As promised on monday, I was able to get my body fat tested today. I had the head trainer do it this time, and will only have her do it from now on so as not to introduce any kind of inconsistancy to the measurements.
She said that I'm at 11.8% which is a little higher than I had been told before. I still really want to be under 8% and I asked her about that. She said that for the goals that I have that I will need to get it down under 8% but that I shouldn't let it fall below 6%.
If you don't know, they measure this in an interesting way. They take 3 measurements with a small set of callipers of different parts of your body. They're different for men and women. In my case, she measured my chest stomach and thigh.
Here is what I measured:
Chest: 7 mm
Stomach: 22 mm
Thigh: 10 mm
Then she takes that score (39) and looks it up on a chart based on my age. Clearly I still have a lot of work to do around the middle, and looking at me would seem to confirm this. That seems to be the only real "soft" spot that I still have left.
At this point, I feel like I need to eat a lot more protein, because I want to make sure that my body is getting enough fuel to build more muscle with. I'm not exactly sure what the best plan is, so maybe that should be the next thing I research.
Until next week....
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