{
  "article": "body-mass-ffmi",
  "language": "en",
  "figure": {
    "title": "The same athlete, three body-fat assumptions",
    "caption": "Calculated example: 90 kg, 1.80 m. Only the assumed body-fat percentage changes. At this height the original normalisation adds zero. The figures are not empirical observations or recommended body-fat targets.",
    "labels": [
      "Assumed body fat",
      "Fat-free mass",
      "FFMI"
    ],
    "unit": "kg/m²"
  },
  "data": {
    "kind": "table",
    "origin": "calculation",
    "formula": "FFM = 90 * (1 - body_fat/100); FFMI = FFM / 1.8**2",
    "rows": [
      [
        "12%",
        79.2,
        24.44
      ],
      [
        "15%",
        76.5,
        23.61
      ],
      [
        "18%",
        73.8,
        22.78
      ]
    ],
    "precision": 2
  },
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}