Fitness Question: How to measure body fat?

halik

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I'm kinda curious as to whats my body fat level. Is there any easy/reliable way to do it at home?
 

dxkj

Lifer
Feb 17, 2001
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Get a scale that includes body fat. Uses Electrical impedence or something like that. It fluctuates a bit depending on water content in your body etc, but you get an idea within a percent after measureing several times a day.



Scale costs about 40-60 dollars where we got ours (wedding gift)
 

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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The less-accurate informal method: There's a freeware program out there called WinFAT that calculates it based on tape measurements of the neck and the stomach.