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Skinfold Measurements
To accurately track your progress through this six-week program, it is necessary to take skinfold measurements.
By measuring yourself in this way, you will be able to determine your lean-body mass and your body-fat percentage. The goal of
this program is to increase your lean-body mass and decrease your body-fat percentage.
Please read this section carefully. Proper measuring techniques are essential to track your success. It is best to have someone
measure you. Measuring yourself can lead to inaccurate results.
Women Measure: Suprailium, Triceps, and Thigh
Men Measure: Chest, Abdomen and Thigh
Suprailium
Stand relaxed. Pick up a diagonal skinfold
just above the crest of the hip bone on the
right side of the waist.
Triceps
Stand with right elbow flexed 90 degrees
and locate the center of the back of the
upper arm midway between the shoulder
and the elbow. Relax arm at your side. Pick
up skinfold as pictured.
Thigh
Stand relaxed with most of the weight
on your left leg. Pick up a skinfold in the
vertical plane on the front side of the right
thigh, midway between the hip and knee
joints.
Measurements
Chest
Stand relaxed. Pick up a diagonal skinfold
over the right pectoralis muscle, midway
between the armpit and the nipple.
Abdomen
Stand relaxed. Pick up a vertical skinfold
on the right side of the navel.
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