What Is Lean Body Weight?
Lean body weight refers to the total weight of organs, bones, and muscles. All tissues in the body, other than fat, are considered part of lean body mass weight. As body mass increases, so does lean body mass weight, as muscles and organs tend to grow larger as body weight increases. Calculating lean body weight can be difficult without the proper medical equipment used to measure skeletal, muscle, and organ weight. Men and women have different mathematical equations that are commonly used to determine lean body mass weight. For men who are more than 16 years old: body weight, in kg multiplied by 0.32810, is added to height, in cm, multiplied by 0.33929 to result in a base sum. This sum must then be subtracted by 29.5336, to determine lean body weight.
