How to measure your body with a tape

Taking your own body measurements can help you track your fitness results better than relying on the weighing scale — especially if you’re trying to lose fat and gain muscle.

Why? Well, the scale only measures your weight and if you’re losing fat and gaining muscle, you are not going to see difference in your weight but only in the way you look.

Keep track of your body measurements will help you realise the aesthetic difference and will definitely boost confidence in you.

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Let's see the right way to measure yourself with a measuring tape

• Take an inelastic flexible tape to measure.

• Make sure you are wearing fitting clothes while measuring, you do not want to count your clothes as well

• Measure under the same circumstances, meaning the same time of the day, month, wear the same clothes and use the same tape

• Take help from someone else to measure, few areas can be difficult if you need to do it on your own.

Avoid measuring during the day and closer to your period cycle. Morning in empty stomach will be the right choice to measure yourself. 

AREAS TO MEASURE

Arms:

Keep the arm you’re measuring relaxed by your side, and wrap the measuring tape around the peak of your bicep muscle belly — the thickest part of your upper arm.

Chest:

Start by wrapping the measuring tape around your chest at the nipple line. Keep your arms in a relaxed position

Waist:

Wrap the measuring tape around your waist at your belly button. Don’t suck in your stomach.

Hips:

To measure your hips, wrap the measuring tape around the widest part of your butt.

Thighs:

While standing, measure by wrapping the tape around your leg at the midpoint of the thigh.

Calf:

While standing, measure by wrapping the tape around your leg at the thickest part of the calf.