how to accurately measure body fat % myself????

I've never had my body fat% properly analyzed by a dietician before.


For the past couple of months I've started monitoring my Body fat% on my girlfriends scale.

It's one of those models where you insert your age and height and then it gives you your weight, BMI, body fat% as well as water%.

I don't really trust the readings I'm getting because I stepped onto a friends scale over the weekend (similar model - different brand) and the body fat% reading I got was 4% lower than on my girlfriends scale.

Now I know it's a well known fact that you can only get a true body fat measurement by making use of those skinfold calipers the dieticians use.

This might be a really stupid question:

Isn't it possible to buy some calipers online and then just measure myself every week or so and workout my body fat% on my own without having to pay someone a couple of 100 bucks every time?

Where can I buy these skin fold calipers and how would I go about in getting a very accurate Body fat% measurement by my self?

Understand how those things work, it takes the shortest route, eg up the 1 leg down the other....

Only way to get a BF done is by a personal trainer or somebody that knows what they doing, 'pinch tests'.

You can messure your own but you can also get wrong results if you don't know EXACTLY where to measure there is allot of calculators online to measure your BF, eg: punch in the different readings and it will give your result but you need to really know how to do it yourself....

become friends with a trainer at the gym and pop the question (haha pop the question) and let them guide you to do it CORRECTLY. it takes awhile to get it down to an art....

Yes it is kinda tricky cause you have to measure at the exact same spot every time.