How to Use Body Fat Calipers

In this video Billy Beck III, gives you the scoop on how to properly use skinfold calipers to estimate body fat percentage. Most personal training courses do not teach the specifics on how to use calipers. This creates a lack of confidence in many trainers which results in either the trainer not measuring or inaccurately measuring. At BB3 Personal Training & Performance Center, we use both Harpendon Calipers via Charles Poliquin‘s Biosignature Modulation technique as well as the latest innovation, Ultrasound to determine body fat percentage. In either case, our staff is trained for 12 weeks on the use of calipers and ultrasound. Each client and athlete is measured at least every 4 weeks and then based off of those results we then create or modify the training, nutrition and supplementation plan to meet the client’s specific goal. It takes more than just going through workouts. There is an art and science to physical change and measuring accurately is a foundational component. If you are not assessing then you’re guessing.

Resistance Training 101: Why are lifting weights so important? Should women do it too?

(excerpt of best selling e-book LEAN & Mean: Fat Burning Secrets of the World’s Best Personal Trainer by Billy Beck III)

Resistance Training 101: Why are lifting weights so important? Should women do it too?

Jamie "Big J" Dalton - One of the Super Trainers at BB3 Personal Training & Performance Center knows the value of Resistance Training

Why are lifting weights so important?

1. If you only do aerobic exercise and diet then you will lose muscle. Simply put, if you don’t use it – you lose it. Muscle tissue must be challenged with resistance in order to be stimulated (irritated).

2. Muscle speeds your metabolism. For each pound of muscle you have on your body, you will burn about 50 calories a day just sitting around.

3. Muscle is where fat is burned. Each one of us is born with a certain number of fat cells that we will always have. However, the determining factor in our health and appearance is whether the fat cells are full or empty. In order to release the contents of the fat cell, the fat cell must be transported into the muscle cell specifically to the mitochondria. This organelle Read more