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Originally Posted by Red Circle How have you been measuring the body fat %? Are you using the calipers or the electronic one's? | Bioelectrical impedance analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I am using a machine which is based on BIA. I have this at home, picked it on one of my US trips. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gagan.js Son of a...6.6% BF, surely it isn't healthy to be at that number all year round
Please tell me your ripped and not just thin
On the measuring part, I've only tried with measuring tapes. |
I am not thin by any means, I used to be when I was 50 kilos. Now I am 72-74 kilos at 5'10" ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) And no I am not double boned or gifted with genetically heavy skeltal structure
How do you measure fat with tapes - oh ok got it, using this formula (weight in pounds, waist in inches at navel) ![](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/iipcache/133140.jpg) for women, and ![](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/iipcache/133141.jpg) for men.
Found it on wikipedia at Body fat percentage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As per this formula, I am at 8.1% body fat (weight 73kilos i.e 160 pounds, waist 30inches) Quote:
Why doesn't the family think about how you can save your gf if some incident were to happen, these people na...always thinking negative
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I think they are more worried about the bodybuilder goonda being that heavy incident which happens. I agree though, positive thinking is important Quote:
Originally Posted by harry10 Personally i feel electronic one's give more accurate %. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Circle I have heard calipers are more accurate than the electronic ones because the accuracy of the electronic machines depends on what time of the day one is measuring which is not the same withthe calipers. |
We need to be clear on accuracy vs precision and repeatability. The caliper method can be very accurate, if done appropriately. However the BIA method is very repeatable and precise. So if I measure myself every evening, it shows the same fat %age and other values. Lets say its inaccurate and off by 2 - so I am 9% body fat instead of 7%, however if my body fat dropped by 9 points - I know thats good (whether it dropped from 18% to 9% or 16% to 7% is irrelevant for me). My body fat used to hover between 13-14% and now it hovers between 6.6 to 7.2%. So i am farely clear that it has dropped.
In terms of maintaining fat %age, I would like to keep it at 9% as per the BIA machine I have at home. So i am off to eat well now to get to 9 from 7% and boy do I enjoy food
Edit - I used the same machine to measure my roomie and a fat neighbour. The neighbour doesnt work out and has always been at 35%, while my roomie just recently started working out and dropped from 24 to 19%. So I am sure the machine is working fine!
Last edited by jassi : 20th May 2009 at 15:14.
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