Fitness and Muscle Work

What is your Body Fat Percentage? Why Ideal Weight? The body weight display from scales as an indicator of over/underweight is sometimes misleading. It is due to the fact that body composition is different from each individual; frame size, muscle construction, and other factors are variable. It is a better approach to determine our ideal weight by making use of your body fat percentage. First, to determine your desired body fat percentage, you can refer to the Body Fat Percentage Rating Scale (see below). Then, by measuring your body fat percentage and body weight, you can determine your ideal weight. An adequate weight loss program is a combination of exercise and diet. Dieting alone is unhealthy for muscle tissue. Are You Replacing Fat with Muscle? By monitoring the changes of your lean body weight, you will be able to tell whether or not you are replacing fat with muscle. Lean body weight can be found by subtracting your body weight with you body fat weight. You body fat weight is ...