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Thursday, August 21, 2008

My Body


As an important component of my new training regime, my trainer recommended that I get a DXA body scan, which is the absolute gold standard in measuring body fat and overall body composition.
http://www.bodycomposition.com.au/


The boy has his done about two months ago and I had mine done today.


Anything medical does my head in and going to a medical practice was anxiety ridden for me but well worth the anxiety and time!


You can cut and dice it anyway you want but knowing the EXACT details are a good thing.
So my body fat is 18.2% and my weight is 71.7 Kgs, apparently both are actually in the good range, although I have been advised to gain between 2.5 - 5kgs of lean muscle and overall get to about 75Kgs of weight.
Now before I went I estimated based on the 'pinch' test and the way I looked and felt that I was somewhere between 16 - 19% body fat.
So I have the start of a new program, I know where I am in terms of my body, now I need to set some goals with my trainer and then in about 6- 8 weeks I need to go back and have another one of the scans to see how my body is responding.
You know the most interesting thing is that I feel my tummy is really fat, but according to the scan my tummy fat is well within the optimum, doesn't that say something about my 'ideal' body shape!
http://www.bodycomposition.com.au/
Some really interesting facts about my body are:
Resting Metabolic Rate: 1767 kcal/day
Calorie Intake for weight maintenance 2430 kcal/day
Calorie intake for muscle gain 2200 kcal/day
all that means is that to just keep my body shape and put on no weight I shoudl only be eating about 1767 calories a day! My god I would almost die of starvation I think!

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2 Comments:

At Fri Aug 22, 01:17:00 PM EST, Blogger ultra said...

Looks like you've got a bit of scoliosis there.

 
At Fri Aug 22, 01:19:00 PM EST, Blogger Superdrewby said...

I think I was lying on the machine wrongly but yes I do also have some scoliosis too

 

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