Is there anyway to calculate how much of your weight is fat ?!


Question: Is there anyway to calculate how much of your weight is fat .?
is there anyway to find out of much percent of your body is muscle and how much is body fat .?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
get a body-fat scale.Health Question & Answer

The most common way uses some calipers where you pinch up your fat in a few various places, (back of arm, stomach, leg) and then measure how much fat you can pinch up. Most gym assessmetns include this measurement. It's simple and cheap enough for gyms to purchase the calipers.

There is a method that involves weight of a person in a pool or bath of water since fat floats and muscle sinks. That's possible, but I've never known of anywhere that has the abiltiy to do it.

there's also a device that uses some sort of current where you hold onto two handles and it just electronically reads out a number. It's very simple, but your hydration status can seriously impact how accurate it is.

If you want to be measure, just go to a gym and ask.Health Question & Answer

three words Body Mass Index

3. ways to do this

1. weigh yourself on a scale on land then in the water the difference is fat
example 200 lbs on land 160 lbs in water 40 lbs fat/200 or 20% body fat. (most accurate but hard to do)

2. there are several online BMI calculators based on weight and height including this one at http://www.jennycraig.com/etools/yoursty... (easiest to do but worst accuracy as it does not take into account muscle density or skeletal girth)

3. buy a BMI scale that uses a small electrical current to measure your body's resistance the fatter you are the higher the resistance
(downside can be expensive and inaccurate if you have callouses on your feet)
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yes body composition, athlects get tested alot to find this, ask your doctor or look up on how to do a testHealth Question & Answer

There is away,I on the other hand just dont know.Health Question & Answer



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