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Hi, I'm Dr. Harry Oken for Columbia Matters,and this month we are at Columbia Athletic Club.
Now, people come to the Athletic Club to get fit. They're also often trying to work on their weight.
Either trying to loose weight, or maintain their weight, so this month we are talking about how to measure your weight.
Now your weight will vary throughout the day, it can vary as much as two to three pounds actually depending on what you have had to drink and what you have done.
A good way of measuring your weight is just a good 'ol scale. It can be your spring scale or the doctors scale that your used to, but there are other ways to measure your weight as well.
A real easy way to measure your progress is just by a simple tape measurer. Just take a tape measurer around a good landmark like your navel,
and wrap it around making sure you can get one finger underneath, that your girth that can be followed, and essentially every inch that you lose is about a lose of 5 pounds.
With me this month is Matt Brenner, owner of BeFit Test, we're going to talk about how to accurately measure your weight.
Welcome back.
thank you Doctor.
So its really challenging and frustrating for people to attain their ideal body weight that they think is right for them.
whats the biggest issue you see here.
Over-training and under eating. Most folks come into the club, they see that positive change, and then they hit the wall.
Most folks will hit that wall, and then they tend to work out harder and cut back even more.
And then they may need to eat more, but eating less- it doesn't fit. When you say hitting the wall, you mean that the weight is plateauing.
Correct correct you tend to gain fat free weight at a quicker clip as you start working out. You are very well- if your under eating gain weight as well.
If your under-eating you can gain weight but that is your body going into survival mode. Your body is storing what its getting as body fat, and its burning that muscle for energy, and of course, the muscle is what burns the body fat.
So essentially, someone if working out very hard, trying to lose weight, and so often as we said, they are taking in not enough calories- the BodPod can guide them as to the optimum amount of calories, so they become a very proficient fat burner.
Correct- we really do want to be careful when we talk about losing weight because it really is the fat that we want to lose, and a scale obviously cant tell you that.
What we are able to do is monitor the two. We want to make sure you are not losing the muscle which is your metabolic engine.
So let's go see a test.
Let's go!
Tell us a little bit about the bod pod.
The bod pod itself, your in there for two 50 second test. It gives us your body's volume. From there, we can figure out your bod's density, and from there we can
figure out your body's weight, composition- as far as body fat and fat free weight, which is actually more important to know than your body composition numbers. What we are doing is giving you your resting metabolic weight.
Generally viewed as how many calories you would burn if you were just resting in bed all day.
And then we are providing different activity levels- sedentary, low, active, and very active. which then gives you a guide to how many calories you should be consuming to really accomplish what you want given your activity levels.
The BodPod will track and graph your progress over time, so as you test its going to let you know: are you gaining the right weight,
and are you losing the right weight as well.
Thanks Matt, well this is terrific technology for understanding where you are and where you want to go.
For more information please visit befittest.com or
contact personal.training@ColumbiaAssociation.org
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