Body Fat?

[KittyLuck]

ok I am new to this so I don't have any idea what that means. ^_^;

i took an online test here

http://www.healthcentral.com/cholest...-2774-143.html

and the results it gave me are these

You have 15.6% body fat.

You have 20.3 Pounds of fat and 109.7 Pounds of lean (muscle, bone, body water).


can anyone give me an idea how good/bad this is? and a little bit more information? thank you.

[stella summers]

That site is inaccurate. You can't determine your bodyfat by just punching numbers in. Try to get tested using either skinfold calipers, or better yet - hydrostatic weighing (only this method is expensive, but the most accurate).

Scroll down to the chart here to have a look at the healthy bodyfat ranges for specific age groups.

[empresscat]

If you must use an online calculator, at least use one that includes some body measurements. You can't tell a person's body fat percentage even remotely based on just their height and weight.

This one is decent, just scroll down to the female section and use the "tape measurement" method.
http://www.linear-software.com/online.html

[mmmcookiesnmilk]

my digital scale says it calculates body fat percentage, do you guys give any credit to scales that do that? I've entered in my height and age so I guess it has some idea, but I'm not really sure.