Measuring your body fat percentage through the use of skinfold calipers or some other method is an important part of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. For the past three months I have been recording two sets of skinfold results in parallel.

The first of these is a suprailiac skinfold measurement, following on from the method used by my original Accumeasure calipers. The second uses the three-point Jackson Pollock method, with readings taken from the chest, stomach and thighs.

Having gained experience with the latter method with my Slimguide calipers I am now fairly confident that it is more accurate. The problem with the suprailiac skinfold is that it seems to be very sensitive to where you pinch.

So, from now on I will be basing my fat percentage results solely on the three-point readings. However, these readings tend to come in lower than the suprailiac measurements, on average coming in at 1.7% less. So I will be adding this value to the measurement in order to keep consistency with past results and my goals.