Scale is accurate, body fat percentage is WAY, WAY off

memory is less than hoped for | Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale

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	• Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale Omron Omron average customer review:based on 229 reviews
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highly recommended

First top quality scale I've owned

Don't try rocking back and forth on this scale to manipulate the outcome, because no matter what you do it's always within .2 of one pound within the same number.

I have never had a scale before that had this type of accuracy. It's a new concept for me to go to the doctor and have my weight be the same as it was at home. Didn't we always think the doctor's scales made us fat?

Anyway, this is a great scale and the performance in no way relates to the price. It's a great deal for the price.

Scale is accurate, body fat percentage is WAY, WAY off

Scale is very accurate. It's pretty much dead on with the very expensive scale at my gym. It also works great on a carpeted floor. Some scales don't do a very good job on surfaces that are not hard surfaces.

The body fat measurement is not even in the ballpark. I'm a bodybuilder and my body fat is currently around 9% and this scale measures it at around 25%..... YIKES!!! (Check out my abs training, fitness website: 6packin dot com )
As a work around I set the height to the max setting and set the age to 20 years old..... this gives me a body fat reading of about 10.9%...... close enough to monitor my progress.

If this were just a scale I would easily give it 5 stars, and in this price range, it's probably worth getting if you are looking for an accurate scale. However, forget about the body fat feature. I don't recommend this product if you are looking for something that will give you an accurate body fat reading. I wish there were a way to calibrate the reading.... for instance, entering your stats after a caliper body fat measurement and storing that as the starting point to monitor your progress. That would be a feature I'd be willing to spend more $$$ for.

Good luck with your fitness goals!

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memory is less than hoped for

This item came in a very reasonable amount of time and is fairly easy to use once reading through the manual. The memory function is less than what i had expected it to be, there are only certain intervals that it remembers. Such as the same day entry,7 days ago,14 days,30, 60, and 90, or an entry falling closest to one of the intervals above. Overall a great product i would recommend it to others.

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Forget losing weight or how much water you've got in you; what really matters is fat, muscle, and resting metabolism.

If I'm a 200 pound guy with 15% body fat (like Tyson was at his peak) should I be concerned about losing weight? Of course not. But if I'm dieting, losing weight, and I notice that my skeletal muscle percentage is dropping--which means I'm probably losing bone mass as well--then I have cause to worry.

Actually, when I was a national competitor in full-contact kickboxing back in the mid-90s, I weighed about 165 lbs and my body fat percentage was a near unhealthy 10%. While other fighters were eating salad, I was encouraged to eat cheeseburgers and fries because my coach and teammates were worried that I had become too lean. According to the BMI chart, I was only 10 lbs below my ideal weight, but the fact was I really needed get myself up to a healthy 185lbs.

Now I'm well above that ideal number, and 40 years old, yet still don't need to lose weight. I need to lose fat, and particularly visceral fat--which this scale offers the unique feature of measuring.

As far as knowing the amount of water in my body (something a lot of high end scales measure), why should I care about that? If I'm dehydrated I'll be thirsty; if I'm overhydrated I'll probably faint from the high blood pressure; in other words, I've got all the indicators I need by nature with regard to how much water I need in my body.

Displaying the history for 1, 7, 30, and 90 days is a great feature so I can track if I've lost fat or not, or if I've lost a disproportionate amount of weight to fat ratio and should change my strategy or habits.

The manual that comes with this scale is extremely educational and could really almost stand alone as an informative and conscise manual on weight management.

SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS:

1. After getting really drunk one night, the next morning I weighed a good 20lbs less and lost about 3% or 4% of my body fat. This was a false reading of course because I was severely dehydrated and still had alcohol in my blood from the night before--not that I wasn't a bit gitty at seeing the numbers.

2. My weight regardless of when I measure it is fairly consistent--so the scale is accurate--but it's true what the manual tells you about best times to weigh yourself. If I weigh myself immediately after getting home from work, I'm down 1 point on visceral fat and show 3% less body fat than if I weigh myself just before going to bed--long after dinner--and just upon waking up in the morning. I haven't tried it immediately after intense exercise (such as cycling 30 miles), but imagine the effect is pretty much the same.

BOTTOM LINE: If you're goal is really just to lose weight, you don't need this scale. But if you want to lose fat and know to what degree you're really killing yourself with visceral fat that you should concentrate on losing, then this is exactly what you want.

The manual is also outstanding, and at this price getting such an outstanding item that's so well thought out, designed, and constructed is a no brainer of a deal.

Forget Tanita. OMRON has been making better and more numerous diagnostic machines that are all around better, without the overinflated pricetag.

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Muy buen producto

Es un aparato bastante completo, porque hace las mediciones que menciona en la presentación del producto y además no es complicado de usar. Puede programar hasta cuatro personas y tomar las mediciones de cada una. Para programarlo quizas fue la parte más complicada pero siguiendo las instrucciones del manual estará listo en pocos minutos. Recomendado ampliamente.

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