Catch-up post
Wow, life has been busy this week. Tuesday I had my fat pinch (aka skinfold) test and then worked chest and abs in the gym, followed by 60 minutes of biking and a 3 mile run at 21:43.
Wednesday. Nothing, studied for exams.
Thursday. Lifted back, both mid and lower with a focus on lateral muscles. Ran 2.75 miles, didn't record the time because I hit a button on my watch.
The skin fold test went fine and the results match the scale. 23.7% body fat, or 44 lbs of the stuff. The nice thing about the test is that it breaks it down by areas. I think the number is a bit high because the doctor didn't do the thigh right in my opinion, but overall fairly accurate. So the test is done on four areas: thigh middway between the knee and hip (anterior), triceps midway between the elbow and shoulder (posterior), tip of the iliac crest (hip bone, anterior), and abdomen (use your imagination, I had 35% of it to grab on this one). There is a fancy formula, that I could look up, that takes into account these 4 skin folds, your weight, and age and spits out your composition. Me=44lbs fat, 142 lbs lean muscle. I will go back for another measurement in 4 wweeks, or right after I get back from Christmas, so you have to help me eat good over the break.
Wednesday. Nothing, studied for exams.
Thursday. Lifted back, both mid and lower with a focus on lateral muscles. Ran 2.75 miles, didn't record the time because I hit a button on my watch.
The skin fold test went fine and the results match the scale. 23.7% body fat, or 44 lbs of the stuff. The nice thing about the test is that it breaks it down by areas. I think the number is a bit high because the doctor didn't do the thigh right in my opinion, but overall fairly accurate. So the test is done on four areas: thigh middway between the knee and hip (anterior), triceps midway between the elbow and shoulder (posterior), tip of the iliac crest (hip bone, anterior), and abdomen (use your imagination, I had 35% of it to grab on this one). There is a fancy formula, that I could look up, that takes into account these 4 skin folds, your weight, and age and spits out your composition. Me=44lbs fat, 142 lbs lean muscle. I will go back for another measurement in 4 wweeks, or right after I get back from Christmas, so you have to help me eat good over the break.
posted by John J Cherry at 11:19 AM
4 Comments:
Sounds like you are doing the right things to drop it at least. I admire your dedication. You know, maybe I should turn admiration into action. Naaaaahhhh. J/K Anyway, thanks for sending the invitation again. I got on really easily.
Yeah, how does it work actually? Did you have to sign up and create a password? What is the url you use to get to it? I've been meaning to ask Jason about that actually.
I bookmarked http://www.blogger.com/home when I first set up my account and I always come back that way. It's a couple of extra clicks, but it works for me.
Welcome Mike!
I think I've mentioned this before, but only 100% accurate body fat test is an autopsy. The next best thing is a full body scan (MRI), but that's very expensive. The other widely used methods are all regression formulas based on data from autopsy and MRI. Water tank and skin fold are highly accurate, but depend largely on the skill of the administrator. In the end I think I like my scale. Quite interesting you got the same number.
Like we've discussed in the past the scale can easily swing by a couple of percent throughout a day so it's not perfect, but its better then judging progess on weight alone.
Well don't focus too much on the body fat. It's only one data point in a profile of health.
As for helping you be good over the holidays. I'm not going hog wild, but I'll going to be going by some slightly relaxed vacation rules.
Well, I went to blogger.com and tried searching for your blog but it told me I couldn't search for it since I wasn't a member of blogger.com. So I signed up and made myself a profile and such. It kind of forced me into making a blog for myself so I poked around with it and tried setting it up as if I were really going to use it (which I am probably not going to right now anyway). Once I got set up on that though I had a username and password, so when I got the link from you to your blog I just told the site that I was already a member, logged in, and it added "Four Runners" to my Dashboard.
Man, reading your guys' postings about running and lifting are kind of working at me. Yesterday I felt a strange desire to go lift and then run. I've never had that kind of desire before. Very strange. I just need to make sure that I get out and run enough that I can go running with you guys over the Christmas break. I can't wait to see you and your families.
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