Q) Hey Akash, how to check body fat percentage? Which method(s) do you find the most reliable?

A) Hey, Sahil. Thanks for your question.

Here’s how I tracked my body fat from being at 27 percent body fat with 38 inches waist down to 31 inches at 12%- Pic -1

Note: The after picture is just for illustration, however, I don’t have a clear after picture, so I used this one.

My after the picture was clicked 6 months after when I was on a vacation-Pic-2.

So the first question that will come to your mind is, how did I estimate my body fat to be 26 percent body fat in the first place?

Through 2 methods.

First, the bioelectrical impedance machine that I had in my gym and by pooling the data of thousands of members who walked in my health club.

Second, I remember crossing-checking with body fat calipers once as well.

This may still not be accurate, and honestly, I don’t care.

I just did this:

I arrived at a number….26 percent body fat (let’s assume that I am wrong here).

But what really matters is that you are progressing this very number same time and under the same condition.

For example, every time I measured my results, I did it first thing in the morning after drinking a glass of water and getting fresh.

I also measured my waist (from the navel).

What I should have also done was to click regular pictures of me. (Probably, I was embarrassed by the fact that I was Skinny-Fat and didn’t want to have a collection of photos back then.)

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I am glad I clicked a few pictures, as they proved to very quite useful in explaining my transformation to you 🙂

If you are an ectomorph, you will realize these numbers will certainly ring true to you.

If you are an endomorph/mesomorph, chances are that you will be widely wasted, and your numbers would slightly be off the charts.

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