BBLex, The Bodybuilders Dictionary has no less than 12 online body-fat calculators. The site recommends the 3-folds formula by Jackson-Pollock (not the abstract expressionist painter) as the most accurate. You can see them all at:
Online calculators for Bodybuilders...
Bodyfat calculation by circumferences
- Method of the US Navy
for male and female athletes- Fast and easy method to test your bodyfat. Very exact for athletes, and satisfying for average people.
Bodyfat calculation by skinfolds
- 2-folds formula by Sloan
for male athletes- Bodyfat calculation bases on two folds at scapula and thigh.
This formula is often used within the tables coming with calipers.- 3-folds formula by Jackson-Pollock
for male athletes- Uses 3 folds at chest, waist, and thigh; in addition the age is included in calculation.
Recommended as most exact formula.- 3-folds formula by Jackson-Pollock
for female athletes- Uses triceps folds, waist folds, hip folds, and age.
- 3-folds formula by Pollock
for male athletes- Uses folds at scapula, triceps, and chest, and the athletes age.
- 3-folds formula by Pollock
for female athletes- Uses triceps folds, waist folds, hip folds, and age.
- Lohmann, 3-folds formula
for male athletes- Measured folds are at scapula, triceps, and waist.
- Durnin/Womersley, 4-folds formula
for male athletes- The folds are on scapula, biceps, triceps, hip, and age.
This formula is recommended for lean men between 30 and 40 years of age only; for all other groups the results are to imprecise.- Method of the National Helth Center of America (NHCA)
for male athletes- The folds are on scapula, chest, axilla, and waist. No age needed.
- 4-folds formula by Forsyth-Sinning
for male athletes- Uses folds at waist, scapula, axilla, and triceps.
- 7-folds formula by Jackson-Pollock
for male and female athletes- Uses folds all over the body, and the age. But the 3-folds-formula by Jackson/Pollock is a little more exact.
- 9-folds formula by Parillo
for male athletes- This formula was developed by the bodybuilder J. Parillo. Unlike the other ones it bases on experience, not on science. Uses nine folds from all over the body and the athletes weight.
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