How do I know?

[Bimmer]

I always hear people say that they lost so and so lbs of fat and gained so and so pounds of muscle while on ASS. How does a person know what they gained and what they lost. Am I missing something? Is it done by body fat measurment?

 

[Mudge]

You have to know your bodyfat percentage and bodyweight. If you get some calipers you can figure this out, HOWEVER it is very easy for people to make mistakes in calculations, and unless you have an assistant you are pretty much reduced to a 3 point test.

If you calculate 15% bodyfat and you are 200 pounds, thats 30 pounds of "fat." That is an estimate of course as there is visceral fat, but that is how we basically calculate it. Since bone density hardly changes, it doesn't bother me to call the rest LBM, and that is what people do. 30 pounds of fat and 170 pounds LBM.

The electro impedance scales are bogus, calipers or bust.

 

[Big Mac Attack]

The electro impedance scales are bogus<----------10000% true just by changing your drugs you will get a different reading a month later. For example drop a few A Bombs and kick up the G a couple units and see how lean you are on one of those things. Intracellular water will fuck up the data big time. So its useless from test to test as well.