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I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson

Hello, and we are going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today

But first like always if you got a few things to go through

Nate do you want to kick us off sure? We did a dexatess

Mm-hmm, so and people that if you didn't see this on our Instagram story which that expires within 24 hours

You just got to stay tuned to that but

We I went through all the details on this and what it means and for those that listen to the podcast for a while

You'll know that we've done dexas cans before which are

basic body fat scans highly accurate body fat scans that measure not just your visceral fat the fat or

subcutaneous fat the fat below your skin but also your visceral fat and

inter muscular fat

Mm-hmm, so it normally gives people much higher ratings and they like to think they are the normal body fat percentages

That we're all familiar with those are usually taken with skin-fold tests or something similar to that and we've actually found that almost with with surprising

Consistency a dexas usually right around double what that is another thing we found with

Surprising consistency is that the dexa gives you a complex

Oh, yeah about how fat you are. Yeah, that's completely true. So it is basically

It's cool because you get a report that gives you a breakdown of how much lean mass and how much

Fat mass you have a super detailed breakdown too. It's also exactly where you're carrying the weight

What that gives you by your left arm your right arm separates your trunk and the quadrants. Yeah, so results

This has been 11 months since we first started so my first result. I was 23.7% which seemed crazy high

I don't think I looked at that back then

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