- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course Bob
- Brad, we already did a video on
how to measure body fat on a male.
- Right.
- Which was you, surprisingly.
And now we're do a video on how to
measure body fat on a female using skin fold measurements.
There's other ways to do it,
you can use body immersion in the water,
which is one of the more underwater immersion
- Accurate.
- Accurate, right.
- Right, expensive.
- But it's expensive, then they have the BOD POD,
but the other one they have is,
those electronic body fat testers, those are unreliable.
- Right
- They're easy to use, but they're unreliable.
This is the most reliable way that's inexpensive.
This is the Sequoia, I'm gonna read this off,
Sequoia Fitness 4000 Body Fat Caliper.
I got it on Amazon for $11.95.
I think it's excellent, it got 4.3 out of 5 reviews.
And there was like hundreds of reviews.
- Sure.
- And the review, the few negatives I saw
were just somebody had trouble using it,
I don't know why, but what I like about it best
is that it's spring loaded Brad,
which means it's gonna take away my bias.
It's gonna give the same amount of squeeze every time.
- Sure.
- So it's gonna be reliable.
- Right
- Now on a male and a female,
what we do is three measurements,
because different people tend to
deposit their body fat in different areas.
And so by doing the three measurements,
we get a more accurate of your overall body fat.
- Right, and the three measurements are different locations,
- Yeah
- from the male to the female.
- Right, exactly.
And the reason you're gonna do this in the first place
even is you want to see, get a baseline where you're at now,
and then as you work out, you want to see
are you losing the weight that you're losing is
you're losing muscle or are you losing body fat?
- Sure.
- Same thing if you gain weight, are you gaining a muscle?
Which is good and you might be losing body fat,
even though you've gained weight.
- Right, people that go in the weight room on their diet,
they gain weight, they're getting depressed,
and if they did this they might be losing body fat
and gaining muscle
- And not even realizing.
- Right.
- So that's a good thing.
So today we have Lonnie, our camerawoman is gonna
come out here and, come on out here, Lonnie.
So yeah, you can flip that.
Alright, the way we do it is,
we always have the person stand,
and we do three measurements.
With the woman, they're like I said,
they're different than the man.
The first one is the, basically the super iliac measurement.
And by the way again, what I recommend with this,
as I did on the male,
is to actually mark the areas with a pen or a marker,
that way, 'cause what you should do,
is you really should do, you do all three measurements,
and then you probably wanna repeat all three measurements,
and maybe even do it a third time,
and take the average of the three.
- [Brad] If you really want to get
- If you really want to be accurate here.
Alright, the first one, let's you know what, Lonnie,
I'm gonna show the second one first.
The reason I'm gonna do that is
let's come up by the camera here.
- [Brad] And it doesn't matter what order.
- [Bob] Yeah, it doesn't matter.
I wanna make sure we can see it.
Can we see that?
Yeah, what you're gonna do is here's your little,
let's turn this way.
Here's the "x" where we're gonna market it
halfway between the shoulder and the elbow.
What you wanna do is pinch,
about two or three inches of skin,
and bring it together like that.
And this is a vertical one, and right below the pinch,
about a quarter inch,
you're gonna go ahead and put the calipers,
and let them squeeze on the skin.
- [Brad] Can you pull that down?
- [Bob] Oh sure, like this?
- [Brad] Yeah, that's better.
- [Bob] Cause I'm again, two to three inches, squeeze,
and I'm forming a mountain here,
and halfway between the top of the mountain,
and the base of the mountain,
that's where I'm putting the calipers.
So right below the pinch,
I squeeze and like that, and you can see,
this is giving me a number of 14.
Did you see that Brad?
- [Brad] Turned out good.
- [Bob] Okay, good.
Alright, let's come back over here now.
Alright, I think we're still doing okay.
Did you wanna write that down, Brad, 14?
- [Brad] I'll get it.
- You'll get it, he's got a great memory.
Alright, this one is right above the hip bone.
It's the super iliac crest here.
I mean the iliac.
So right above this bone here,
you'll feel a bone right here.
Right above, we're just gonna put this down a little bit.
We got an "x" there.
Now I'm squeezing here, again two to three inches,
Squeeze it together.
And I'm letting the calipers again, grab on.
And that is 20, oh, I mean 18.
What was the first one Brad?
- [Brad] 14.
- [Bob] 14?
- [Brad] I'll get it Bob don't worry.
- [Bob] I Just don't think he's gonna remember.
He doesn't have that good of memory.
- [Brad] Bob.
- Alright, we're going down now.
- [Brad] I will amaze you today.
- [Lonnie] 14 and 18.
- [Bob] 14 and 18, yep.
Now halfway between the hip and the knee, in the mid thigh.
Again, I'm gonna squeeze,
right on there.
That one gives Lonnie a little thrill there, 19.
Okay, last one is 19.
Alright, I'm gonna write that down.
You didn't use a permanent marker on there, did you?
- [Brad] Don't worry about it, Bob.
19?
- [Bob] Yeah, 19.
- [Brad] Oh, now we gotta do math, Bob.
Okay, you know your guzintas?
4 goes into 8, 8 goes into 9.
- [Bob] 51
Lonnie you wanna take over the camera now,
so we make sure we're looking at something.
(Lonnie laughs)
Alright, 51.
So what I'll do at this point, are you on me, Lonnie?
Alright, what I'll do at this point is
I'm gonna give the reveal, Lonnie's body fat
and let's see 51.
And Lonnie did reveal her age to us, she's 48.
So her body fat is only 23%.
For a woman, that's really good.
- Wow.
- Wanna write that down?
- 23%.
- Wow.
- [Brad] Excellent.
- I'd have to look that up Lonnie,
but I'm guessing that's really
on the low percentage, for female.
So excellent job,
its all that fruit you eat and all that stuff.
- [Lonnie] I think I lost some weight.
- You lost some weight too?
- Oh, good for you.
- All that working out.
So what I'll do at this point
is I'll put up either this chart
or I'll put up a website that indicates where you can go to
to plug those three numbers in,
and they'll give you your body fat percentage,
and then you can just track it,
from now on and see how you're doing.
And hopefully you're gonna get that number to go down.
- Sure you better believe it
- Unless it's really low already.
So, alright, thanks a lot for watching.
- Have a good time and be careful.