Video: Body Fat Caliper Demonstration

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Body fat calipers are an easy way to measure body fat percentage. Learn how to use body fat calipers with health tips from a fitness instructor in this free fitness monitor video.

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mciws1130 Jan 01, 2009
Nicely done overall! Provided very specific details as to how, when, and where to use the device.
mciws1130 Jan 01, 2009
Nicely done overall! Provided very specific details as to how, when, and where to use the device.

Video Transcript

Alright, now I'm going to show you how to use the accu measure. What's cool about this one is that you can actually do it by yourself. I would recommend trying to find the same time of day to do this each time, preferably first thing in the morning, that way you haven't eaten, you haven't had water, you can just see where your body is and then repeat in about four to six weeks. You're going to look to your hip and put your finger on your hip bone and then use the measurement right on the numbers to go to about an inch away. Once you get there, place your thumb at one mark, your pointer finger at the other and squeeze, and all of us have a little fat, that's okay. Then you're going to place the calibers there and squeeze until you hear a click. Once there, you'll see it on the mark. And it just happens to say about one tenth of a millimeter. You would then look at your chart and, since I'm a woman in the thirty-one to thirty-five range, that one tenth on the millimeters pulls me right at about 13.2 percent, which right here is nice and lean, which is great. It wouldn't have been horrible if it was higher, you want it to still stay in the ideal range and that's it. You use it to track your own body fat. Again, this is one spot, which makes it very useful and easy, but it's not your full body. So you can use this to track, see where you are, by yourself and I would do it again in about four to six weeks. That's your accu measure

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Body Fat Caliper Demonstration

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