Body Composition Testing

Scales Lie

Knowing your body can help you keep on track with a wellness routine over the winter break. Understanding your body is about more than a simple number on a scale.

To help you keep your break fit, the Wellness Program at the Student Recreation Center is offering free body composition testing. Find out about your ratios of muscle, good fat, bad fat and water.

Ultrasound is Better:

We use an ultrasound method to measure body composition. 

• Women’s ultrasound measurements: waist, hips and triceps. 

• Men’s measurements: thigh, waist and chest.

• Helpful Tip: Wear comfortable clothes.

When:

Tuesday Nov 26: 11 am -1 pm
Wednesday Nov 27: 3-5 pm
Thursday Nov 28: 6-8 pm

Where:

The Personal Training Room on the second floor of the Student Recreation Center.

Free Massages:

In addition to providing the body composition testing free of charge the Wellness Program also wants you to reward yourself with a free 5-minute chair massage after your test.

The Science Stuff:

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about how the process works:

"Ultrasound is used extensively to measure tissue structure and has proven to be an accurate technique to measure subcutaneous fat thickness. A-mode and B-mode ultrasound systems are now used and both rely on using tabulated values of tissue sound speed and automated signal analysis to determine fat thickness. By making thickness measurements at multiple sites on the body you can calculate the estimated body fat percentage. Ultrasound techniques can also be used to directly measure muscle thickness and quantify intramuscular fat. Ultrasound equipment is expensive, and not cost-effective solely for body fat measurement, but where equipment is available, as in hospitals, the extra cost for the capability to measure body fat is minimal."