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How to get my body fat measured!?

TiffaniBarrett
TiffaniBarrett Posts: 369 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
My gym doesn't have callipers (lame) - and it only has one of those machines that you stand on and isn't very accurate.

Is it justifiable to go to the doctors/nurse and get it done there?

xx

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  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    Depends - why do you measure it ?
    do you want a precise figure, an estimation, etc... :)
  • Quickster34
    Quickster34 Posts: 209 Member
    you could do that or buy calipers, bodybuilding.com - anywhere from $5 -$25

    you could do hydrostatic weighing too, thats the most accurate way
  • TiffaniBarrett
    TiffaniBarrett Posts: 369 Member
    Ive never had it measured before and I am curious. I want it to be accurate.

    Hydrostatic weighing...? googling...
  • Quickster34
    Quickster34 Posts: 209 Member
    you sit in a tank of water, breath out all the air, they calculate your bf % off of density - short version
  • easfahl
    easfahl Posts: 567 Member
    I don't really like the online estimation methods much. Caliper method accuracy changes depending on who's doing it and how experienced they are. And the impedence method is very susceptble to tiny changes in even hydration. I'm a shorter, muscular (always have been) female and the other methods always seemed suspicious to me (BMI numbers are off too). I live in a city with a university so I just paid $25 to have them perform a hydrostatic test on me. Hydrostatic test proved impedence was off by more than 25% of BF%.
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