Measuring Body Composition and Progress

there's machines that'll do it but and there's calculations that you can kind of estimate yeah but it's a lot like body fat measurements you know unless you have the right equipment you're just kind of guessing yeah you know when you like people using calipers i hate using calipers i tell people not to use them because they're horribly inaccurate you can have a they can be off 10 percent we measure grip strength don't we grip yeah strength of the body fat yeah right but i mean if all things are equal

based on calipers. I mean, let's say you go to a coach, same time of month, and he's proficient at it. I mean, even if it's out, you're still getting a record of measurement, so you should be able to. And obviously, and all coaches that I know always say, nothing replaces the visual inspection, obviously. But in terms of taking calipers from the same person, from the same time, same month of experience, you should be able to get a good indication of whether you're improving or not. Yes, but that's the conversation of accuracy versus precision. right you know is it accurate no but is it precise yeah as long as you're if you're what i used to tell people when i when i taught courses on how to take body fat measurements i said look if you're really shitty at this just be consistently shitty and you're fine right because you're what you're looking for is you add up all of the all of the millimeters and you say okay i'm looking for like a five to ten drop in millimeters every single like every week and that you know that you're going well we'll typically use circumference measurements because i can teach a monkey how to do that it's not a problem and you know they make a device like myotape that's really good it's it keeps the same pressure every single time you measure something so i'm looking at you know are they maintaining arm mass calf mass and leg mass because if they're if they're becoming catabolic those are the first places you're going to lose muscle is your extremities right that's excellent anyone can do that anybody i can with me because i we train a little over 100 people online i can get them to pick up a 19 plastic piece of equipment and i can be sure that they're doing it correctly because i can send a photo that shows how to do it and then all they have to do is wrap the device around you hit the button and it goes to the same exact pressure every time so yeah that is really cool because that's the hardest the hardest bit is to know is when when you need to change when you've hit a bit of a plateau when you've adapted to the adaptation right mainly so we've got to keep because there's not one diet that's going to work for everyone all the time and there's not one style of training that's going to work for everyone all the time so each individual needs to be a change, huh?