I’ve been cross training (jogging, upper body weight lifting and core strength work) at Lifetime Fitness. It has been a wonderful experience but today I decided I needed to bite the bullet and see just how much extra weight…FAT I’m carrying around. Although I knew I wasn’t going to like what I was told, data truly is my friend and in order for me to track and see positive or negative movement with my body composition, I needed to hear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I debated briefly with myself as to\u00a0whether or not\u00a0I would\u00a0put my personal data out here for all the world to see, but what the heck, it is what it is and if I put it out there, I think I’ll be more motivated to improve on it so I can report back with better numbers!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Using the 3 site skin fold measurement technique (done with calipers) a body fat percentage of 34.6% and a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 27.2 were estimated. Both of these say that I need to get leaner. The desirable range for me would be between 25% and 31%. I would agree — and knew this before the caliper ever touched my skin. The good news is that gives me 105 lbs of lean mass.\u00a0 That represents a fair amount of muscle which I plan to keep and build upon.<\/p>\n
After the computer did its thing, the fellow who did the measurements looked at me, then looked at the computer read-out, then back to me and very kindly offered, “Hmm, maybe this estimate is a little high for you.”\u00a0 It would be great if he is right, but, again, it really doesn’t matter that much. This number represents a baseline for me. Now I need to see if I can improve on it over the next few months. I plan to get measured monthly, so I should have 4 or 5 data points before I leave on the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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