An internal study from that past year of 2,690 soldiers found the old tape test to be a flawed way to measure body fat: 35% of tape tests were deemed inaccurate. However, those errors were almost ...

The scanners are standard methods of measuring body fat in the health care field and professional athletics. Army planners concede the machines are far more accurate than the tape test ...

Army gym goers may soon see shorter lines to use neck exercise machines, as the service announced Monday that it will phase out the current system for measuring body fat by mid-2024. Don’t throw ...

The Army is changing its tape test – a method to measure soldiers’ body fat by taking the circumference of various parts of a soldier’s body with a measuring tape. The tape test, an often ...