Body fat update (via calipers)

Interesting.

Body fat today (via calipers) was 24.555%. Down by 2% (theoretically) from a measurement 2 days ago. Perhaps that measurement was a bit high and today's was a bit low.

The methodology. The recommendation from Rusty's page (see right for link) is that a proper measurement involves measuring each area of the body (pecs / stomach / thigh) 5 times, throwing out the low and high and inserting the middle three into his web calculator. That seems emininently reasonable, and it is precisely what I've been doing. Of course, my numbers could be off -- but not by much, given five measurements. And given my demonstrated ability to produce accurate numbers (when I did body fat measurements 7 days in a row, they varied by ~1-1.5%, not much -- and typically day-to-day it varied by 0.5%).

But hey, lower is better, I suppose I'm well on my way to my stated goal.

Here were the goals, btw:

5/22/2005
25.94%
25.48%
25.01%

[24.555% means I've already met my body fat goal for NEXT week!]

5/29/2005
25.71%
25.01%
24.32%

[24.555% means, I've met my easy / med goal for next week, but I'll need to do more to meet my "high" goal]

6/5/2005
25.48%
24.55%
23.62%

[24.555% means I've already made the low goal; the medium goal is dead even; while the high goal will take some work].