When to retest your body composition

Remember, All Action Steps take time to give you measurable progress and require consistency 

• After 21 days anything that you've started, stopped, or changed will remove an old habit (good or bad) you were doing before

• After 30 days: This is typically the earliest amount of time to retest your body composition to see measurable progress. If you’re excited to see how much better your body composition is, schedule a retest.  

• After 40 days that new habit will be solidified and feel effortless

• After 90 days you will have reprogramed your genes and hormones to either better serve you or sabotage you. This is the ideal time to retest your body composition to quantify how much each of your action steps have helped you. Schedule a retest.

At home body composition testing

• Circumferences (Click here to learn how to DIY these) 

• Bioelectrical impedance bathroom scales, gym scales, handheld devices (10-15% error) 

Lab body composition testing

• Bodpod (1% error)

• This 2 minute, effortless test, measures changes in pressure when you are inside the chamber compared to an empty chamber. From these pressure changes, the difference of volume of air you are displacing and your total body volume is calculated.

• Click here to schedule this at a local lab near you

• Underwater (hydrostatic) weighing (1.5% error)

• Based on the Archimedes Principle stating that the buoyant force placed on a submerged object (you), is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. 

• You get weighed on land first and in the water, the difference being your total number of pounds of fat on the surface and around your organs. 

• The test involves the participant being lowered into a water tank until all body parts are emerged, expelling all the air from the lungs, then weighed.

• Click here to schedule this at the University of Minnesota Lab

• Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) (2.5-3.5% error)

• This is a full body low does x-ray scan that shows you your bone density, body fat %, and total muscle mass.

• Click here to schedule this at a local lab near you

• Skinfold thickness measurements (3-5% error) 

• Measures your surface body fat as a whole and quantifies how much fat you have in the 7 main locations of fat storage. 

• Click here to schedule this with me and get a detailed report, and additional holistic knowledge, skills, and resources to empower you