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12-08-2010, 07:28 PM #1Registered User
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Can anyone recommend a good home bodyfat % calculator?
Hey guys, I've been trying to find my body fat percentage with a tape measure, but all the calculators I've found have been wildly inconsistent with each other.
One test said I have 13% BF (which I know isn't true) and another has said I have 27.8% (which I sure hope isn't true), and others have gotten me various results in between. A couple have told me around 15%, and another couple have told me around 25%.
Can anyone recommend a good calculator to use if all I have is a tape measure?Last edited by nasher27; 12-08-2010 at 07:37 PM.
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12-08-2010, 11:09 PM #2Senior Member ELITE MEMBER
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12-08-2010, 11:18 PM #3Bioidentical Bodybuilder SUPER MODERATOR
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I went through the same thing yesterday. I have a bathroom scale that is supposed to give a bf percentage but it wont work either. I ordered this, but not sure how accurate it will be. Maybe at least I will be able to use it to measure the difference in percentages even if the overall is not that accurate. It was preety cheap too.
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12-10-2010, 12:19 AM #5Registered User
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I'm currently around 176lbs I think and I'm 5'8". I say 'I think' because I don't have a scale at my house at the moment, so I just measure my weight at the gym after workouts.
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It seemed that the tests that required more measurements (and not just my waist and neck etc.) would generally give me a lower BF%, so hopefully that means that I wasn't as fat as most tests were saying.
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What do you think you'd have to weigh to see abs?
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It seemed that the tests that required more measurements (and not just my waist and neck etc.) would generally give me a lower BF%, so hopefully that means that I wasn't as fat as most tests were saying.
Your stats are almost the same as mine. and i think my bf is 24. One of these days I am going to stop eating the processed sugar that i crave and actually get mine into the teens. But for now its cardio workouts daily so it don't go to 28.Don't tread on me!!
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I'm not entirely sure, don't abs start to show themselves at around 12-13% bodyfat? I'm definitely not anywhere near that point, as almost all of my fat is around the belly/love handles area. Originally Posted by Built
Going off of this set of pictures, I'd say that I look most like the 3rd picture down. I definitely have that awkwardly large belly thing going on.
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12-11-2010, 01:44 AM #9Bioidentical Bodybuilder SUPER MODERATOR
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Okay, you're 18% bodyfat and 176 lbs. Go with that. Assume you have 144 lbs lean mass. You'd probably see abs at 160 lbs. If you're leaner than 18% now, you'll see abs sooner.
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To measure yourself, I am having good luck with this combination. Accu-Measure 3000 calipers (Amazon has them cheap!). And this online calculator Body Fat Calculator 6 formulas to calculate body fat percentage . I use the Jackson/Pollack 3 method.
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