Comments on: What Is My Body Fat Percentage?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:15:33 +0000

Mirror + measuring tape around the fattest part of the stomach works well. Sometimes the good ole dismorphia flairs up and so I think it’s valuable to have an objective way of measuring progress aswell

By: k2000k

k2000k — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:42:06 +0000

Unfortunately a person can have popping abs at 10% BFP while another person needs to get down the the 8% range. It’s all dependent on where you store your body fat, and not all of it is stored subcutaneously, ie between the muscles and skin. I prefer to use body fat calipers and the 7 point method when I need to have a BFP number, but ultimately your exact BFP doesn’t matter as long as you like how you look in the mirror.

By: sky

sky — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:15:29 +0000

yall are all flippen hot!!!!!!!!!!! wow i love yalls bodys

By: JC

JC — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:28:37 +0000

@Kx Oh no! I agree. I used to get giddy about what the pinch test read or what the dunk test told me. It was all wrong. I like mirror method much better because it helps me keep my sanity due to not worrying about numbers. If I don’t like what I see, I make changes. If I do, then I don’t.

By: Kx

Kx — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:55:03 +0000

Exactly. To clarify, I wasn’t laughing at your recommend method of testing body fat (mirror) rather at myself since I got excited of the number after having my bf% measured, though as you point out it doesn’t really tell one anything of the shape of my abs…which just goes to tell you how silly people (me) are when it comes into being in shape. We want to rely on all sorts of nonsense and not face the facts like full body mirror.

Luckily I nowadays also get excited when using the mirror method.