Reddit reviews Sequoia Fitness TrimCal 4000 Body Fat Caliper (Black) [Health and Beauty]

• OPTIMUM NUTRITION Gold Standard Double Rich Chocolate
  
  
• Flat shoes for lifts. If you have the money you can do something like adidas powerlift 2.0 shoes for 90 dollars or so and use them for squats and such. Grab some barefoot shoes or just deadlift barfoot.
  
  
• Grip chalk. You likely won't need it now but getting a brick
  
  
• calipers. You don't really need this unless you just want to track it and to ensure not gaining too much fat.
  
  
• Maybe some vitamins
  
  
• Creatine
  
  
• blender bottles. Grab a couple.
  
  
• Gym bag, lock
  
  
• Small tanktops to show off the gains

Consider purchasing some calipers the barrier to entry on having any real idea as to what your body fat % is.

I found these for $10.50 on amazon. You may even do better if you shop around.

Accurately, you'll have to go to a sport's medicine place and get some tests, but that costs money and that level of accuracy is unnecessary for deciding to bulk or cut.

If you want a ballpark, there are a few different methods.
There's comparing yourself to pictures: http://www.builtlean.com/2012/09/24/body-fat-percentage-men-women/

There's bodyfat calipers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B2MIDFY/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This didn't work out for me because I'm squeamish and hate pinching my skin under fat and stuff.

There's impedance meters: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FYZMYK/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The theory is the more fat you have, the more a current is impeded as it flows through your body.

Congrats, keep it up!

I don't have a goal weight, but a goal body fat percentage. I am trying to avoid losing lean body mass as much as possible while burning fat, but some loss there is inevitable. In any case, my goal body fat percentage is 10%, or just below so I can claim single digit body fat percentage :). Then I'll start a reverse diet up to maintenance calories (add about 50 daily calories per week until hitting whatever my TDEE is at that time), stay there through summer, and then start a bulk in the winter (TDEE * 1.10 calories, i.e., adding 10% of maintenance calories).

Rather than assuming it's going to muscle, I'd encourage you to get some calipers. This is the one I use. I measure myself with them once a week, and calculate body fat using this site.

All the best!

Do you have some old clothes that you use to fit in? They can be a better gauge of your weight loss. The scale can really get you depressed. The scale didn't move for me for weeks, but I had to tighten my belt a notch. IF promotes lean muscle and bone density - it is pretty common around here for folks not to see the scale move for periods of time.

I ended up buying these and rely on them:

https://www.amazon.com/Care-Touch-Skinfold-Body-Measuring/dp/B01BMY8P0E/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1504909894&sr=8-2&keywords=waist+measuring+tape

https://www.amazon.com/Sequoia-Fitness-TrimCal-4000-Caliper/dp/B00B2MIDFY/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1504909916&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=fat+caliper&psc=1&smid=A3H9V1EMGQSHX7

https://www.health-calc.com/body-composition/skinfold-d-and-w

http://www.amazon.com/Sequoia-Fitness-TrimCal-4000-Caliper/dp/B00B2MIDFY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1420585548&sr=8-2&keywords=body+fat+calipers


First one popped up. Shop around on there. Can prob find cheaper ones.

How about, hold everything else constant like exercise routine and sleep patterns etc. Take fat caliper and tape measurements and post before/after measurements?

http://www.amazon.com/Sequoia-Fitness-TrimCal-4000-Caliper/dp/B00B2MIDFY/

http://www.amazon.com/AccuFitness-MT05-MyoTape-Body-Measure/dp/B000G7YW7Y/

Challenge would be to lose x% bodyfat or y total inches.

I use this. It's pretty reasonably priced and just as accurate as any at home electrode based device.