In previous articles on the topic of body composition, I’m examined what body composition is, shown some body composition calculations, looked at what is a good body fat percentage and examined different methods of measuring body composition.
Today I want to take a step back and get a bit more technical to look at some of the problems with measuring body composition accurately. This will lead me to finally round out this series by giving some specific recommendations on how to use the various methods to get the best measure of what’s going on.
While each of the methods that I discussed in the previous two articles have their own individual issues (some of which I discussed in those articles), the underlying issue with most methods of body composition measurement is that they have any number of inherent assumptions that, as often as not, are turning out to be false.… Keep Reading