Posted by Racer on December 2, 2004, at 19:10:04
In reply to Re: Measuring body fat, posted by Larry Hoover on November 30, 2004, at 9:35:23
I had the caliper test done a few years ago. Said I was 15% body fat, which seemed so high to me, so you know what was going on with me at the time, right?
But out of all the tests that were done that day, the others seemed much more useful to me: strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, etc. But the body fat, high as I thought it was, did comfort me a little.
And I'm with you most of the way -- all those devices are pretty suspect to me. We diverge on calculating BMI, though: the most accurate measure of body mass is being weighed under water. Rarely done, but it is more accurate than mathematical calculations, by all accounts I've come across.
Otherwise, I'd go with either calipers or mathematics.
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