Bodyfat calculation?

Group: General Diet & Nutrition

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 399, Messages: 16719

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7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2003/11/24, 04:33 PM Anyone know how close to truth the online tool here for BF% is? -------------- LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!

	2003/11/24, 04:39 PM Mutt, it calculated mine at about 13%.Mybodycomp.com said about the same. Calipers we bought said 19%. Of coarse I didn't have on my trifocals so anything is possible -------------- Living well is the best revenge. Charlie
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2003/11/24, 04:42 PM wow 6% didfference between the calipers and this site hmmm that is a bummer I went from obese to moderatly overweight and back again! lol -------------- LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
paulinelagasey Posts: 59 Joined: 2003/11/14	2003/11/24, 04:45 PM My trainer has been checking mine with the electronic 4 point system once a week for 6 weeks now. I just checked the FT online tool to see what it says and it's right according to what the electronic one says. I hope that's what you wanted to hear Mutt. Might not be right for everyone else but it's right for me. :-) -------------- Pauline Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amidst the storm.
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2003/11/24, 04:46 PM COOL I WENT FROM 33% LAST YEAR TO 25%!!!!! -------------- LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
	2003/11/24, 04:47 PM Calipers were pretty cheap. May be a good investment. My "picture of organization" wife promptly started a log which she will update monthly. -------------- Living well is the best revenge. Charlie
Taurie Posts: 374 Joined: 2003/10/15	2003/11/24, 05:12 PM The online tool here offended me! I'm sticking to calipers and the electronic ones...these vary less than 1%. The online tool said I had 10% more bodyfat...so it better be wrong.
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2003/11/24, 07:21 PM The tool here didn't come close to my electronic scale. It gave a 10 point difference. Mutt, the 6 point difference between the calipers and the online tool is 46%! Mine is 18 on my scale and 28 on line here. Something wrong somewhere. 55% difference? Maybe my math is wrong? -------------- "A will finds a way" Ivan Montreal Canada
	2003/11/24, 08:37 PM Wait a minute, lemme take my shoes off. -------------- Living well is the best revenge. Charlie
paulinelagasey Posts: 59 Joined: 2003/11/14	2003/11/24, 08:45 PM hahahahaha Had to have burned a few calories with that laugh. :-) Mutt - I bought one of them fancy dancy scales that "supposedly" measures your body fat too. I can get on, get a reading, get off, move it half an inch across the floor and get a totally different reading. I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter what the scale says, as long as it's going down that's fine with me. You are not your BF% anyway! You are Mutt, loved and admired by all on FT. hugs -------------- Pauline Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amidst the storm.