Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Body Fat Analyzer


Body fat analyzers are becoming extremely popular. Some body fat analyzers can indeed help you in your quest to improve your health, level of fitness, and make your fat loss & weight loss efforts more effective.

Most people are finally realizing that improving your health, fitness, etc. isn't just about losing a certain amount of body weight. Yes weight can be a determining factor, the more important thing to realize is how much body fat are you actually burning off?

There are various body fat analyzers on sales, although they are supposed to do the same thing - measure your body fat, but they don't always give the same result. So you really need to be more careful when shopping for one, do your own research before committing to one.

I have been going around "testing" the body fat analyzers to get my body fat readings, for free of course. That's how I managed to know that my body fat percentage started with 30% and dropped to 25% recently. But of course you need to do a lot of exercise to burn the body fat. From my own experience

  • exercise at least 45 to 60min at least 5 day/week
  • typically your heart rate must reach at least 65% of your max heart rate before your body will start burn fat, also need to maintain at that rate or higher for at least 20min
  • your Max Heart Rate = 220 - your age, e.g. my MHR = 220 - 40 = 180
  • 65% of MHR = 180 x 65% = 117
I hope this is helpful. Go search the net for more info from the experts.

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