Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

Ep. #1050: How to Use Calipers to Measure Body Fatness


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There are various ways to loosely track your body composition changes over time, like taking progress pictures or measuring your waist. 

But if you want to be a little more rigorous or just have more data on how your body fat levels ae changing, you can use skinfold calipers.

While no body fat measurement method is foolproof, calipers can give you a fairly accurate reading if you know what you’re doing. So in this podcast, you’re going to learn how to properly use skinfold calipers to measure your body fat percentage. 

Listen and let me know what you think!


Timestamps:

(0:00) - Please leave a review of the show wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure to subscribe!

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(4:31) - What are skin fold calipers?

(5:16) - Are skinfold calipers accurate?

(15:28) - How do I use calipers?

(21:07) - What are the different types of measurements you can take?

(25:22) - What are the different methods of reading and estimating body fat percentage?

(35:59) - Which calipers should I buy?


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