You should find someone else who is experienced to use it on you. This is because inexperience can (and often does) creates a large error of estimation.

In any case, you can practise on someone else until you have got the hang of it. There are resources you can google on how to use it. Also, it should have a manual right?

Oh dear.

Well, I am assuming you know chest, bicep and waist yes? Quad is short for Quadricep which is your thigh muscle:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Quadriceps&...chrome&ie=UTF-8

Yes you can... but you are almost 100% sure to get a wrong reading because you are inexperienced...

Most calipers are designed to be used by someone else to measure, not self-measurement. Yours might be designed for self-measuring in which case, measure the parts, add them up and check the chart. Then repeat like 5 times and see how much variation there might be.

Edited to add: Ah I googled it and saw it is in fact for self-measuring. So, follow the instructions and like I said-repeat it several times to see if it is more or less the same or too much variation.

This post has been edited by shadowz: Jan 30 2013, 09:15 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Accu-Measure-Fitness...r/dp/B000G7YW74

I suggest reading through and seeing what others who used it successfully suggest It looks like a decent product but as I expected, needs some getting used to.