Body Fat (Calipers): 21.481%

So, normally I used the rusty caliper site (on sidebar) to determine my body fat via calipers. His site recommends that one take five measurements, throw out the low and the high, and then enter the three middle measurements as your data.

So, as an experiment, I did the following:

ONE MEASUREMENT

I took one measurement, and then used that one measurement, at each of the three sites, to determine my body fat via calipers.

RESULT: 21.391%

THE FIRST THREE MEASUREMENTS

The first three measurements, combine to the following:

RESULT: 21.481%

THROWING OUT LOW AND HIGH AND AVERAGING MIDDLE THREE:

RESULT: 21.481%

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Ironic that the last two methods provide the same result -- and even the first method, provides a result that is "off" by 0.09%. It may be easier to simply take one measurement every few days -- and then take 5 measurements once a week or once a month. I suspect the accuracy won't vary much. . .

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