Digital Fat Caliper: Features, Brands, Retailers (by Ashley Posley)?

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Gone are the days when one struggles to hold a body fat caliper in place while reading the millimeter line marking. The new way of measuring body fat, using a digital fat caliper, saves time and reads with accuracy. Individuals with fitness goals of increasing body mass and decreasing body fat are the ones who benefit most from digital fat calipers.

Digital Fat Caliper Features

The digital fat caliper is an improvement from the manual fat caliper in various ways. Specifically, it beeps to indicate the appropriate pressure, making it very objective. It is designed with position locks that save the measurements on digital screens so that one's hands are free to note the readings. Also, some digital fat calipers convert the measurements from millimeters to inches. Especially convenient, digital fat calipers do not require the interpretation of charts.

Digital Fat Caliper Brands and Retailers

Various digital fat caliper brands are on the market, ranging from $17 to $500. Sequoia Fitness Products Warrior Digital Body Mass Caliper is the most common digital fat caliper sold in stores and online at GNC, Vitamin Shoppe, and Sears. It calculates the total percent of lean body mass and body fat that are averaged from three body sites: the triceps, thigh, and skinfold over the hipbone for women and the triceps, thigh, and chest for men. It includes a CR2032 battery, instructions, and techniques for measuring body fat. Even more, the memory stores the readings of the last four users. Other digital fat caliper name brands sold by various Sears.com online sellers include the following: "AccuFitness FatTrack Gold Digital Body Fat Caliper"; "Accumeasure FatTrack Digital Fat Caliper"; "SPRI Products Skinfold Calipers _ Fat Track Gold Digital"; and "Skyndex II Skinfold Caliper".

Of most significance, a digital fat caliper is a powerful tool in combating diseases such as Heart disease, Diabetes, sleep apnea, and many types of cancer that are triggered by excess body fat. According to the American Council on Exercise, the acceptable ranges of body fat are 25 to 31 percent for women and 18 to 24 percent for men.