Infomation for Trainers, Coaches, and Dieticians
Trainers, coaches, corporations, and clinics absolutely love the service we provide.
And for good reason. By testing
in our hydrostatic tank, you can get information on your clients that would not be
possible to obtain any other way. This information enables you to tailor your
training advice and dietary recommendations for each client with more precision than
ever before.
For example, we work with a San Diego-based training studio
that uses our service, which could
easily work for a clinic or camp, is a competition/contest. This studio has competitions
twice a year. They divide up their clients into two groups. Members of each group
get tested at the start, three months later for a mid-way progress check, and at
the end, after six months.
Members are awarded points based on how much muscle they add and how much fat they
lose. The team with the most points at the end wins the competition, and member
with the most points gets a special prize. By having teams, each client feels accountable
to the group to make progress, and all their clients get better results.
Because every point makes a difference, they use our dunk tank to get precise, accurate
measurements of muscle and fat changes with which to tally points. And because they
can commit to a minimum number of tests, testing is cheaper for all their clients.
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Our body fat measurements do not completely invalidate body fat measurements you
provide clients with using calipers or bioelectrical devices. Make sure you and
your clients understand that hydrostatic measurements do not mean that caliper
or bioelectrical measurements no longer matter. Instead, understand that the
measurements you provide are great and accurate for tracking change.
For example, let's say a tests at 25% the first time you measure them with your
equipment, and 20% the next time. The dunk tank, however, shows that they're
actually 15% when you've measured them at 20%.
Although the exact body fat percentage from your equipment may not be dead-on,
the changes that you can show from each of your measurements are if you measure
consistently. If your measurements are consistent and show they've lost
approximately 5% fat, they probably have lost approximately 5%.
Keep measuring your clients outside of the tank if getting dunked frequently isn't
possible. You can still provide an accurate assessment of clients' progress
using your equipment. We're not in the business of competing with you; our
goal is to give people the rare opportunity of using our one-of-a-kind dunk tank.
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Our report shows a resting metabolic rate (RMR) for the test subject. If you've
worked with your client at all on the diet side, you may have given them some
guidance or how many calories to eat a day, or even computed their RMR or basal
MR (BMR) for them.
In some cases, the RMR we compute for subjects may not be exactly the same as
yours. Undoubtedly, you use the best
information you have on your clients to arrive at your figures, and it is likely impossible for
you to be any more accurate without the data provided from our dunk tank.
The only true way to calculate RMR is by knowing a person's exact lean
body mass (LBM). While you can take a person's weight and use formulas to come
up with a recommended daily allowance of calories or RMR, the only components in
the body that burn calories are LBM, so only LBM should be used. Even if you use
LBM as the basis for your calculations, keep in mind that the LBM derived from
hydrostatic weighing is the most accurate reading of LBM that can be obtained
through any method.
The bottom line is that providing a RMR calculation based on hydrostatic testing
isn't a declaration that other estimations are inaccurate. Other estimations
based on other methods are likely good and useful approximations, but using more
data obtained through our testing, we can arrive at figures
that have a higher precision of accuracy than would be impossible otherwise.
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