Physical Fitness Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for physical fitness professionals, athletes, trainers, and those providing health-related needs. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
One of the trainers in my local gym did my measurements with a fat caliper. He unfortunately has not had time to calculate the fat percentage.
I have the numbers and figured might as well do it myself but I not sure what formula to use. I can't match up all the body parts since he uses some different names.
He used the caliper in 6 areas:
What formula can I use that I can plugin my numbers to calculate my body fat percentage?
You can put those numbers into a site like: http://www.linear-software.com/online.html
And you should get a good BF% number back.
Not sure what Illioc is though?
There are numerous free app's around that will estimate and track body fat from a set of Skinfold measurements (an give you the formula), but if you want do do it the hard way there are hundreds of academic papers in existence that propose and/or test a multiplicity of different regression equations, for different populations eg. Validation of anthropometric equations for the estimation of body density in professional soccer players
Based on your readings above I'd suggest:
Durnin and Rahman, 1967 (age: 18-34 R=0.83 ESE=0.0069):
fatPct = 495 / (1.161 – 0.0632 * Math.Log10(bicepSF + tricepSF + subscapularSF + supraIliacSF)) - 450
But there are numerous other formulas eg.
