Determining Your Body Fat
To Use The Nomogram:
1) Locate the sum of your three skinfi)lds in die right column and mark it.
2) Locate your age in years on the ffw left column and mark it.
3) Connect the two marks with a straightedge. Where the straightedge intersects the line in the middle coh[mn appropriate
to you, you will find your body-fat pementage.
Baun, WD, Baun, M.R., and Raven, RB. A nomogram ff)r the estimate of percent body fat from generalized equations.
Reseasrh Quarterly fbr Exercise and Sl)ort, 52:380 384, 1981.
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55
5O
45
4O
35
3O
25
2O
15
Female
Male
-- 40
33 -- 38
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31 -- -- 36
29'
-- 34
27-
-- 32
25
3O
23-
28
21-
26
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17-
15-
13-
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Percent
Body-Fat
--130
--125
--120
--115
--110
--105
--100
_95
--90
--85
--80
--75
--70
--65
--60
--50
--45
--40
--35
--30
--25
--20
--15
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