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    Any Exercise Physiologists in the audience? A friend sent me the following
    message. A bit shocked that the fodder was coming from a men's locker room
    discussion and not from the latest women's health magazine "Letters"
    section, I had some initial thoughts on the validity of the contest but did
    not want to give poor advice. (I would have expected the average group of
    males to contest their bench-pressing prowess, rather than something like
    their loss of relative body fat content.) The questionable reliability of
    skin fold caliper measurements and the difficulty of underwater weighing
    came to mind, but my familiarity with digital body fat scales does not
    extend much further than the ads in the airlines' "Sky Mall" magazines. Can
    anyone comment on these scales and on the contest in general? Certainly,
    3000-bucks seems like a good motivator, and all participants will be the
    better regardless of who in the office wins the money. My suggestion,
    however, would be that he who has the most to "lose" at the onset of the
    contest, stands the most to win. Is there a more appropriate way to go
    about this, given that the sample of people most likely varies quite a bit?


    -----Original Message-----

    Question:

    Since you have a background in exercise science I thought you could
    give
    your opinion on a situation we have at work.

    A group of guys at work are in a body fat % contest. The person who
    loses
    the highest % of body fat over three months will win the pot of
    money. On
    day one, everyone weighed in on an electronic scale that measures
    body fat %
    digitally. It's a high quality scale that came from our fitness
    center and
    everyone was measured by a certified fitness expert. Three months
    later,
    everyone will weigh out. You get the picture.

    The question is, how accurate is this method? Are some body types
    more apt
    to weigh in with less % than others, etc. We have about 30 guys
    grumbling
    about the effectiveness of using the electronic scale for good
    reason
    because the pot is at about 3K.

    Just thought you would be a good source of input.

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