Can you measure body fat without the special tool?

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1. Yes, If You can pinch more than an inch.....well is some excess body fat.
2. All you need is your fingers, pinch your side if you have a lot of skin in your fingers then fatty go on a diet. Good Luck with everything!
3. It's not exact, but yes. Take the biggest pinch of your stomach.... it can help you monitor your progress.
4. You can buy body fat scales that you stop on, they tell you your weight as well as body fat...cost around $100 here in Australia
5. There are weight scales now that will tell you body fat percent. I wouldn't swear on how accurate they are, but they are out there.
6. not accurately.. hand calipers are cheap like $15. monitoring body fat is the only way to know for sure where loses on the scale are coming from. the mirror is good, but taking body fat measurements is better.
7. yes, but not very accurately. i'm assuming the tool you're speaking of are a pair of calipers. the absoulte best way to measure body fat is by weighing yourself in water but this is not very practical. you can use a BMI calculator online and that should give you a decently good indicator, if you're body composition is average. but if you are an athlete ( more lean muscle mass ) or if you are obese, the calculator is not quite as accurate. there are also scales that run a slight electric current through your body to measure the resistance and therefore you're fat content but those from my experience are not too accurate
8. BMI can be measured closely your lbs _________ height by inches x inches figure this first x 703 0-19 under 19-29.9 avg 30-40 over 40-50 obease 50+very obease