Countdown To Fifty

Courtesy of my fabulous trainer at Whole Body Fitness I was treated to another hydrostatic body composition test today at Fitness Wave. For those unfamiliar this is a test that requires you to strip down to your bathing suit and get into a 7 foot long/3 foot deep “pool”. You are hooked up to a grid below that attaches to a scale above.

As you lie in a prone position you inhale deeply and submerge in the water, while hanging on to the grid at the bottom of the pool, and exhale ALL of your breath quickly. This is repeated 3 times. From this test (and using weight, height, and ankle circumference) the following can be read:

• Body Fat
• Lean Body Mass
• Fat Body Mass
• Metabolic Information
• Ideal Body Fat

My stats are out in the right column.