Breaking news. My buddy i am staying with, lives right next to the Washington Institute
of Medicine. They have Dexa Scan.

It looks very comprehensive.

http://washington-institute.com/wp-c...Lisas-DXA2.pdf

The appointment is scheduled for tomorrow. I know some are going to think I am completely psycho, but I just need to know. I came in at a blistering 169 pounds today. We were going to this burrito place in Vegas ordering double carne asada burritos and we were logging them at 900 calories. I asked the dude how much meat was in there on the last day? He said about 30 ounces?!!! WTF?? We were eating them like it was tacobell.

I just talked to the lady at WIM and they used to have bodpods also. She said the bodpod express are not very accurate. The lasvegas bodpod is an express and so is fakebusto's. Yugo's bodpod might be the real one. She said the DEXA technology is mindblowing and she will be able to tell me wether my right arm has more LBM than my left arm!!!

The H&F bodyfat conundrum gets solved tomorrow!!!! My 6'3" 300 pound buddy is going also. I am positive I am going to scan nowhere near 9%. And Soulman will be able to laugh at my face when my stomach area comes in at 25% and I am indeed a cottagecheese belly factory.

But it's okay. At least I will be able to know whether I should Cut. Forget the mirror, it's all distorted for me. I just see robriches on good days and I see Urkel on bad days.

The saga continues . . . what time tomorrow is the appointment, so I know when to start f5ing this thread?

It's 4pm pacific. It takes an hour. This shiet is legit this time. Bodpod express is 10min. This is an actual Sports Medicine Institute. Lady was very excited to have us since we have just done bodpod recently.

This is good that both you and the big guy are going. I can infer my results from both of yours.

I got my legs at a solid 9% and my torso at a cut cut cut 19%.

you're completely psycho.




http://www.shape.com/************/wei...ody-fat?page=5

MN bodpod is allegedly completely legit and even has the tube you breath in to measure the air in your body.

Definitely wasn't an "express" or anything. Still though, really all this will tell us is that you and fakebusto are v lean and I am pretty fat. How many times is this really necessary?

How much is this going to run you?

First, DXA is a direct measurement of body composition that uses a three-compartment model and displays fat distribution throughout the entire body—i.e. it details fat mass, lean mass, and bone mass for each region of the body. Other popular methods like Hydrostatic Weighing, Bod Pod, and Calipers use two-compartment models, which only measure fat and fat-free mass and can’t report a person’s fat distribution. These methods are also calculated measurements of body fat that require multiple equations, which are often influenced by uncontrollable environmental variables and human error.
DXA, on the other hand, can directly measure the bone density of an individual (its primary purpose in clinical settings) and distinguish it from both that person’s fat tissue and lean tissue. This mitigates margin of error because DXA doesn’t calculate body fat percentage from body density equations or require extra calculations that use non-specific equations—it’s a direct measurement.


Pretty sure the bodyfat conundrum gets solved tomorrow. My left calf has tons of adhesions and is actually smaller than my right calf. Lady says Dexa so accurate, it can confirm.

Let me ask the powerlifters something. How would you feel if you were training with a bar that weighed between -100 pounds and +100 pounds? That's right, that's how off all these visual, calculator, machine bodyfat things are. It's frustrating.

No, au contraire my friend. Tomorrow you will be exonerated.

This thing looks more legit for measuring BF: http://www.e-inbody.com/

Yes!!!!!!!!! That's next!!!!

$1000. But I will recoup by being able to sleep.

Just kidding. It's two tests for $180. In one year I will run the second one to see if I gained any muscles. I can't sleep at night because I am supposedly 8% bodyfat. To be able to sleep is going to be priceless.

Get your numbers in boys

Bodpod1: 9.3%
Bodpod2: 7.9%
DexaScan: ???????????

I am going with 13%.

I still say 11-12%.

Don't care %

A report from Georgia State University says underwater tests usually have less than a 1.5 percent error rate, compared to 3 percent for standard caliper tests. The only thing more accurate, apparently, is Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry, which uses X-rays to measure body fat, muscle and bone composition.


Definitely going to assume my DEXA is going to be accurate. It's a fancypansy institute, it's gotta be good.

Damn, I am getting huge. 5'10" 169!!!!!!! That's almost not laughable.

Of course you don't care, your bar is 45lbs +/- 1. Obviously if I come in at 9 to 11% tomorrow, I am an idiot.

When you were all locoripped, that was at like 156 or so right? So you're 13 lbs heavier and you've been eating 3500ish calories a day a large majority of the time since then? You should be able to ballpark a range pretty effectively, given it would be difficult for you to have gained more than 1-1.5 lbs of muscle per month since then.

12.3%

That's the thing, I was 152 at my nut low in February. I have been eating 4000 on workout days. I am now 169. There has gotta be a whole bunch of fat coming along. DEXA will help me figure it out. Bodpod makes zero sense unless I was 5% at 152 (LOL).

Well, if you were 8% at 152 (let's say), that means you would have had 140 lbs of LBM. You've gained 17 lbs since then, and if we say 9 lbs of that is muscle (which may be a bit on the high side), that puts you at 149 lbs and 12%. If it's just 6 lbs of muscle, that puts you at 146 lbs of LBM and a bit under 14%. I think it's probably somewhere in there.

ETA: And even if you're at 14%, you're still much, much leaner than saw and Yugo, so that's got to feel good.

10.7%

Yeah that sounds about right. Except you need to replace the word muscle with LBM. I have gained anywhere from 5 to 9 pounds of LBM. If I had gained between 5 and 9 pounds of "muscle" I would be facking ecstatic and would be competing with robriches soon!

8.8%