Measurements

Here's a step by step with photos:
How to Properly Measure Your Body

If you've got a buddy to help, it's much easier.

I can never figure out where I should take my hip measurement. Under the butt cheeks? Over? I guess as long as I always do it in the same place each time...

CA_Underdog wrote: »

Myotape. It makes measuring yourself a snap!

rabbitjb wrote: »

I was reading reviews of that and it says it only locks at 1 inch increments so you have to read it in place

True. Reading it in place is easy for most body parts--calves, waist, hips, biceps, and chest--but for the neck, without a mirror, I must pinch the reading before lifting it off.

another review mentioned that it was out by 1.5cm consistently due to the ratcheting tool. Have you found this to be true?

Hmm.. my three closed fully, and while they have 1/8" (0.3cm) markings, I measure to 1/4" (0.6cm), and my measurements have been consistent at that level of precision. Certainly no swings of that magnitude, so I'm not sure precisely what they're meaning by this.

It's like a measuring tape with a second and consistent pair of hands. It's cheap, so don't expect the moon, but it beats measuring tapes and tape measures for self-measuring.