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I suggest you buy skin fold calipers and avoid the electronic calipers, in which many lack millimeter measurements.
Skin fold calipers are cheap and accurate, look for something sturdy. From what I hear the cheap ones tend to have only 30-40 measurements before they wear down.
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QUOTE (azfittrainer @ Mar 23 2006, 08:32 AM)
Why not get a scale. The calipers arent gonna be much more accurate if your doing them yourself
It's not very hard to measure your own body fat % using calipers. The body fat scales are skewed by hydration levels among other things. Calipers are probably your best bet, and are cheaper as well.
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all you have to do is sign up, and then it asks you to take measurments of your body parts with a tape measurer. Then type your measurments in, and it tells you your bodyfat %
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QUOTE (Gary46080 @ Mar 23 2006, 01:25 PM)
QUOTE (azfittrainer @ Mar 23 2006, 08:32 AM)
Why not get a scale. The calipers arent gonna be much more accurate if your doing them yourself
It's not very hard to measure your own body fat % using calipers. The body fat scales are skewed by hydration levels among other things. Calipers are probably your best bet, and are cheaper as well.
Its not gonna be much more accurate to do your own skin measurments. Most people dont get accurate pinchers, and don't know what there doing. As long as your hydrated a scale will give you the right ball park. Besides the trend is more important then the actual number
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calipers are probably the best method.......anything sending an electrical current through your body would be inaccurate cuz if u flex or you have water in your bladder or even food in your stomach could mess up the readings......plus calipers are cheap as hell and it only takes a few minutes to get moderately accurate reades
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QUOTE (slikkballa31 @ Mar 26 2006, 05:07 PM)
calipers are probably the best method.......anything sending an electrical current through your body would be inaccurate cuz if u flex or you have water in your bladder or even food in your stomach could mess up the readings......plus calipers are cheap as hell and it only takes a few minutes to get moderately accurate reades
you gotta be kidding me dude, none of that changes the readings
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i have used 3 electronic sclaes and they all put me 18-21% bf the BN caliper gives me a 12.4 with a 7 site reading i think that is more acurate then then scale look at my pic i cant be over 18%
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You have to be properly hydrated, a good scale like Tanita is pretty accurate, and works well. It measured me at 12.5, and my coworker got me with good calipers at 10.5 It's just really hard for people to do their own bf, and be objective, and do it right. Most people screw up the placement, and how to seperate fat from muscle. But no, judging from your pic your not 18%. It actually amazes me how poorly some guys on here under estimate their bf%
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At home bodyfat test, Any recommendations?
