| Can calculating your body fat percentage help you become lean, fit, and ready to race? | |||||||||||||||
 Probably. If you go by Racing Weight, by Matt Fitzgerald, body fat percentage can be one of the best tools to reach your ideal weight for racing. I might review this book later. Once I lose those last 5 pounds. Kidding. | |||||||||||||||
| But there seems to be a bit of confusion on how to determine your body fat. Take a look at the results below: according to the website I used (based on height, weight, sex, and circumference of your neck, waist, low waist, hip, thigh, wrist, forearm, and bicep), I am anywhere from "obese" (the worst ranking) to "athletic" (the lowest except for "essential"). I think I'll just go buy an inaccurate body fat scale. Results: Using your measurements of a 25 inches waist and weight of 127 pounds your body fat percentage is estimated to be 33.72 % using the U.S. Army body fat algorithm, or 25.08 % using the U.S. Marine body fat algorithm, or 18.99 % using the U.S. Navy body fat algorithm, or 19.37 % using the formula developed by the YMCA. Geez, sucks to be in the Army. |
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I just bought a Withings scale that measures weight and body fat. It gives the option of seeing as a percentage or the number of pounds of fat. That is really really scary. So I take with a grain of salt and think maybe ignorance is bliss.
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard to calculate body fat... I have been told so many different numbers that I sorta gave up on the idea of an accurate measurement :p
ReplyDeleteWould you recommend reading this book??
ReplyDeleteI own this book and have been meaning to read it! I was just thinking about it last night, actually. might need to bump it up the pile of TBR books!
ReplyDeleteI know looks can be deceiving, but you appear to have a very low % of body fat! I haven't had mine tested in quite awhile. I want to do this thing called "the bod pod" at our local university - it accurately calculates your body fat %, allegedly. I have a feeling mine is not as low as it should be. I don't think it's terrible, it's just probably not great!
I use a Tanita scale and they are considered pretty accurate. Not too expensive on sale (I got mine through REI).
ReplyDeleteYes, I am going to do some more research about all this stuff too, I've heard a lot in passing about racing and idea weight and how much time is taken off if you lose X number of lbs.
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