My fat calipers have arrived to help me accurately measure my body fat percentage over the coming months. It’s taking a little bit of getting used to and I’m slowly getting better at it.

Getting your technique right is the key so you can be certain of accurate measurements.

The one I chose is a FatTrack Gold which comes with full instructions on how to use it and a “Myotape”.

“What the heck is a Myotape?” I hear you cry! Don’t worry, I wondered the same thing when I ordered it over the Internet. Basically this piece of technology is a fancy measuring tape for wrapping around your waist, leg etc. to measure the circumference of a body part accurately. So I’ll be making use of that too in the near future to measure inches gained or lost as I experiment with the Get Shredded program.

To measure your body fat with the calipers you need to input some basic details such as your age and sex (which the caliper then remembers) and then you take 3 readings. The places you take the readings differ depending on whether you’re male or female but for a man you essentially take a reading of the fat on the side of your pec, just by your belly button and the front of your thigh.

To take a reading you pinch your flesh gently to create a “fold” then the calipers measure the thickness of the fold, and hence how much fat there is under your skin. By using these 3 measurements, the caliper calculates your body fat percentage nice and accurately.

Easy!

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