It is a common misconception that body weight translates to a person’s overall level of fitness and health.
Insurance companies and doctors alike measure how you fit into health norms by something called your BMI. BMI stands for Body Mass Index, and is an equation in which an individual’s body weight is divided by the square of his height. This formula is fast and easy, and produces very consistent numbers, allowing for statistics to be established on the general population. The downside to BMI is it does not differentiate what makes up a particular person’s weight.
Aside from body fat, our organs, water, blood, skin, bones, muscle and ingested food make up major portions of our overall body weight, which is not accounted for within BMI. These outside factors make BMI results wildly inaccurate.
Here at The Hit Center, we use one of the most comprehensive body composition measurement devices available to the public. It is called the BodPod (air-displacement plethysmography), and it is a barometric chamber similar to hydrostatic weighing (done in a tank of water). The BodPod produces very accurate results in establishing a person’s body fat to lean mass percentages.
Lean mass is everything in your body other than your body fat. The BodPod is fast, easy, and can be reproduced by any administrator without sacrificing the accuracy of the results. This reliability allows our trainers to establish your exact level of fitness, and help you develop a plan to reach your goals, whether it is through modification of your caloric intake, or to your daily activity levels. The BodPod is you, on paper!
The Hit Center has helped hundreds of people reach their fitness goals, and the BodPod has played a huge role in our ability to do that. Whether your goal is to lose weight, build muscle, or to gain weight and size, the BodPod helps. Our BodPod report helps establish what you are made of, and takes the guesswork out of reaching your goals. You will know your resting metabolic rate, the caloric cost of certain activities, how many sessions you will need to reach your goals, and where you should be fitness-wise, based on your gender and age.
If you are looking into starting a fitness routine, dietary change, or you just are interested in what you are made of, The Hit Center and the BodPod can help. To schedule your free fitness assessment and your BodPod body composition test, call The Hit Center today at (480) 981-0600.