Determining Your Body Fat

To Use The Nomogram:

1)Locate the sum of your three skinfolds in the right column and mark it.

2)Locate your age in years on the far left column and mark it.

3)Connect the two marks with a straightedge. Where the straightedge intersects the line in the middle column appropriate to you, you will find your body-fat percentage.

Female

 

 

Male

 

 

 

 

40

 

 

33

38

 

 

 

 

 

31

36

 

60

 

 

29

 

 

 

34

 

55

 

 

27

 

 

 

 

Years

50

 

32

45

25

 

23

30

 

 

40

28

in

 

35

21

 

 

 

Age

19

26

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

24

 

25

 

 

 

22

 

 

15

 

20

 

 

13

20

 

 

 

15

18

 

11

 

16

 

9

 

14

 

7

 

12

 

5

 

10

 

3

Percent

Body-Fat

130

125

120

115

110

105

100

95

90

85

80

75

70

65

60

55

50

45

40

35

30

25

20

15

10

Sum of Three Skinfolds (mm)

Baun, W.D, Baun, M.R., and Raven, P.B. A nomogram for the estimate of percent body fat from generalized equations.

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 52:380-384, 1981.

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