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Bodyfat Calipers

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  • #2
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Toon--soldier wrote: »
    Would anyone know if this is a decent calipers or where I would get one?cheers

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BODY-FAT-TESTER-CALIPERS-MANUAL-BODY-FAT-CHARTS-/110628140558?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Dieting_Slimming_ET&hash=item19c1f3760e

    Looks like a rip off of the accumeasure ones.

    THe calipers don't really matter, once your'e consistent with how you measure


  • #3
    Toon--soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Toon--soldier


    Hanley wrote: »
    Looks like a rip off of the accumeasure ones.

    THe calipers don't really matter, once your'e consistent with how you measure

    When you say consistent with how you measure do you mean the amount of times a week you measure or in the areas you measure?


  • #4
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,900 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    I think he means how you measure. The same way everytime


    For example, say the above calipers is crap, and doesn't give an accurate reading and due to a flaw it give out doulbe the measurement (10% bf shows up as 20% etc). But, that doesn't really matter, as if the numbers are down month after month you are losing BF, and that all that matters. Obviously i'm using a massive, unrealisitc flaw to illustrate a point.


  • #5
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    The accumeasure calipers are the best onesI have come across at a cheap price that are 'supposed' to be relatively accurate.

    And yes, it's the rate of change you are measuring that is critical, the huge innacuracy with calipers is the user. If you have different people measuring the same person they will all do it slightly differently and you would get differing results.

    The same user doing the same thing time after time is where you get accurate results to measure rate of change.


  • #6
    Eegorbishcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭Eegorbishcan


    Just re-hashing an old thread here, just wondering if anyone ever found anywhere that stocks bodyfat calipers' in Dublin?

    - just looking for a basic reliable one I can pick up, got a digital one online before and it was useless IMO


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  • #7
    Diaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 56 ✭✭Diaz


    Eegorbishcan wrote: »
    Just re-hashing an old thread here, just wondering if anyone ever found anywhere that stocks bodyfat calipers' in Dublin?

    - just looking for a basic reliable one I can pick up, got a digital one online before and it was useless IMO

    This place seems to be selling the calipers recommended above

    http://www.fitnessireland.ie/accu-measure-fitness-3000-body-fat-calipers.html

    Or amazon


  • #8
    Eegorbishcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭Eegorbishcan


    Spot on Diaz, thanks for your help


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