Reddit reviews Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale - 7 Fitness Indicators & 90-Day Memory

>decrease my BMI (for a more supple frame)

Oh gosh, please don't focus on BMI, it's just a terrible measurement, especially for this population.

BMI only considers body mass (kgs), and conveys nothing about body composition (e.g., % body fat & % lean mass).

As such, the same BMI value can represent many different body shapes, and many different states of metabolic health!

BMI has a place in epidemiology, but body composition is what individuals should focus on, and is easy to track these days. Healthy cis-females on average have significantly more body fat than their healthy cis-male counterparts, and progress in this area for MtF folks won't be reflected well by BMI.

My gym offers a fancy body fat check every 4 months for free. They use some kind of machine where a light looks into your arm muscles and comes up with a number. According to them, its the most accurate after the submersion test.

I bought this scale, and I found the results were right in line with what my gym says. I am very happy with this scale. While its possible that both methods are wrong, the fact that they lined up within 1% makes me confident Im getting the right reading.
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One of the reasons I keep repeating..

MEASURE EVERYTHING

If you're relying on a single metric, you're not getting the whole picture of what's going on. :) I don't know if folks other than me can access it, but on MFP I measure various parts of my person, and plug in information from my scale and record it. Should have plenty of interesting data points to play with as time goes on.

There are lots of scales that can measure body composition. I just got this one from Amazon. It tells you how much your skeletal muscle weighs which is what tells you if your actually gaining or losing muscle.

I'll never be at 8% body fat without taking steroids or testosterone replacement. As noted in my flair, I dropped 8% fat, 28% to 20%. That's why the title does not say, "Down TO 8% body fat." I use this monitor to measure my body composition: http://www.amazon.com/Omron-Body-Composition-Monitor-Scale/dp/B0020MMCDE?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

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My Omron Body Fat and Body Composition Monitor consistently reads ~12% +/-0.5% every single morning. I know these things aren't very accurate, but the fact that it's so consistent has almost convinced me.

i just bought this one. i feel like it could be used to help construct the deathstar. so far, it's awesome.

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It’s okay in accuracy. But I like it because it’s easy and you can check the trend. You can also check it regularly.

You can also get a DEXA scan or a Bodpod for an accurate measurement. You can then compare your fat analyzer’s reading to the Bodpod and see how far the readings are.

Gyms can also use calipers to make the measurement.

You can also get something like this which is more accurate because it combines the scale and handheld unit:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0020MMCDE/ref=mp_s_a_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1524397098&sr=8-3&keywords=omron+body+fat+analyzer&dpPl=1&dpID=41n%2BAJ88XzL&ref=plSrch

I love my Omron body composition scale.


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I use this scale: https://www.amazon.com/Omron-Body-Composition-Monitor-Scale/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=sr_1_9_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1542575404&sr=1-9&keywords=body+fat+scale

I seem to see muscle mass increasing visually and feel strength increasing despite body fat fluctuating between 15.3 and 18.7%. It reads muscle mass as about 41%, but I don't know how it obtains that number and I've never seen any journals pay attention to muscle mass percentage. When I used it last night, body fat was 17.5 and BMI was 21.6.

Since my weight isn't increasing, I don't know how to explain that I'm getting stronger.

None of this stuff is medical-grade testing. It uses impedance (electrical resistance) and mathematics to determine all of this. Note: electricity only runs the shortest distance.

For the scale you're considering. Draw a line on your body from the right foot, up the inside ankle, to your crotch, down to the other inside ankle, to the pads on the left foot. The wettest area of that approximate path is all that is being tested. Not your abdomen, back, chest, shoulders, neck or arms.

This is a better design: Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale - https://smile.amazon.com/Omron-Body-Composition-Monitor-Scale/dp/B0020MMCDE

Because it's testing between four points, it's covering more of your body.

There's no cool app to go with it, but you can put this stuff in a spreadsheet (which I recommend) and use averages for trending because the body's hydration levels interfere with all of this and your data will be noisy. (True of the other scale, too.)

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Something like this. But if you just search for "scale body fat" you'll get lots of results. Supposedly, the kind like the one I linked are better than just the floor scale type, because they send a current through the whole body since the hands are involved. YMMV.

I have one of those scales that tells you body fat. It's an Omron scale, and it has a part at the top that you can pick up and hold while it does the body fat measurement. It also tells you muscle percent, visceral fat, etc. I think it's absolutely full of crap (inaccurate), but it is VERY precise. It always gives me the same measurement.

The reason I think it's full of crap is that it consistently says I'm over 40% body fat. I weigh about 145 at 5'4", so not thin, but not morbidly obese. And I do a lot of strength training so I have a pretty good amount of muscle. How can I be 40% body fat? Ugh. I hate that scale. But at least it's precise.

Check it out Omron Full Body Sensor.

https://www.amazon.com/Omron-Body-Composition-Monitor-Scale/dp/B0020MMCDE


More accurate than a handheld body fat checker. Sending the current from your feet to your hands.

I used the Omron Full Body Scale. It fluctuates +/- 3% but you can definitely spot a trend and improvement.

It tracks all this stuff - plus gives you BMI and your daily caloric intake.

I bought one of these and like it.

http://www.amazon.com/Omron-Full-Sensor-Composition-Monitor/dp/B0020MMCDE

i would suggest the omron body scale since it measures both upper and lower body.... as with most things the trend line is more important than individual readings

Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale - 7 Fitness Indicators & 90-Day Memory https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_88-Szb9WJY7VV

Yeah. Some scales differ quite a lot depending on the surface it stands on. In my bathroom I could have a difference of up to 3-4 lbs just by moving it around.

Ended up buying this one. No problem since.

Easy answer.

Go here to find your macros: http://www.lgmacros.com/iifym-leangains-macro-calculator/#.VKOhdivF9ss

Go here to track your calories: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

Buy this, or another composition scale: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1420009951&sr=1&keywords=composition+scale

As previous respondent notes, they're fairly flawed, but maybe the best one is this model, which uses handgrips as well as the foot plate to measure a small current running through your body.

Will be more accurate than most. Assume it can be found on Amazon.co.uk as well.

Buy yourself an Omron body fat tester on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=dp_prsubs_1

It's not 100% accurate, but if you control the variables. Like test every morning, fasted, after using the bathroom, around the same levels of water. You'll be able to see if the fat % is going up or down. Generally, if your weight is staying the same or going up... and your fat % is going down, you're doing very very well.

Also sedentary most of the time and I believe my number is somewhat correct. Of course I burn more on my training days, but 1600-1700 number is what my scale suggests. That number could be wrong (I have this scale), but it works for me and my daily calorie count since I don't lose or gain weight. But I admit I could easily be mistaken for cca. 10%, so...

until they to the point where i was at i controlled my weigth and body mass with one of those (https://www.amazon.com/Omron-Body-Composition-Monitor-Scale/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=sr_1_14_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1474493952&sr=1-14&keywords=scale+body+fat) and the only way i would loose weigth was eating only lean meats, even one week of lettuce and meat would plateau my fat reduction. I had no energy for anything and lost my job.

is it hard to do by oneself? got any good calisthenics besides pushups/situps? i tried for the third time to get into going to the gym, and failed horribly. I can't stand it. I love doing cardio but really need to put on some muscle, and aside from taking up rock climbing (which I've tried, didn't like it) I'm not sure what else I can do.

I thought maybe you had one of these bad boys, which don't seem like too bad of a deal

Here's another option, like I said, not 100% accurate but seems cheap enough.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0020MMCDE/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_vote_rgt?ie=UTF8&voteInstanceId=RYBU8N4NGE1HS&voteValue=-1&csrfT=gNmXOV4hrHh2WDUxOtgi83eF1TIIQHUEu519sk4AAAAJAAAAAFodw9JyYXcAAAAA#RYBU8N4NGE1HS