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Waist-to-hip ratio takes more time to change than VO2Max, it can even negatively change as a subject exercices more (e.g. they put more muscle than lose fat)

Waist-to-hip is a good predictor for generic subjects who otherwise never cared about improving their health. If the goal is to actually improve health, that assumption stops being true and you can't rely on generic heuristics anymore.



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