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Fat vs Muscle: How to Measure Where Your Fat Is, and if You Have Enough Muscle

Well Beyond 40

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How to Boost Your Metabolism

The appadicular skeletal muscle index or relative skeletal muscle index is the sum of upper and lower extremities adjusted with height. You want to have a 7.23 or higher for men, 5.67 or higher for women. And then also, of course, you want to compare your right and left sides. My left arm was 5.9 pounds of muscle and my right was 7.5 pounds of muscle. Then at home, my right arm was a pound less than my left.

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