There's 5 different ways to measure Body Fat %:
1. Skin Fold Caliper: The “skin fold” method measures your body fat percentage by pinching your fat with your fingers then measuring the thickness with a body fat caliper.
2. Bioelectric Impedance Analysis: determines the electrical impedance, or opposition to the flow of an electric current through the body. Muscle has high water content, and is highly conductive, while fat has lower water content and is not highly conductive.
3. Anthropometric measurements: This method uses body circumference measurements to estimate body fat percentages. The U. S. Navy method takes waist, neck, and height circumference for men and hips, neck, and height for women.
4. Hydrostatic Weighing: This method is considered the “Gold Standard” (+/- 1.5% error) of body fat measurement that requires being submerged in a specialized tank of water. Because bone and muscle are more dense than water, a person with a larger percentage of fat free mass will weigh more in the water and have a lower percent body fat. Conversely, a large amount of fat mass will make the body lighter in water and have a higher percent body fat.
5. Dexa Scan: Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry known as DEXA is fast becoming the “new” gold standard of body fat measurement because it’s based on a three-compartment model that divides the body into total body mineral, fat-free soft (lean) mass, and fat tissue mass. Hydrostatic Weighing on the other hand only uses a 2 compartment model (fat free mass and fat mass).
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This one could help you!
www.healthstatus.com/.../body-fat-percentage-calculator
Although I think the "official" measurement, like for atletes, is through a machine. Some atletes get well below the 10% mark but the question is what that does to ones resistance. You see that top atletes easily catch a cold.
A machine or calipers which are much more accurate. That first guy is talking about BMI not body fat %
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Based on the picture you appear to be between 30-40%, the most accurate measure is Hydro static underwater weighing. Anything over 32% is considered unhealthy FYI.
Google it! I think you measure your height and then your weight. Then you can find on internet definetely if you are over or underweight and if so, how much!
There is like a calculator for that, but those are in accurate cause they don't take muscle mass into consideration there is this machine they have you go on that is the most accurate. I would guess yours is like 18 19 BMI.
I won't guess. guessing is not good :p for body fat % i would need ur weight, height measurement around ur waist, wrist, hips, forearm
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Well let me see I would say 35 percent body fat to maybe 40 percent? A true test would be done in water
why don't you ask a nutritionsit?
I have no, but around 26% for you.
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