Body Fat Testing

[Kimmo]

anyone know where to get accurate ie. water immersion body fat testing in seattle? 24 hour fitness does it once a month for $50, but couldn't find anywhere else.

[Maine-iac]

Just ask your significant other to "pinch some fat" and you will be shown for free where ya have it.

Rules:

No time at all or pinches multiple places quickly keep going to the gym

Under 5 seconds to find it 8% - 10%

Under 10 seconds 5% - 8%

If she can't find it then <5%

 

 

On a serious note-

You might try looking at UW's human phys lab to see if they have any studies going on. Quite often at UO we have various lactic threshold tests or VO2 tests going on. I think I have seen some tests including measurement of body fat. AND they typically pay YOU to take the test.

[Kimmo]

thanks maine-iac, but no luck. everyone at UW was like "hmmmmm... try this number:..." until the last one connected me to Sound Mind and Body. 24 Hour Fitness it is.

[Dan_Miller]

Ballard Health Club, has the mobile hydrostatic testing rig onsite every so often. I no longer train there, so I'm unaware of the next scheduled appearance.

 

(206) 706-4882 · 2208 NW Market St Seattle, WA 98107

[Kimmo]

thanks. i think it's probably the same guy who came to 24 hour fitness, where i had mine done a couple of weeks ago.

[RuMR]

wassup, ya fellow fat phuck?

[Kimmo]

you will postitively not guess what i tested at. but go ahead and try.

[Pilchuck71]

16% that's my guess sight unseen.

[RuMR]

you will postitively not guess what i tested at. but go ahead and try.

Reasonably fit adult male who likes yummy beer --> 13%

[Kimmo]

close pilchuck, but a little high.

 

whereas rumr evidently has a mole: 13.6%.

 

do you know what this means, rumr? i've got the potential to be pretty damn light! and if i'm climbing what i'm climbing at close to 20 pounds heavier than i could healthily be....

[RuMR]

you like BEER...mmmmmmtasty....

[Rad]

So how much did this cost and where did you do it? I've got genetics on my side but have never been much of a dieting dude. Might be curious enough to give it a try.

 

[Kimmo]

49 bucks at downtown 24 hour fitness. you'll have to call about when holmes comes back (i think he's there first week of every month).

yeah kinda interesting to find out i could safely lose 20 pounds.

[el jefe]

13.6% = 20 lbs? actually, there's some minimum amount of body fat that you can't go below (i forget the exact figure -- 3%? 5%?), so 20 lbs might be more than you can realistically lose.

 

it's hard to drop more than a pound or two a week and keep it off. really rapid weight loss is loss of water, which is dehydration rather than actually getting leaner.

 

are you planning to try stevie haston's 800kcal/day diet?

[Kimmo]

well i'm 173 now at 13.6. that's what, 23 pounds of fat. it's said(?) that you lose closer to 1.5 pounds of weight for every pound of fat you lose, cuz of interstitial water loss associated with fat storage. so dropping 9% of my body fat would drop my weight what, approximately 22 pounds or so? leaving me a little under 5%. yeah that's kinda low, but i'm interested enough to work towards it....

 

i don't know how long haston was on his low cal diet. i would imagine there would be days of that.... march or april is when i'd like to hit it, so i have some time, and i know i can hit 170 in two days, leaving me 15 pounds to go (i think 155 is a realistic goal).

[BodyFatTest]

You can see a calendar of events for hydrostatic Body Fat Testing at their website Body Fat Test home page List of event locations: Body Fat Test events list

 

[Maine-iac]

How tall are you Kimmo? 173 doesn't seem that bad. Once you get into the single digits you will notice that those unplanned bivies are actually quite cold and painful because you have no fat to cushion your ass and keep you warm.

[Kimmo]

yeah being cold comes with the territory, but being a sporto wimp, i'll be clad in two down coats and a propane heater nearby (in july).

 

i'm 6'1" btw, with a smallish to medium frame. i consistently weighed in the mid 150's through my early 30's, dropping to 146 (yikes) for a short period. yeah i was pretty lean, but compare to some others: ondra 130 and 6', sharma what 155 and 6', local kid who's 6' and around 130....but i think it mainly comes down to body fat % as to how healthily one can exist at a particular weight, with ~3% being minimum or so i read.

[RuMR]

you'll quit menstruating at that low of a body fat

[Kimmo]

dude, it's a good birth control method, better than the pill. plus we already had a kid, hah. we aren't into big litters, like those outta control east-siders.

[RuMR]

(4 2 5) -ers RULE!!!

 

we will overpopulate the world and take over!

[TBay]

the following method might be useful for the dirtbag not willing to shell out 49 bucks for a hydrostatic test-

 

body fat calculator

 

kimmo, if you have a second, plug in your recent bodyweight stats into the linked spreedsheet, and verify for us the +/- 3% accuracy claim. thanks

 

[jon]

I've been tested by all the methods and IMO the scales work fine, just track the numbers in excel use the moving average. I actually picked one up at Costco for $28 this weekend.

[Kimmo]

wayyyyy off. the above formula pegged me at 23%. seemed suspect at the get-go.

 

i've heard the 6 point caliper test is pretty accurate, and that one came within 2% of the immersion test.

[Kimmo]

my thinking is that if you take the immersion test once, it'll give you a starting point that gives you accurate weight to body fat % targets to shoot for, ones that won't change much unless you really put on muscle fast, take steroids, or lose muscle fast. when i get to 155, i'll probably take another immersion test just for fun, but i'm already pretty sure i'll be around 6%.