How can I find out my body fat percentage? (doctors, buy, losing)

[Hypnosis]

How do doctors usually check this? a blood test or something? and how much should it cost?

[CaptainNJ]

i hear the best way is the water method. there is some kind of caliper thing that you can buy of have done in the gym.

[suzy_q2010]

One way is to use a device that does it:

Amazon.com: Omron Body Fat Analyzer: Sports & Outdoors

Or use body measurements:

Body Fat Calculator

Body Fat and Skinfold Thickness - How to Calculate Body Fat Percentage from Skinfold Thickness

The immersion method (most accurate):

Body fat testing - hydrostatic body fat testing - body fat equipment: FitnessWave (http://www.getdunked.com/home/default.asp - broken link)


Some gyms will do it for members with either a device or do the measurements for you.

There may be variation in the absolute numbers obtained with any method, but they are useful if you just want to confirm that you are losing fat by comparing serial measurements.

[Jesse69]

Check out Tanita Body Fat Scales.

[rd2007]

This is the one I bought from Buy.com:

HBF-516B | OMRON ®

have owned it for over 6 months and I bought my son one too. So far the only issue was the original set of batteries barely lasted two months. Haven't had anything after that.