Ash_EP3
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Registered: 15th May 07
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Just had mine checked and it turns out I have 26% bodyfat 
Im about 10% too much 
However in saying this I just checked it up online and it says I should be 31% bodyfat for my height and size!!!??? 
What percentage are you?
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bigdan
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Registered: 4th Jan 07
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i dont know mine
but my mate had his done one time, it said he was annorexic for his bodyfat but over weight on his BMI 
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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28.7 according to a test I've just done.
Its not accurate for me though as it doesn't take in to account people who work out who are going to be heavier than the average weight for their height.
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Ash_EP3
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Yea that BMI is a load of bollocks, it says I am on 29. which would be pretty overweight... Im 6'3 16stone so therefore a rugby player or a bodybuilder who is 6'0 and 18stone of muscle would be obese
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Fonz
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i had an assessment at the gym few years back and they said i was a "concern" that i had such low body fat - great excuse to eat cakes and general rubbish!
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
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how do you work it out?
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
100% according to a test I've just done.
Doesnt surprise me.
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Ash_EP3
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quote:
Originally posted by C2RL R
how do you work it out?
They use a small handheld machine, which you hold onto and it sends a electronic current up & down your body....
then it shows up at the end!
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AdZ9
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All those machines are bollocks, theres only 2 ways to get a real bodyfat% taken, and only 1 of them is conclusive really.
1 is to go to someone who knows how to use calipers and get them to measure it that way
The second way is the best and ultimate way which is to go to a water tank and be measured that way, thats how all the footballers/athletes get theirs tested .
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
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so what do they do? measure how much water your body displaces?
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AdZ9
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Hydrostatic Weighing Tanks
This method is the most accurate but also the most uncomfortable. You sit on a scale in a large tank of water and blow all the air out of your lungs, then submerge yourself in the water completely. You stay underwater for 5 seconds, while your underwater weight is recorded.
You have to make sure no air is trapped in your lungs, otherwise the test will be inaccurate and your results will make you appear fatter.
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Patrick
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Registered: 25th Apr 02
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Mine is currently 19.6% but I am bulking at the moment..
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by Marc
100% according to a test I've just done.
Doesnt surprise me.
Shut it fatty.
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STEvieXE
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Registered: 21st Jan 03
Location: Ballymena N.I.
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there is an estimate on the maximuscle website altho it told me mine is 20. something. which i dont believe to be correct
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Carl
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quote:
Originally posted by AdZ9
Hydrostatic Weighing Tanks
This method is the most accurate but also the most uncomfortable. You sit on a scale in a large tank of water and blow all the air out of your lungs, then submerge yourself in the water completely. You stay underwater for 5 seconds, while your underwater weight is recorded.
You have to make sure no air is trapped in your lungs, otherwise the test will be inaccurate and your results will make you appear fatter.
there is another one isn't there too, but stilll not full on accurate. the ones that bounce a wave through your skin in a sonar fashion, detecting layers ?( i could have just imagined it though!)
Best one to use is the mirror, you can see if you are fat or not to be fair. Obviously doesn't give you a percentage but you know if you are fat, or too skinny.
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dna23
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Registered: 1st Nov 04
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Military method: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kurilla5.pdf
taken from: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kurilla5.htm
Good read 
I was 13% with calipers last time I was measured.
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A1EX
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a mirror does fine for me, not interested in numbers, aslong as im happy with how i look thats all that matters
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mav
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Registered: 19th Jun 01
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I got my Body mass index thing done at work for medical to wear breathing apparatus and i am perfect fro my height etc...............
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jmucorsasport
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Registered: 28th May 02
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bmi is shit
skin fold calipers need to be sent back to the stone age and are also shit. Too many variables, the main one being i guarantee you wont pinch exactly the same place every time, you wont pinch the same amount of skin each time, and you may get different people doing the test.
hydrostatic weighing is number 2 behind a machine called the BCA - Body composition Analysis, using electrodes and bioimpedance signal, it travels through muscle, water and fat in your tissues and works out Metabolism, body fat percentage, also intra and extra cellular water retention, and gives accurate recommendations as to to where you need to be.
[Edited on 27-03-2008 by jmucorsasport]
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