Measuring bodyfat

[Generic MALE]

I am sure someone else will have a similar question at some point so here is the link to acsm : http://www.acsm.org/index.asp

 

[Dave949]

LOL...now we're REALLY splitting hairs.

You took the words right out of my mouth Bro, I`m not gonna even touch this one, LOL

 

[Bulldog_10]

Oh, and a couple of times I asked for a link. I will just google and look it up. It would have been easier to do that in the first place than asking a simple question, then have it derailed every which way.

I mean that is why people ask questions here in the first place is to save time getting answers - sure everyone could find the answer on their own to every single question that is asked here. But they ask hoping to save some time and making a short cut to hopefully credible accurate information by taking advantage of what other people have already learned. The point of asking questions is to take advantage of the hard work others have already done so one does not have to repave the same road over and over again, reinvent the wheel over and over again,...

Oh brother. You're not paving a road or reinventing wheels, you're doing a search on google...which takes what, 30 seconds?

 

[wend]

Generic, if you really have that much trouble having someone else see you without clothes, then you ought to get the Accumeasure calipers as Majutsu suggested. (They're cheap, btw.) They're the only ones designed to allow someone to measure themselves. AND, as he said, they're as or more accurate than the sum3 calculations

 

[Dave949]

Yo...Generic Male .....I can say with all honesty....if you are 6`1", 215 lbs. at 8/9% BF..... you DO in fact possess a very good physique. I hope you can resolve your self image issues. There are many people in this world who would pay good money to have what you have.

As far as asking a simple question on the board and watch it evolve every which way is not uncommon here. The folks here take fitness very very seriously and we all do tend to split hairs over relatively simple things.

I am very surprised this post did not veer off into a debate totally unrelated to calipers like bicep peaks or rest/pause vs. forced reps !!! lol

Pump on .....

 

[Daisy_Girl]

If your avatar is your real picture I cannot imagine you feeling too DE-motivated.

It IS my real picture, and regardless I DO feel DEmotivated by BF% sometimes. Results never happen fast enough - whether it is losing BF or gaining muscle. It all takes too long.

 

[Generic MALE]

Oh brother. You're not paving a road or reinventing wheels, you're doing a search on google...which takes what, 30 seconds?

Well, at this point I see that you are correct - it certainly would have been much easier and faster to do a search than to ask here.

The only problem is establishing credibility. I am sure there are many sites, but which have credible information. I will look at this acsm site and see if I think they are credible too - are they one of the weekend courses you take to be a sports training expert?

 

[Generic MALE]

It IS my real picture, and regardless I DO feel DEmotivated by BF% sometimes. Results never happen fast enough - whether it is losing BF or gaining muscle. It all takes too long.

Yeah I hear ya. I am sure a great many here have the same problem, when in reality average Mr. or Mrs. AmericanFatAss would kill to look like people here. My wife is a professional photographer and I had her take some photos of me last summer - I can get nekkid in front of her-but I could never post them out of insecurity. I have a friend at the gym who use to play pro ball as an end and he was always trying to talk me into showing some skin - because year round I tend to wear a sweat shirt or T shirt and long sweat pants - he felt I should show off my physique. I actually went and bought to sleeveless shirts. When I walked into the gym he yelled from the other side "Hey Mr.Muscles, nice muscle shirt" - Needless to say it was the first and last time I did that. When I was in college this lady who ran an exotic dancers group tried to recruit me to be a male dancer (stripper) - the money seemed great at the time but there was not enough liqour in the midwest to get me to get nekkid in front of a bunch of screaming ladies.

I am sure many if not most here have the same problem to varying degrees - why else would they buy who knows what in a underground vial and risk shooting into their bodies?

 

[Generic MALE]

Yo...Generic Male .....I can say with all honesty....if you are 6`1", 215 lbs. at 8/9% BF..... you DO in fact possess a very good physique. I hope you can resolve your self image issues. There are many people in this world who would pay good money to have what you have.
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hell I paid good money to have what I have and fat lot of good it does me. I hate to think how much extra I have paid in gym fees, gear, supplements, food, protein powders and how much of my life has been spent over the last 5 or so years searching the net for a better way to do it. Although I have put on tens of pounds, lost 10% of my body fat - I can't say its changed my self esteem at all.

Dr. Maltz was a famous plastic surgeon back in the 70's who remarked how he frequently would perform beautiful facial reconstructions on people , but how they would still see themselves the same. he wrote a book ...I think it was called psychocybernetics about this phenomenon. Our self esteem was likened to a thermostat - if we performed out of line with our self image we would do something to bring it back to what we percieve - good or bad. And how hard it was to alter that set mechanism of who we felt we "are". I am not sure one can change self image much...or self esteem....although self confidence can be altered. Self esteem and self confidence are similar but significantly different.

 

[Bulldog_10]

Well, at this point I see that you are correct - it certainly would have been much easier and faster to do a search than to ask here.

The only problem is establishing credibility. I am sure there are many sites, but which have credible information. I will look at this acsm site and see if I think they are credible too - are they one of the weekend courses you take to be a sports training expert?

The ACSM is definitely credible...probably the most credible organization out there when it comes to anything related to exercise. I don't know what you mean by weekend courses...but they do offer a variety of exams to be certified in different areas.