How Accurate is This Site???

[musclemom]

I found this "body fat estimator online ... they claim to be accurate within 2% (and frankly, at my current stage of the game, I'm cool with a 2% margin of wiggle room). I'd be very interested in seeing if it really IS accurate.

I know there are quite a few folks on this board who know what their body fat truly is. I'd be interested in seeing how this stands up. It requires nothing more than a cloth measuring tape (so in other words, would somebody who really knows what their body fat is please take this link and try it out, pretty please it took a total of like, two minutes, max).

Bear in mind, for my purposes I'm just trying to get a ballpark of where I stand BF wise, I don't have a trainer or belong to a gym, and my electrical impedence scale is a joke.

http://healthcentral.com/cooltools/nutrition/homebodyfattest.aspx

 

[*MissFit*]

it was some what accurate for me but could be a coincidence..it said i was 13% and i come in at a little above 10% at the gym

 

[velvett]

Oddly enough it was fairly close - also about 2% off.

 

[Gymgurl]

Just off by 3% for me

 

[nikkita]

well not accurate for me, see with the fat calipers I'm around 14%... but with the web test calculator I'm around 25%!!!

 

[velvett]

well not accurate for me, see with the fat calipers I'm around 14%... but with the web test calculator I'm around 25%!!!

Are you short?

I'm just curious because I think CC, Gymgurl and I are all about similiar height and I wonder if the program has a glitch that way.

 

[nikkita]

Are you short?

I'm just curious because I think CC, Gymgurl and I are all about similiar height and I wonder if the program has a glitch that way.

I'm 1.67m which must be around 5'5" or 5'6"

 

[velvett]

I'm 1.67m which must be around 5'5" or 5'6"

Nope, not short.

Well, that blows that theory.

That's wild.

I guess nothing beat an old fashioned dunk in the water.