kesako wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:Body Fat Scales are notoriously incorrect. The AVERAGE error is +/- 5-6% and this becomes greater if you're outside a normal range....so if you're extremely lean or extremely fat the Body Fat Scale is no more useful than a dart board.
Unless you've been dunked (underwater weighing), used a bod pod, DEXA, or 7-site skin fold by an expert (someone who's done at least 500 readings) then your reading could be and is likely way off.
Alan
Thanks Alan. I'm interested in any of these tests if I could find a not too expensive way to get it done. Any link to a $100ish accurate testing site? (I live in NYC)
Call your local collegiate ex phys labs....most will offer underwater weighing or 7-site pretty cheaply.
Alan