[Optical Goddess]

Hello,

I am going to up the weight portion of my work out to incorporate more leg work ( right now I just do squats)... as I was doing my homework, I came to realize that the scale is not the holy grail. Yeah, I want to lose weight, but what's the point of weighing 140 but still having a good amount of body fat?

Because I can't afford to get a body comp done, somewhere on 3FC I found this site... fit.to.gether.net, and it has a body comp thing on it where you measure yourself and put the amounts in.... I did it myself which may ( and probably isn't ) not be accurate, but it's a starting point for me...

My question: How accurate can that be? Isn't body comp rather individualized? I am not liking the number I see, but if it's close to my reality, so be it, but I am just curious about other people's experiences with this site or w/ methods of body composition and fat percentages..

Thank you so much!

Optical Goddess ( In training)

[northernbelle]

The only method that is good is the hydrostatic method; even that one has a +3 -3 % error rate, and it costs $$$.

Surf the net and try a few different calculations at different sites. I did that, found a wide variation, and chose the middle one- the U S Navy formula. It may not be accurate, but over time, I have seen a trend (sometimes up, sometimes down). The key is to keep it moving down.

Some gyms will measure with callipers, but those are prone to error unless the person doing the measuring is very good.

Hope this helps...