Healthy Body Fat Percentage

What is considered a ‘healthy body fat’, how do I know what mine is, and where can I get it taken?  We here at Keep It Tight can help you with that!  For members of Keep it Tight, we will take your body fat percentage for you so you know where you stand and what changes, if any, you could make to improve it.  Women tend to have about five percent more body fat than men do. By nature, a woman’s body is developed to protect her and a potential fetus. As a result, women have more enzymes for storing fat and fewer enzymes for burning fat. Additionally, the estrogen women have activates fat storing enzymes and causes them to multiply.
For females, the minimum percent bodyfat considered safe for an adult woman is 12%. The average adult body fat is closer to 22%-25% for women. Athletic women do, however, tend to be at low end of this scale due to the increase in muscle mass.  Women athletes who lose too much fat risk injury, decreased performance and health issues.
Just as too little body fat can cause physiological complications, too much body fat is also harmful. For women over 32% fat, there is a dramatic correlation with illness and disease.  Staying in your healthy fat percentage range has never been more important!  The chart below is a good indication of your health related to your body fat percentage.  If you would like to have yours taken today, make an appointment with Melissa or Johnnie!

Source:  www.womensfitness.net