Kraziplaya
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welll...i just started a new diet and wanted to find out my bodyfat first... has ne one bought or tried one of those electric scales that measure bodyfat?? im curious to know if they are precise as a caliper....
Bah, these things are crap. During my cutting cycle I used the one at the gym for the first little while. It would tell me I lost 3 lbs in a week, all muscle and gained 4 lbs of fat during a cutting cycle. At best it dropped me from an alleged 24% to 20% in only 6 days.
I should confess that I didn't follow any of the guidelines posted earlier, so maybe that explains my variations. I do suspect that many people would fall into the same circumstances that I do (not owning one at home), rendering the scale virtually useless. $110 bucks is a pretty big gamble.
Getting accurate body fat measures is a very precise science. In order to get the proper skinfold you first must mark the site on your body with a pen; you should be taking 3 measurements and averaging them to get a better reading, so you'll need to know exactley where you measured. Take an approximately 8 cm pinch of skin just above the mark you have made, making sure you did not grab the underlying muscle. Apply the calipers at 1cm below your pinching fingers, and make sure the calipers are at the middle of the fold, not at the base and not at the top where they might slip off. Record the meaure to the nearest .5mm at exactley 2 seconds after applying the caliper (adipose tissue will compress considerably, and it is considered standard to take the measure at 2 seconds.) What you need to understand is that skinfold techniques are plugged into the appropriate equations which give you BODY DENSITY, body fat is then predicted from body density using yet another formula. I can give you both if you wish, and the equation I use is derived from the sum of 7 skinfolds, which is arguably much more accurate than the standard 3 site method. It uses, chest, midaxillary, supscapular, suprailiac, abdominal, front thigh, and tricep site, and very specific attention must be made to exactley how to landmark these sites.BUMP