How do you measure your body fat percentage?

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1. interesting question
2. if you go to physical therapy office they can do a water bouyancy test that tells you how much body fat you have.
3. You can buy scales from Argos that measure your body fat, water, body mass, weight etc. Ours cost us £50 but you can get cheaper ones.
4. if you divide your weight in kilos by your height in cms then times by 55 you get the percentage eg 80 / 180 *55 = 24.4%
5. I have scales that measure your body fat after they have given you your weight
6. the only way is to get skin caliper measurement this is done by a personal trainer or when u join up to a gym they will give you an assessment.
7. Skin calipers is probably the most accurate you can do without lots of advanced equipment.
8. You have to go to a gym or doctors office to get it professionally done. Otherwise they sell tiny hand held ones at many common stores like walmart, shopko, kmart, etc. these are cheap and cost about $15. They provide you with a number based on entering your own height, weight, and gender, and then it sends electrical pulses through your body and picks up the percentage of fat. I"m not sure how accurate the number is that you get back because mine always seems a little higher than what I would reasonably think. However it appears to flucuoate along with working out more or less.
9. Take your weitht in kilos and then divide it by your height in cm and divide the answer by your height in cm again i.e 70/163/163=26bmi
10. The most accurate way is with Vernier Calipers, but you need the equations and figures to get your exact percentage, go to a gym to go it.