Body Fat Calipers

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind.

Working out and exercises is difficult but sometimes made easier with a variety of fitness monitors used to track your progress. In this free video series, our fitness instructor will teach you about a variety of fitness monitors used to measure body fat, weight, heart rate and even the distance you walk every day. You will learn where to find and how to used body fat calipers, fat analyzers, pedometers and heart rate monitors. If you want to make sure you're getting all the workout you think you are, let our expert show you everything you need to know about fitness monitors.

Video Transcript

"One body fat measure is the Accu Measure. This is pretty much a basic way to find what your body fat it. It looks like this and it comes with an actual body fat measure or some people refer to it as a caliber because you are actually going to pinch part of your skin to see how much body fat is there. What's cool is that you only measure a spot but on the other side it may not be as accurate is some of the other tools that I am going to show you because it's only one spot to look at. And you will understand when I do the demonstration. Another part that comes with it is an actual chart that shows you where you should fall for your age group, being a male or a female. And they have the other side for the woman. Pretty basic instruction guide which I always look at because that in of itself can be intimidating. So that's the Accu Measure. It costs about fifteen or fourteen dollars in any of your health food stores so moderate in price. Easy to use and basic for doing by yourself or with someone to help you out."