fat Percentage went up?

stanmann571

AnvilHead wrote: »

It sounds like that trainer is a typical "big box gym" trainer who knows a lot more about selling memberships than anything else. When I signed up at my current gym, the trainer offered me a free initial consultation which included a bodyfat assessment. I asked her how they measured it and she told me they used one of the BIA machines. I told her no thanks, not interested. I could get a measurement just as accurate by throwing a dart at a dartboard.

Well it's Gold's so not only is it a big box gym. It's the brand that invented the big box gym.

Honestly, I had a chance to ride one of the new premium 6 point multiwave machines at an assessment, and I was suitably impressed by the clarity of acknowledging and accepting the possibility and margins for error.

They claimed +/- 3% IIRC and the readout was suitably detailed and informative regarding likely ranges of hydration, lean body mass and fat mass

Silentpadna

Agree with others to not take stock in the machine's measurements.

That said, conceptually it's very possible to lose weight, and plenty of it, and still maintain or increase body fat percentage. You can do that by excessive caloric deficits and your training be almost all cardio. That's why it's important to eat exercise calories and use resistance training to preserve lean body mass.

You have a very active gym routine - and although you haven't talked about intake, I hope you are fueling your workouts.

Silentpadna

annamarie0408 wrote: »

Well I personally attend classes Monday-Thursday and on Saturday (which are included in the Gym Membership) so I honestly don't want to pay $300+ for a trainer for a month (that is just me though). Monday I do 2 hours of Zumba, Tuesday I do 1 Hour Zumba then 1 hour weightlifting class, Wed is Spinning Class, Thursday is 1 hour weightlifting class then 1 hour zumba. Friday is my free day so I either do Cardio and weights or I do swimming and Saturday I do kickboxing class, Sundays are my break days.

I am sure with doing all that and eating on track I should be able to slim down, it might take a year to get where I wanna be but I am sure it can happen if I keep this up. Heck, per my iWatch I burn at least 1000 calories on Tuesday and Thurday classes and aroound 400-600 on the other classes.

Your TDEE is somewhere between 2700 and 3100 (moderately active and active) as inputted into Fitness Frog. 2708 and 3014 on Scooby.

I looked at your diary, which suggests you eating 1300 calories per day. I'm assuming that means you are trying to lose 2 pounds per week. If you are maintaining the activity you describe, you may not be eating enough. 2700 is moderate, and I think you are probably more than that. This means that you could be eating 1700 or more calories per day and still be on track with your goal - if it's 2 pounds per week.

Please take a close look at that. If you under-eat with all that activity, there can be issues with that, as I mentioned previously with respect to body fat percentage.

deannalfisher

stanmann571 wrote: »

AnvilHead wrote: »

It sounds like that trainer is a typical "big box gym" trainer who knows a lot more about selling memberships than anything else. When I signed up at my current gym, the trainer offered me a free initial consultation which included a bodyfat assessment. I asked her how they measured it and she told me they used one of the BIA machines. I told her no thanks, not interested. I could get a measurement just as accurate by throwing a dart at a dartboard.

Well it's Gold's so not only is it a big box gym. It's the brand that invented the big box gym.

Honestly, I had a chance to ride one of the new premium 6 point multiwave machines at an assessment, and I was suitably impressed by the clarity of acknowledging and accepting the possibility and margins for error.

They claimed +/- 3% IIRC and the readout was suitably detailed and informative regarding likely ranges of hydration, lean body mass and fat mass

I've had a similar one done - I think it was a 4 point (both feet, both hands) multiwave machine (2 different frequencies, for 5 points (trunk, L/R arm, L/R leg) - and gave me a read out that included total body water, total lean muscle mass and then body fat

fitmom4lifemfp

annamarie0408 wrote: »

Mainly because of how much he made it seem like a bad thing. Regardless the fact that my clothes are not as tight as they were a month ago or the fact my skin is clearing up He made the .1% seem awful. He was like, you need to watch your food better, do more of this and that, and just made me feel awful. Heck I lost 3 pounds in a month, which isn't amazing but for me and with my how body holds onto my weight it made me happy. Also, I have been working my butt off in the gym for the past month and for them to tell me I'm getting more fat than muscle sort of makes it depressing.

I told him I personally didn't care about my weight because of my body, I will always weight more than the BMI scale says I should. As long as I am healthy and have a nice body frame I could weight high number and not care. Its really just with how they acted when they saw the number go up instead of down.

So that is why you are posting this? Oh my. FAHGETTABOUT it. You are losing weight, and working out. He's just a guy that makes a few bucks an hour at a gym trying to motivate folks. Stop worrying.

brookielaw

water weight, when you measured, etc. play a part in these handheld devices. A caliper is far more accurate and a DEXA scan will be even more accurate. Small devices that measure via electrical current, like a home scale or the handheld device, are incredibly inaccurate. Try not to let it get you down.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

brookielaw wrote: »

water weight, when you measured, etc. play a part in these handheld devices. A caliper is far more accurate and a DEXA scan will be even more accurate. Small devices that measure via electrical current, like a home scale or the handheld device, are incredibly inaccurate. Try not to let it get you down.

calipers can be off too

stanmann571

brookielaw wrote: »

water weight, when you measured, etc. play a part in these handheld devices. A caliper is far more accurate and a DEXA scan will be even more accurate. Small devices that measure via electrical current, like a home scale or the handheld device, are incredibly inaccurate. Try not to let it get you down.

CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »

calipers can be off too

Since the OP hasn't come back to let us know if it was a handheld or commercial model. All that's certain is that it's at least as inaccurate as any other estimate.