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Measuring
your Body Fat
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The
most accurate and scientific way to determine your body fat
percentage is by hydrostatic weighing. This test is conducted
in a special tank and compares your weight completely under
(with all air exhaled out of lungs) and out of water. While
hydrostatic weighing is the best measurement, it can be costly,
inconvenient and time-consuming. Other methods of determining
body fat levels, such as the Bod Pod, a device that uses air
displacement instead of water, while more convenient are also
costly and unavailable to most of us.
Another
way to measure body fat percentage is with anthropometric
measurements. Measurements are taken with a measuring tape
at sites where fat is usually distributed, such as the waist
and thigh. Specific equations are used to calculate the body
fat percentage. These measurements while less costly and easier
to do are not nearly as accurate as the use of skin fold calipers.
Overall,
body fat percentage can best be measured with skin fold calipers.
If
done correctly calipers are an accurate, inexpensive and convenient
way to measure the thickness of subcutaneous fat. This technique
involves measuring fat levels in the body by assessing levels
at certain key fat depots with the skin calipers. You can
have the skin fold test performed by a professional, or you
can do it yourself.
Accu-Measure
Calipers
For our purposes we will keep things as simple as possible.
We will only measure one site. The Accu-Measure Caliper is
a precision instrument which has been shown in comparative
studies to be closer in accuracy to the "gold standard"
underwater weighing than any of the more elaborate methods
of measuring body fat.
With
the Accu-Measure Calipers you can determine your percentage body
fat by taking skin density measurements of the supraillic area (approximately
one inch above the right hipbone about five inches or so to the
right of and just below your belly button- see diagram). As per
the diagram, while standing, firmly pinch the suprailliac skinfold
between your left thumb and forefinger. Place the jaws of the caliper
over the skinfold while continuing to hold the skinfold with the
left hand. Than take your measurement as per the instructions and
the diagram. Once you have the measurement, refer to the body fat
interpretation chart below (also included with the calipers) to
determine your body fat percentage.
Download:
Body Fat Interpretation Chart PDF (32kb)
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