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How Can I Determine My Body Fat Percentage

If your question is "How can I determine my body fat percentage?" then I've got the answer. Besides this is a great question to ask. Since asking "How can I determine my body fat percentage?" suggests you're on the right track to a leaner, fitter you.

Now there are four ways to figure your body fat percent.

Underwater Weighing
I discuss Underwater Body Fat Analysis in detail with that article. It's a decent way to address the "How can I determine my body fat percentage?" question. Since it measures how much water your body displaces.

Skin Fold Caliper Test
Another popular one you may be familiar with is the skin fold caliper test

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Now with skin caliper body fat, how it works is a salad tongs like device is used to pinch your skin from various parts of your body. A gauge attached to the tongs measures the width of the grabbed flesh to see how much fat has been pinched. The results are fed into a handy dandy formula. That in turn estimates your overall body fat percentage.

Easy to do but this approach can be off by as much as 5-10 percent. And depends on the abilities of the person holding the tongs. Given that a healthy body fat percentage in women reading ranges from 20-35% that's a pretty big error.

If you like, why not go to page two of this discussion on how to calculate your body fat percentage?

How Can I Determine My Body Fat Percentage