Measuring Body Fat %

[crxdog]

how do you do it?

Height
Weight
Age
Sex ?

dunno

 

[poysyn]

calipers or a water tank are the more accurate methods..there are calculators out there that involve other things but they are typically inaccurate as your weight, height, etc do not necessarily correlate to body fat percentage.

if using calipers make sure to take the measurements in more than one spot as you may be more prone to store more bodyfat in different places

 

[crxdog]

calipers or a water tank are the more accurate methods..there are calculators out there that involve other things but they are typically inaccurate as your weight, height, etc do not necessarily correlate to body fat percentage.

if using calipers make sure to take the measurements in more than one spot as you may be more prone to store more bodyfat in different places

You mean a pinch test?

Whats the water tank method?

 

[Ingram]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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[crxdog]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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Jesus

 

[OUfan]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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Are you serious?

 

[dabuffguy]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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LOL. that's hilarious. you had me for a second there. i was like WTF?

 

[GUARDIAN]

the cheapest most available somewhat reliable (+/-4%) thing u will have access to is calipers. there are many ways to measure this. u can google the many types. some have u take a couple readings and others take many. supposedly the more u take the moe accurate it is......

 

[poysyn]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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ah..non-electric..thats why i havent been able to pull this method off

 

[BIGBUCK$]

Fill up your bathtub and put a non-electric scale at the bottom.

Lay down and completely emerse yourself in the water. Blow up and read the scale...

Take that number, add 41 and then times it by 5.3889 then divide it by your age minus 14. That will get you your hydrostatic bodyfat measurement.

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lol good one bro

 

[Ingram]

lol, I was hoping someone would try...

Most universities have a hydrostatic dunk test, you can get a bull body analysis for reasonably cheap. That's your best bet...

Calipers are a decent second choice. For most of my clients I use the Jackson Pollock method. For serious bodybuilders over 200lbs the Parillo method is better.

I'll post the equations on here if anyone wants them.

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[crxdog]

lol, I was hoping someone would try...

Most universities have a hydrostatic dunk test, you can get a bull body analysis for reasonably cheap. That's your best bet...

Calipers are a decent second choice. For most of my clients I use the Jackson Pollock method. For serious bodybuilders over 200lbs the Parillo method is better.

I'll post the equations on here if anyone wants them.

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Hey dude just got out of the bath tub with the scales stuck to my ass was really hard staying under water and trying to read the scales. . . . . haha

Yeah post up the equations

 

[deathdroprob]

I read the 1st way. I was like, My Scales arnt electric!