What Is A Body Fat Calculator?
Your body fat percentage is an average of the total percentage of fat your body carries. For instance, if your total body weight is 200 pounds, and you have 20 pounds of fat, your fat percentage would be about 10 percent. There are plenty of methods you can use to measure your body fat. Some of them would include the use of skin fold calipers, and home body fat scales. Skin fold calipers are devices that look like giant tweezers and are used to hold on to your skin at different specific points on your body. They are designed to measure the thickness of your skin folds at these strategic points. After you write down the measurements you can use a standard chart that is usually provided when you buy the skin fold calipers to find out what percentage of fat you have in your body. *Note: Body fat in the rest of this article will be referred to as BF. Home BF scales are able to measure your BF percentage quickly. These scales operate by passing a low level current through the body and the i
