I’m confused…..
I’m trying to figure out my true body fat count. I have this weight watcher’s scale that I have to input my age, height and then step on for it to shoot a pulse thru my body to tell me that I’m 28.2% BF. I go online and find a BMI calculator where I enter in my weight and mesurements for my waist, wrist, hips & forearm for it to generate a calculation of 20.59%. I don’t know which one to trust. I just know I’m ready to break the scale because after putting in a good day of eating correctly & a good workout it seems like the BF percentage increases. Scales are bad.
October 2, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Go to a gym and have them test you using calipers…I had some weird test done and it said I was 21% BF, But I am actually 9.5%!!
October 2, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I would say the measurements are likely much more accurate you could go to the forum and post a photo of yourself in the loosing fat section and ask them what % they think you are they tend to be fairly accurate all and all.
October 5, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the advise. The trainers at the gym hooked me up the handheld devise that calculates body fat. I’m happy to say that I’m 18.5% body fat. It’s not 10% but it’s better than 28.2%. Thanks once again.
October 11, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I agree with climber 55, I get measured with the calipers. I have one of those scales and it’s way off. I’ve also done the water tank and that result was the same as the calipers one.
October 11, 2008 at 8:46 pm
MIke, I did the hand held device, and it kept telling me that I was 30% bf! WTH? I lost 10 pounds and it kept telling me the same thing, which I knew was wrong because I had gone down a dress size. So I had the skin calipar test done and am happy to say that I am at 18% which is a lot better than 30%. The electrical empedence measurements in those hand held devices are set for the general population and do not take into account muscle mass and the like. Skin calipars all the way baby! I wish I had enough money to have the water tank test done, but like aragonmod said, they’re prety close to the calipar. Just make sure that the person doing the reading knows how to measure correctly.