re: What’s your body fat %?

5'11 190 and 21-22%. Before dating my gf, I was 180-185 and 18%. It's all in my belly now

Mine?

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Mine is 18%, but I’m also 6’0 235.

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I'm 6'1" and 235, 57 years old and feel like I'm higher than 18% body fat but based on manual calculations that use weight and waist size I am 18.73%.

BTW we are both obese based on standard BMI

I’m 6’1 205, and workout everyday. Last time I checked about a month ago at the gym it was 10%. I’m 17 so I haven’t hit the beer gut stage in my life yet. Hopefully I continue to remain healthy, but once I get out of my 20’s it may go downhill.

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You have subcutaneous and visceral fat. You cannot have an exact number really bc the only way to measure your visceral fat is to kill you and weigh it.

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Exact is a relative term, even doing what you say would have some built in inaccuracies in separating fat from other tissue, especially various blood and fluids within and between tissue.

There are three methods of determining body fat that are within 1% accuracy, which is probably pretty close to, if not as close as, what you'll get with an autopsy.

Hydrostatic weight

Hydrodensitometry is a weighing method where you sit undressed in a chair that’s submerged in water. Your body density or weight under water is recorded as your body places a buoyant counterforce on the water and displaces it. The weight recorded can then be used to calculate your body fat percentage.

Underwater weighing for body fat percentage is highly accurate and considered the gold standard for measuring body fat percentage. The percentage that it estimates should be within 1 percent of body fat for both adults and children. It’s much more accurate than at-home methods, like skinfold and bioelectrical impedance.

Air displacement plethysmography

Another technique is air displacement plethysmography. After undressing, you enter a computerized, egg-shaped chamber (called a BOD POD) that totally encloses your body. Once your body density is determined through your weight and volume, the machine uses this data to calculate your body fat percentage.

Research has shown the BOD POD to be extremely accurate. It matches the accuracy of underwater measurement at within 1 percent of body fat for both adults and children.

MRI or CT scans

Perhaps the most accurate method for determining body fat percentage is with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized tomography (CT) scans. These machines take cross-sectional images of the body and can even measure intra-abdominal fat.

These tests are not often used for the sole purpose of measuring body fat. They are also very expensive.


Of course the op was probably not looking for that degree of accuracy.

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mdomingue

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Do you even caliper, brah?

I don’t have any. Well to no measurable extent. Cutz is where it’s at baw.

Thanks, makes sense brother.