second publication, Bornhardt demonstrated even more optimism, indicating that it was actually possible, with these relationships, to calculate the theoretical ideal weight of an individual. The Bornhardt formula was then born. It was then cited many times, by Fröhlich in 1895, by Vierordt in 1906, by Baer in 1912, by Gaertner in 1913, by Barker in 1916, and by Vedder in 1918 for example (1) . All these quotations were made without the Bornhardt formula being called into question once.