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Body composition is the percentage of bone, muscle and fat in your body.
Skin fold test
This test is use to measure the amount of skin fat a person has using the skin fold calipus
Equipment needed:
Skin fold calipus
Recording sheet
Step by step guide:
1. Make sure the parts that your are measuring are clear (make sure there is just skin)
2. Use skin calipus to measure fat percentage
3. Write it on the recording sheet
Body Composition
Advantage:
1. Cheap as no equipment is needed
2. Easy to do, all you need is to clip the calapus
3. Easy to understand because they are very simple instructions
4. Requires littles space, all you need is a room
5. Can quickly measure body fat, in the video it only took her 10 seconds to get the result
Disadvantage:
1. Inaccurate (only calculates skin fat)
2. Client might not feel comfortable to do it as it require them to remove their shirt.
3. Can only do one person at a time because you cannot measure two person at one time.
4. Need somone with experience to measure (result can be inaccurate)
5. Hard to find skin fold calipus (as it is specialised equipment)