Accurate bodyfat tester

[rotangs on]

What's the most accurate bodyfat tester? I stood on a little machine and put my hands on it and it read my bodyfat and musclemass etc at cityfitness but i think it may be in accurate. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? whats the most accurate way?

[teamfatboy]

AFAIK, those gizmos measure electrical impedence, and that varies with % fluid in the body, so they are inaccurate...even the Tanita ones have two settings, for regular and 'athletic/ muscular' types :-)

I think skinfold measurements are better - there are many systems, and some good threads on here about that.

[frogie2001]

calipers and skin fold tests i have found is the best method of bf% measure. fancy scale things are the devil! lol.

tell angus to stop playing at city fitness and pinch fat.