As a girl who lifts weights almost daily with a muscular bodybuilding physique is this a good scan?

[Anonymous]

I’m 5ft tall for reference

[Sonorous]

If I were you, I'd just ignore all the random metrics because we'll never truly know that stuff unless we go get extensive scans.

In my opinion, the only things that matter is that we're getting all the essential nutrients our body needs, that we're challenging our muscles, getting enough sleep, managing stress well, etc.

If you want to track your weight, the best thing you can do is track it over the course of a few weeks, take an average of the most common weight differences, then apply it to the previous day as a good weight reference. From there you can do something like how I do.

I know my caloric maintenance is 2,270calories so I use that as a reference when finding the difference for calories consumed per day. Knowing that & having a good weight reference allows me to be able to track weight fluctuations without even having to weigh myself everyday:

The highlighted portion are my weights so far this month. I'm not that heavy, I'm just holding on to extra water weight. My true weight is closer to the calculations beside it because they're going based on a former accurate weight reference. This is why I say take the average over the course of a few weeks because it may give you a better idea of your true weight.

[molonski2]

Based purely on this numbers and I doubt they are correct..

What is the actual goal? Body fat is too high , and thats affecting some other areas , BMI also ( but BMI was not work so well with Bodybuilding ) ..

Maybe get / invest in a proper accurate test?

and at 5ft , you can goal a low body fat.

[Anonymous]

These things are known to not be accurate but it’s good enough to give an overview of your body conditioning. Based on the numbers alone I think there are things that needs an improvement depending on your goal.

Your body fat is still healthy (for females, we need more fat to function otherwise it’ll disrupt your endocrine system). Visceral fat is the fat surrounding your organs (they’re not visible to the naked eye), ideally it should be around 10% ish so you might need to work on lowering that. I’ve been told that losing visceral fat is mostly about your diet and stress management. (Might explain your “high” metabolic age give how young you are).

I don't know how accurate your muscle mass calculations is but based on the numbers it’s saying that 68% of your weight comes from you muscles and it just doesn’t make sense…

[caitycat21]

If you actually want an accurate measurement you need to get a dexa scan. A fitness scale won’t be able to accurately calculate your lean body mass

[Asker]

So it’s not right

[caitycat21]

It’s probably wrong. If you actually have 117 lb of muscle mass that would put 68% of your total body weight being made up of muscle - most elite female body builders only have around 44-55%

[Billlewis]

Oh my goodness... are you super smart or what?

[Asker]

Yea did you look that up

[exitseven]

I am not sure what it is for girls but maybe your body fat is still a little high. What is really significant is what it was a year ago.

[jahaims]

That's a healthy range. Females need more/ have more body fat

[exitseven]

@jahaims I sort of knew that but I do not know what a healthy range is for girls. For guys is is less than 20%

[jahaims]

For females, it's like 18-33%. Don't quote me on that it's from memory. They have breasts made up of mostly fat that contribute to that as well. If I remember right, I think their organs have more fat as well.

[Anonymous]

I'll need to analyze your bowel movements to be sure

[Lynx122]

Your BMI and bodyfat seem high.

[debtfree_oneyear]

What scale do you use?