How to Calculate Body Fat Percentage

Before starting program to lose weight,as part of a diet or
gain muscle as part of a bodybuilding regime,you must knowing
your body fat percentage then can help you to monitor your
progress. The proportion of your weight that is muscle and the
proportion that is fat can be both interesting and rewarding
(possibly occasionally highly depressing).

For these reasons keeping track of your body fat is an important
and fun thing to be able to do. Following is a very simple and
easy to follow methods that will enable anyone to measure just
how much fat they have compared to muscle.

To do this method requires helping of a friend or family member
(or helpful nearby tramp) with a ruler in millimeters scale
measurement.


Step 1- Hang your right arm down by your side, and get your friend
             or family assistant to find the halfway point between the
             elbow and shoulder on the posterior side of your arm (the
             back, where the triceps are).

Step 2- With his or her forefinger and thumb, get them to pinch a
             fold of skin and fat (not too hard mind) and pull it up away
             from the muscle and the bone as far as they can comfortably.

Step 3- Get them to measure the thickness of that piece of skin with
             the aforementioned ruler, make sure not to press the ruler
             against the skin which can mess up the results. To collect
             best results ,you have to do this several times and take an
             average reading (the sum of the readings divided by the number
             of readings taken).

Step 4- Get them to use the following chart to calculate body fat percentage.

Body Fat Chart

(Thickness of folded skin in MM and body fat % for men and women)

 6MM  =  5 to  9 percent body fat for men

 6MM  =  8 to 13 percent body fat for women

13MM  =  9 to 13 percent body fat for men

13MM  = 13 to 18 percent body fat for women

19MM  = 13 to 18 percent body fat for men

19MM  = 18 to 23 percent body fat for women

25MM  = 18 to 22 percent body fat for men

25MM  = 23 to 28 percent body fat for women

38MM  = 22 to 27 percent body fat for men

38MM  = 28 to 33 percent body fat for women

A simple and easy method you can use to measure your own body fat. Although
it’s not massively accurate,it should nevertheless give you a rough guide
to the kind of shape you’re.