I Think 24 Hr. Fitness Lied To Me...

**LawMan018** · 06-20-2007, 07:44 PM

Okay so they are doing this free bodyfat testing this one day when I was working out so me and my buddy were like sure... Now my buddy is like 5'10" 165 just started working out.. He's your average looking guy, can't see a lot of muscle mass but not really much fat... Anyways they gave him a reading of 25% bodyfat... wtf? I thought that was high as hell? And they gave me a 15% bodyfat which they say is the fit range... I thought your abs started showing real well at 7% and mine do and I know have very, very little fat... Ionno, maybe they're trying to screw with us to get us to buy into their personal trainer crap!

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 06-20-2007, 09:25 PM

24 Hour Fitness sucks. Them and Bally can go to

**C_Bino** · 06-20-2007, 09:52 PM

Well how did they test for bf%?

**PeteyK** · 06-20-2007, 10:06 PM

prolly some chick just walked up to them and pinched them...not very precise...tell them next time that u got ur bodyfat checked in a watertank and it was 8% just to see what they say

**Tazwell** · 06-20-2007, 10:24 PM

I had a body fat test at 24 hour, they did it with my clothes on. Of course they gave me some high %. They just do that so you'll buy some personal trainer sessions IMO.

**LawMan018** · 06-20-2007, 10:35 PM

Yeh, that's what I'm thinking Taz... Basically they pinched my tricep, back of shoulder, had my scrunch my back and pinched it, then they pinched my obliques...

**Coop77** · 06-20-2007, 10:42 PM

calipers aren't very accurate

**C_Bino** · 06-20-2007, 10:50 PM

Ya usign calipers they should atleast do the 5-point formula not 3. Who cares its obviously wrong and the idiots there dont know what they are doing. Calipers told me once I was 25% bf. Whatever, numbers dont matter.

**CSAR** · 06-20-2007, 11:28 PM

24 Fitness and their calipers lie. The mirror doesn't - unless you're at a Fun House.

**5ifthCitizen** · 06-21-2007, 12:02 AM

i used to be a trainer at 24. the calipers at my 24 were extremely accurate, its just some of the trainers don't know how to use them correctly. i never lied to anybody about their BF just to get them to buy a package, u probably just got somebody who doesnt know what they're doing. how many pinches did they do? shoud have been one on ur tricep, one on the bicep, one on your middle-upper back, and one on your side a**ominals

**LawMan018** · 06-21-2007, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by pgilligan10

i used to be a trainer at 24. the calipers at my 24 were extremely accurate, its just some of the trainers don't know how to use them correctly. i never lied to anybody about their BF just to get them to buy a package, u probably just got somebody who doesnt know what they're doing. how many pinches did they do? shoud have been one on ur tricep, one on the bicep, one on your middle-upper back, and one on your side a**ominals

They got one on my tricep, on on back of shoulder, one in middle of back when I scrunchd my shoulder blades together, and 1 on obliques

**SnaX** · 06-21-2007, 03:34 AM

24 hour is a bunch of incompitant people. The ones I see are overweight!
And there are SO many of them, I wonder how the gym can afford to have them all there at the same time..
It's rediculously retarded.

There was this one guy there who I KNEW had the smarts for bodybuilding..l he would bulk up, and lean out. Smart guy who knew how to train and diet properly. I think he quit after a few days when he saw the people he was working with.

**5ifthCitizen** · 06-21-2007, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by SnaX

24 hour is a bunch of incompitant people. The ones I see are overweight!
And there are SO many of them, I wonder how the gym can afford to have them all there at the same time..
It's rediculously retarded.

There was this one guy there who I KNEW had the smarts for bodybuilding..l he would bulk up, and lean out. Smart guy who knew how to train and diet properly. I think he quit after a few days when he saw the people he was working with.

lol that might have been me

**spywizard** · 06-21-2007, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by PeteyK

prolly some chick just walked up to them and pinched them...not very precise...tell them next time that u got ur bodyfat checked in a watertank and it was 8% just to see what they say

YEP,

and i'll pay for a trainer as soon as one works there that knows more than i do.

some of the guys are bigger than me, but i have different goals..

**collar** · 06-21-2007, 04:55 PM

your abs starts showing at 12%,
and 14 to 16% is the normal. for most fit people.

**SnaX** · 06-21-2007, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by pgilligan10

lol that might have been me

hah, that would be funny

I think this guy used to make up diet plans for people, for like $50 before he was even working at 24hour.

Anyways, if this was you, I'm sorry you had to work with those people!

The one gym in the city north of me had a HUGE fatty working there. And the gym in the same city (by a mall) has a bunch of chubby kids, and some skinny kids.

None of them look like they know what they are talking about. It's like they do routine stretches, which I don't think are that helpful.. but maybe some I dunno..

Man.. 24hr.... pft.. I like PowerHouse WAY better :P

**taiboxa** · 06-21-2007, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by collar

your abs starts showing at 12%,
and 14 to 16% is the normal. for most fit people.

mine are visible at 10 for the win

**Joe Dic** · 06-21-2007, 08:19 PM

WhenI got checked I got my pec, to the side of my belly button and the top of my thigh....

Im not chasing a 6 pack Im happy with my keg, I just figure if I get my back and shoulders wide enough itll look like I have a small waist.

heres pics of caliper test sites, The guy grabbed my tit like he was gonna suck on it and caliperedvertically by the nipple as oppsed to the pic. Same with stomach did it to the front not the side.

http://www.topendsports.com/testing/skinfold-sites.htm

**5ifthCitizen** · 06-21-2007, 09:31 PM

haha thats sad man. 24 puts all their trainers through 100 hours of training before they can be trainers (unless they are already nationally certified). seems like after 100 hours they should know where the pinch sites are and in which direction.