Great place for info once in a while. Good link!

Chillen

Whats so funny about that, body fat scles can be very accurate, and i wouldnt be worrying about the calipers but more about the pt :s

name an accurate BF scale.. I dare you

Tanita. The ones i use, before you jump on you have to type in your age, gender, whether your an athlete, height etc. From the two i used, they gave almost identical scores with an accuracy to .1 coincidence i think not.

they will both get the same reading since they both use the same methods. but if these methods gives you your actual body fat percentage is another question..

they do, the cheap ones wouldnt be as good obviously..

well, until I see some data comparing the scales to DEXA scans I probably won't be convinced

A post from my journal:

I got my bodyfat tested again today. I was feeling pretty lean, abs are hardly covered with fat compared to what they were. I felt confident that I hadn't gained any fat and perhaps even lost a slight amount. I weighed in at 175, 2 pounds up from last bodyfat test which was 12 days ago.

I checked my measurements and my arms went up and my waist stayed the same.

The results came back like I expected them.. my fat level was pretty much unchanged from last time. a few of the measurments went up by a very small amount, and some went down by a very small amount (abs, chest and suprilliac, with abs being the biggest drop, .4 milimeters), the rest of them stayed the same from last week.

The results showed that I had gained 1.7 pounds of lean mass and .3 pounds of fat mass. Leaving my bodyfat percentage unchanged from last week at 11.2%.

This is still great news for me! With these small little fat gains I can almost bulk indefinitely.

As to why I didn't lose fat this week? There was a small bit of differences.

The main difference is that I was eating a lot of carbs pre workout. Sometimes getting over 100g. I was also eating a tad more carbs in my post post workout meal.

Another thing that I can think of is that I was leaner. I kind of believe in the natural bodyweight thing, and when I was in the 12% fat range my appetite was getting supressed, like my body didn't want to go any higher. I notice that the leaner I am, the hungrier I am. I think 11% or so is my natural bodyweight.

I didn't do a bit of cardio either... (just lifted five days a week and the rest of the time was just pure sitting basically) I would bet that if I would walk for an hour a day or something I would be able to lose fat and gain muscle.

That's what I will experiment with this summer. I will be doing a lot of walking because I will be playing golf about 4 days per week and another day I will be mowing lawns all day.

How many grams of carbs du you usually get on your high, moderate and low carb days?

I was just curious if a carb cycling diet is beneficial when tryin to lose weight. Ive been on the zigzag 3 and 1 diet (20%deficit 3days mantenance 1 day), I do cardio 7 days a week, and lift 4. would it be beneficial to add in carb cycling or is it not a good idea because im on a deficit

I was looking at my fitday and my high carb days are on Back and Leg days (because my workouts are the toughest on these days), so two days per week. On the high carb days I was eating 275-325g each day.

My moderate days are chest/calves, arms, and shoulder day, so three days per week. On the moderate days I was eating 225 -275g

On the low days, which are my off days, two days per week, I was eating 50-100g.

This all just kind of happened, I was just trying to eat the amount of carbs that I was going to use for weight training and recovery... I didn't pick these numbers before hand or anything, highly experimental.

I would say hell yeah it's beneficial. In my opinion, when are you on a defecit you better be eating very nutritious foods because you aren't getting a lot of food. Most carbs are just plain junk food. With the carb cycling you can still eat a lot of the good nutritious carbs.

carb cycling is very effective for fat loss my cyle program consists of high carb low carb no carb then repeat the cycle on my high carb days i do all my heavy compound lifts