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AccuFitness AccuMeasure FatTrack Gold Body Fat Caliper. Fat Track Gold Digital Body Fat Caliper New (Inclues Myotape) | 
 enlarge | Brand: AccuFitness
Category: Health And Beauty
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 25116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 5
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MPN: 107002303
Model: GOLD
UPC: 744543420030
EAN: 0744543420030
ASIN: B0007ZAM1U
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| Features:
| • | With User Guide and Tips for Obtaining the Most Accurate Body Fat Measurements! | | • | Measure your Body Fat Percentage: by yourself, in seconds and with superior clinical accuracy. |
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Product Description
Product DescriptionThe FatTrack GOLD is a new configuration of the successful FatTrack II, with a MyoTape Body Tape Measure added for extra measurement capability. The FatTrack GOLD Digital Body Fat Caliper with MyoTape enables a user to measure (AND TRACK) body fat % by oneself - easily and accurately. Recommended by Men's Journal, Muscular Development, Oxygen, Physical, Shape, Ironman, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Max Sports & Fitness, American Health and Fitness, IDEA Personal Trainer, and Natural Muscle magazines. Also recommended by the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation, the FatTrack II meets the stringent requirements of weightlifters, bodybuilders, and powerlifters. Whether you are in the Body-for-LIFE challenge, a competitive lifter, personal trainer, or just trying to monitor your body fat to maintain great health, the FatTrack II gives you the do-it-yourself ease and accuracy expected from expensive medical devices. Each FatTrack GOLD product includes: A FatTrack II Digital Skinfold Caliper, Myotape Body Tape Measure, user manual with instructions, FREE copy of "Improve Your Measuring Skill," with practical pointers for getting the best measurement readings and valuable information on ideal weight and muscle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Impossible to use by yourself if you are a woman June 12, 2009
C. Kimmes
If you are a woman, the calipers require you to take a tricep measurement of your right tricep. There is no way you can do this by yourself, as you need to pinch the area and measure it at the same time with one hand. Also, it requires you to take all 3 measurements (tricep, illiac crest and thigh) because it will calculates a fat %, so it is limiting in that respect. If you want to be more scientific, I would get a manual caliper.It also is set up to measure and store 3 users, which may be an issue if you are training multiple people.
 Works, but not consistently March 3, 2009
T. Schwartz
I am not experienced at using body fat calipers, so I am having trouble getting consistent results. I got 17% and 21% in two different measurements back to back.
Good for a few times of use February 24, 2009
Yousef Y. Mohsen (Kuwait)
Very Cheaply built product, I actually bought two and now I don't have neither of them because they brook after a few times of use and were thrown away.
 For the average person...this is excellent! February 20, 2009
SBJ400 (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a certified trainer in college and still have retained my certs but no longer train people other than friends and family.
One thing the average person buying or using fat calipers has no clue of is that proper use of fat calipers TAKES PROPER TRAINING!!!!!!! I have seen some doctors use them so poorly, it was pathetic and my extreme pleasure to correct them and embarrass them in front of their patients.
Here are some very important things to know -
#1 - On average, you need to perform over 100 measurements under supervised instruction before you really know what you are doing with calipers. Yeah! It is not as simple as you would think.
#2 - Measuring yourself can be the most difficult thing to accomplish. I can do it for myself very well but still normally do not do it for myself. I have another trusted and well instructed trainer do it for me.
#3 - You have to know specifically where to pinch. It must be precise. If you are off by so much as a centimeter...it can make a huge difference. So learn the proper locations and use a tape measure and be precise!
#4 - The Accu-Measure manual will not fully teach you what you need to know. Sorry. You will need to find a local course at a college, sports therapy center, etc. then practice, practice, practice.
#5 - When you know what you are doing, measure the same location 3 times. YES! 3 times!! Then take the average of those 3 measurements as your final number and record it in your log.
#6 - Finally, fat calipers are guides. GUIDES. They are not going to tell you body fat to the tenths of a percent level. Instead,
So do not expect perfection folks. More than likely, it is you, the user, that does not implement this tool correctly. For the average person who takes the time and develops there skill...the Accu-Measure product line is really the best and most affordable solution!
Only thing usable was the tape November 10, 2008
Raju Penumetcha
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The measuring tape was great. The caliper itself is not user friendly, you need a second person to help out, and each time I pinch my skin I get a different reading, better off using one of the electrical scales, might not be accurate but better than this torture.
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