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Question: Using other resources (for example, DVHS elibrary), research and describe five different techniques of measuring body composition in your own words and in complete sentences. Create a table that lists the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Answer 1

(Skinfold Calipers)

used to assess the skinfold thickness, so that a prediction of the total amount of body fat can be made.

(Body Circumference Measurements) to calculate you have to measure you stomach and your hipas and yout hips.For example, if your waist is 30, your hips are 36, and your neck is 13, your circumference value would be 53

(Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) a test that measures the density of your bones.

(Hydrostatic Weighing )is one of the most accurate ways to measure body fat. and is also called underwater weighing

(Air Displacement Plethysmography) (Bod Pod) the volume of an object is measured indirectly by determining the volume of air it displaces inside an enclosed chamber is the answer to the question.