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Two More Ways to Calculate Your Body Fat Percentage

In case you missed it we looked at two ways to calculate your body fat percentage to help you arrive at the ideal body fat percentage in women or anyone for that matter.

Okay. Here are two more ways to calculate your body fat percentage:

Bod Pod
If you want more accuracy than skin calipers, find a health club that uses what's called a Bod Pod. That's an egg shaped chamber with a scale inside. Once inside, you stand on the scale as pressure sensors measure the amount of air your body displaces to calculate your body volume.

The Bod Pod works a lot like underwater weighing. Only it's quicker, and less scary. As long as you wear a swim cap to cover your hair so it doesn't trap any air (which can skew the results) it's accurate to within 2-3%.

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Completing this look at how calculate your body fat percentage is the

DEXA method
DEXA stands for dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. (Aren't you glad it's referred to as DEXA instead?) This technique scans your body using very low dose x-rays to determine your body fat percentage. All you have to do is lay on a platform for maybe 20 minutes and be scanned.

To sum this up the most accurate body-fat testing methods are underwater weighing, the Bod Pod and DEXA. While skin calipers is the approach used most often.

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