Recent content by d80p

Yup, listen to the lady. Even if we assume that the bioimpedence methods are giving accurate bodyfat measurements which isn't always the case (If you look at the bioimpedence numbers are off by an outrageous amount when compared to the hydrostatic), skinfolds caliper and a decent mirror are...

Oh BTW Vixi...that is a damn nasty looking picture, she looks like the poster child for Feed the Hungry. I think you made your point nicely.

Blech, I just woke up. When I said overcompensate their fat free mass, I meant fat mass. Changes the whole meaning of my sentence huh?

Okay let me revise again, actually I do know what we used as a standard, age, sex and bone density were taken into account, and I can only assume that the standards were for the average caucasian. Most of my class were athletes and therefore for the most part had less fat mass, while I'll go...

Well for the numbers above they didn't correlate. So I guess I should revise my statement and say, skinfold site measurement of the average athletic white coed did not correlate with his/her hydrostatic measurement. ....I don't know what we were using as a standard for the fat caliper testing...

I think her FFM was 110 not her total body weight.

Gender Hydrostatic % Fat Skinfold Fat Bio Imp %fat M 35.7 14 27.9 M 39 15.5 33.5 F 42 21 28.4 F 20.21 14 44 F 21.86 17...

I was looking over some test for hypogonadal/HIV+ research papers, when I noticed their section on testing methods for calculating one rep max which will be used as a standard for measuring strength increase, etc.... It went something like below: "Measurement of muscle strength. 5 min rest...

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