Body fat measurements

Hi there.

What is the best way to get your body fat % ? And were can you buy such devices if possible?

It would be best to get a someone who knows how to operate body fat calipers to do it for you. Perhaps an experienced personal trainer. Avoid the body fat machine at Virgin active - their readings are a load of shit. You can alo buy calipers at Springbok pharmacy (see link below), but like I said get someone experienced to do it for you.

www.springbokpharmacy.co.za/ProductList....oryID=71&ParentID=12

Botma i like ur avatar. Funny as shit:laugh:

STUARTF wrote: It would be best to get a someone who knows how to operate body fat calipers to do it for you. Perhaps an experienced personal trainer. Avoid the body fat machine at Virgin active - their readings are a load of shit. You can alo buy calipers at Springbok pharmacy (see link below), but like I said get someone experienced to do it for you.

www.springbokpharmacy.co.za/ProductList....oryID=71&ParentID=12

Just as Stuart says.

Way too much efford and the problem is finding someone that knows how.

Doesn't anybody know where to have it done reliably in Jo'burg?

Its not that difficult. I know how to take the measurements.. I think someone here said that USN has a caliper and its cheaper than the springbok ph 1..
Regards

Romp3L, which formula do you use?

I got a spreadsheet. U put in the different measurement from the caliper readings into the spreadsheet. Ur weight and so on. and it gives u a lean mass ,preffered weight and bodyfat reading. U take the measurements from ur back,tricep,stomach,waist,thigh and calve me thinks. Take measurements with a measuring tape too.

Regards

i just use calipers, either 4 point or 7 point, and have taught my training partner to use them well enough so he can take mine.. 4 point test without fail always comes in 2% odd higher than the 7 point, so just take those sort of things into account as well as whoever is doing it really does need to know what they are doing, you cant just read the spots in a manual

USN body fat callipers are a bunch of crap!!! Even if you use decent body fat callipers to obtain your body fat there are several formulas that can be used and they are not 100% correct. The machine at the virgin active gym is even worse! Taking body fat from just your biceps wtf! The best ways is to go and do the test where they way you in water and set up lasers to determine what your body fat is. Not sure where you can get this done and I’m sure the cost involve would be high. If you really want to know your body fat go to a personal trainer at the gym, hopefully he knows what he is doing, and ask him to measure it with body fat callipers that are metal and look decent and not plastic, he should also do the one where he measures several parts of your body and works on the formula and not the one that works according to a chart as this is crap as well.

you can get that done at sport science down here in CPT except its gonna dent your wallet quite substantially i think..? Heard the lowest they ever measured someone there was Shameen at something insane (not saying i believe this as i assumed it means he would be dead) like 1.9%, the fat is displayed in black groupings and the only locations were apparently his brain and his organs.. 1.9% seems a bit like bull to me, was probably 2.9%. Think below 2% means you are dead ha ha...