Body Mass Index (BMI)
This type of calculator is the least accurate of any type of body fat measurement. It only measures dimensions of body parts. That means, if you have built lot of muscle, the BMI calculator will provide completely inaccurate results. It does not take into consideration the fact that muscle may be most of the dimensions. For men, when you select "Male" to begin, you will not be able to enter anything in the "Hips" field - because that's not an area of measuring male body fat. Males have 3 areas to measure. Females have 4 areas to measure.
Maximum Heart Rate (MHR)
You need to know your heart rate during exercise, resting, or minor activities. Knowing your heart rate tells you if your heart is working too hard, or just right.
If you do not know what your hear rate is during your workout, it's very possible your work is in vain. This is a critical piece of information required to hit your target goal(s).
Body Fat Chart
Take a look through the chart to see where "healthy" is for your age. Those over 55 will see that body fat charts, for whatever reason, provide a limited number of body fat percentages. For those over 55, it would seem, as long as you are under 20% body fat, you are "supposed" to be satisfied with that. That is up to each individual. When you are happy with what you see in the mirror, switch to a "maintenance" program.
Activity Chart
This chart provides a large list of activities and the Calories burned for various body weights. See how many Calories your typical activities burn. You may be surprised. Some activities you thought were burning more Calories, and some activities burn less than most know.
Garrison Body has several additional calculators that will help you with your physical condition assessment, help you burn fat, and provide insight into your eating habits.
Proprietary Calorie Calculator
The Garrison Body Calorie Calculator is different in that the calculations are specific to "you", your weight and your activities - not generalized for all.
The first thing you do with this calculator is enter your weight, Then you select the various activities you performed during one 24-hour day. Each activity needs you to input the "minutes" you performed that activity. (All calculations are done in minutes, so there is a simple hours-to-minutes converter available too.) These activities are then compared to all the food you ate for that same 24-hourday. You must keep an accurate listing of all foods and the calories for each. After entering all your activities, you then type in the number of calories you ate for that same 24-hour day. The end result? When you click the "Calculate" button, you will see how many Calories you burned for that day, how many Calories you ate (which you need to measure in order to KNOW), and the results will tell you how much you are over, under or if you ate just the right number of Calories for that day's worth of activities.
Instead of providing a calculator that is based solely on formulas, Garrison Body has incorporated this calculator with "Real World Experience". That means, instead of providing some random, generic formula that is nowhere near accurate, this calculator is based upon years of experience in weight training, monitoring food consumption, working with many varieties of people, understanding how the body works as well as studying health and nutrition. Because all of that is incorporated into this calculator, your results will be so accurate that you will be able to quickly understand the number of calories you require daily, and how many calories you burn daily so you actually see the results of your work.
Garrison Body cuts to the chase. When it comes to calories, USDA states that the "average" calorie consumption for a person is 2,000 calories daily. But that is based upon a 24 year old male athlete in top physical condition. If that is not you, then how many calories does "YOUR" body require? Garrison Body already knows that 2,000 calories daily is far too much for most people. So this calculator has been tried, tested and refined until its results are highly accurate. This calculator does require some effort on your part. You do need to document all of your calories for 1 day, along with all of the activities you performed for that same day and for how many minutes each. You then add all that information into the calculator and see your results immediately.
Daily Protein Requirement for YOU
Based on your age and weight, our proprietary Protein calculator uses calculations as accurate as possible. This is not a generic "get-you-in-the-ballpark" calculator. This is one of the few formulas that is accurate on its own.
If you do not eat "enough" Protein daily, your body is not going to function as it should. As a result, your body may need to eat some of your muscle.
If you eat "too much" Protein daily, your body will "store" the unused Protein. This means, you gain fat! The body has no other means to deal with too much food or Protein but to convert it to fat and store it with all your other fat. So it's critical for you to know how much Protein your body requires daily.
Knowing the amount of Protein you need to consume daily will keep you from pushing your body into a situation where it will consume your muscle, or, from eating too much Protein and increasing your fat storage.
Well-known sites on the Internet provide information that is extremely generic when it comes to the amount of Protein as well as calories one should consume daily. Those generic formulas, for the most part, will have you eating far too much Protein and far too much food daily if you follow their calculations. Instead, what you want is something that provides how much "you" need of either daily. Garrison Body has taken the time and effort to provide calculators that actually show you accurate results. Instead of simply looking at numbers, Garrison Body has studied how things work in the "real-world" and not just numbers. Monitoring body weight, body fat, calories (consumed and burned), Protein consumption, and age, this information proved that calculators require all this information to be combined for accuracy which requires more consideration for "life" than simply numbers.
Professional Workout Creator
How many times have you seen someone carry a sheet of paper or book of some sort with the exercises they are to perform?
How many times have you laughed at them?
Do you know why they carry that? So they can perform their program with precision to achieve goals faster and better than trying to remember all that you must. It's not easy to perform 2 exercises per muscle group and remember the weight for each exercise precisely, remember the number of reps precisely, the number of sets precisely, remember the order of the workout (very important), and, remember the rest period between each set?
If you can remember all of that, will you remember all the changes you need to make and when? Because you do need to change that program every 2 weeks. Do you know "how" to change the program?
You get the idea. There is a lot to do in addition to lifting. Take the paper, notebook or your phone. You can transfer all of the information to your phone if you wish. Or simply take a picture of the most recent printout that you made from the Garrison Body Professional Workout Program calculator.
The only thing you need to do in order to use the calculator is to perform your 1-Rep Max (1RM = one repetition maximum). You decide the exercise you wish to perform. Choose 2 per muscle group. Each muscle group is defined in the calculator. There are even images with labels so you understand what muscle is where on your body. The calculator will print out your program for a 2-week period. You will see each muscle group and the exercise you entered for that group. The muscle groups are outlined in the ORDER NECESSARY! Yes, there "is" a particular order to work out so that you get the most value from your hard work.
Why should you have to exercise in any particular order? Because your "body" says so. This isn't just an opinion. This is science. Whatever activity you are performing, you are mandating your body perform at its peak. Your body requires certain valuable conditions in order that your body will respond well to what you are doing.
Working your back one day and your chest the next day (or something similar) is a waste of time. You can do that until the cows come home and your results will be poor, if any. Your body has chemistry that must be present in order that you not only get the most benefits, but you do not harm something.
If you think you are not harming your body by working out 2 days on upper body, you are wrong. Consider - exhaustion. Many times you have heard people who use steroids will work muscles to exhaustion. That is a horrible way to work out, and it ONLY works with steroids (or other serious enhancements). So if you read that sort of thing in a body building book, throw it away.