Are electronic scales to measure body fat accurate enough?
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MasterMason
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They are not accurate at all, dont waste ur money
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Accurate enough when you do multiple measurements then take the average within a couple % if your speaking about electronic calipers
Now if your speaking of LBM from a digital weight scale not as much
just get some calipers bro. You could do a 4 point pinch test and get pretty damn accurate.
Bioelectric impedence scales to measure bodyfat are extremely inaccurate. They are literally not even close in any way shape or form. For home measuring the best you can do is use calipers, but even those can have a lot of variance unless you know exactly the correct way to measure. It's not a bad idea to go purchase a good digital pair that does the calculations for you and gives you your numbers. That's what I use. You still must make sure you are using the proper technique to make it read accurate
Gymjunkie38
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There absolute garbage last prep 10 weeks out about 8 percent bodyfat said i was 18 percent 4 weeks later dry shredded viens in my obliques said 20 id had better luck with a toy magic 8 ball said 20. Percent and had fucking glute striations useless junk
Gymjunkie38
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Lol.. That's when you shake your head cause you wasted some money.
MaxxPursuit
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I usually just use the caliper method. A buddy of mine bought this new measurement tool called the skulpt aim. It's the first electronic bf% tool that I've used that is pretty damn good. You wet it and then press it against your body on 4 locations (bi, tri, abs, quads) and it sends electro pulses to measure body fat and muscle quality. Pretty neat.
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What kind of pricing are we talking about? And how did it measure up compared to your calipers?
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Gymjunkie38
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Once your pretty lean you have too just eyeball it calipers work down too about 8 percent under that you can really only measure at the abdomen and single point measurements arent acurate .
Damn that's fucked up man! Goes to,show just how fucking worthless those things are
21infantry
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Your run of the mill electronic scales are highly inaccurate. But they do have some that are almost on par with bod testing. But your not going to find those at your Walmart or gym. They cost at least 10 g's.
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Gymjunkie38
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There even worse for steroid users cause they count water as lean mass you obviously see how that can throw you off when your shredded and dry it will tell you your fatter than you are and when your bloated youll think you have more muscle
Gymjunkie38
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Calipers arent the most accurate but they show enough change too consistantly track progress consistantly the elctric tool is useless though
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