Find out what percentage of Your body mass is fat tissue Bashny.Net

The level of subcutaneous fat (bodyfat) shows how many percent of the total body mass is fatty tissue. Accordingly, the higher the number, the thicker the person is: index of 20% with a weight of 75 kg says that the body 15 pounds of fat. A lot or a little, you can see from the tables below. But how to measure the level of subcutaneous fat?



 

To do this allow calculators on the Internet, but the results can be very inaccurate. More revealing is the so-called direct method: measurement device, which passes a weak current through the body, and since fat has more resistance varies the speed of travel of the signal.

But the most accurate, and the public — with an instrument called a caliper or a regular caliper.

In this measuring in most cases the thickness of the fat folds will be directly proportional to the amount of fat in the body.





How to take measurements?

You need to become right, to find the abdomen point 10 cm above the navel, and to take on this place the skin and fat.

This pockets need to measure the caliper. Then check the tables data and they are verified experimentally. Comparing the measurement in millimeters and your age, you will see which zone is your percentage of fat content in the body in high, normal or low.published

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