are any of these smart scales accurate, specifically on body fat percentage? this one is on sale for 39.99. wondering if its useful for someone who wants to track all this stuff or totally inaccurate.
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I doubt it, especially at that price.
If you are proportionate in your body fat distribution top/bottom, then yes. Basically electrical impedence runs from one leg to the next through your groin and calculates an estimate based off electrical resistance (fat, muscle, bone have different resistance to current).
If you are technically very harmonious in your fat distribution, then yes, it would be accurate. It also depends on whether the calculation input in the scale is right, but for the sake of argument, let's assume they are.
I own one of these and it's about 1-2% variance to the caliper or tape measuring tests. It's also visibly pretty accurate, as I do look like what I am being told I am.
I have the Renpho one. One thing to know is that if you are visibly anywhere under 20%bf as a man and 25%bf as a woman, you should use the ''athlete'' mode which is actually more accurate for what I would call ''healthy weight'' people. Otherwise you will get a calculation which reflects a very sedentary life and projects more of a fatter physique.
thanks renpho seems a bit cheaper so I might go for that.
I'm female, extreme skinnyfat with utterly no muscle, I track my weight but don't know if there's really a point to tracking body fat unless I start working out. getting a new scale either way though
Proof?
So we can check the accuracy of the reading
In my personal experience, some people (including me) can get very motivated by the methodical aspects of tracking progress.
Even if your body fat percentage estimate is not accurate, as other poster has mentioned above, you can and will still notice long term progressions (good or bad) by virtue of the measuring tool not changing. So you will be able to see for example a decrease in weight or bodyfat, or an increase in muscle mass over time, as the tool remains the same, even if the actual numerical results are not entirely 100%. You will still see things go up or down and be able to identify good or bad results from it.
It's helped me for sure for as long as my goals were super oriented on body recomp. Nowadays I eyeball my diet/fitness a bit more but it's just because after 2-3 years of taking the fold, I just found my groove and memory serves in remembering roughly what my meals look like etc. We are creatures of habit after all.
Anyways good luck on your journey, slow and steady wins the race. Make life-long changes, build some strong habits (same daily meals, one or two choices of snacks on a rota, roughly same diet/same drinks, same schedule of exercise)...You will see, you'll get there. It's about changing your day to day little by little and forming new habits which are easy to slot in. In 2-3 years it'll all be in the noggin'.
Thanks fren. I was always a skinnyfat or at times chubby candy and soda kid and lost weight when I was older but consistency never stuck and now I'm back with the beer belly. I noticed I started slipping when I stopped weighing so I thought maybe something like this would be worth the money. I think I'm gonna go for it maybe one of the cheaper ones tho
you don't want to see, I was injecting testosterone 3 years, hairy arms like toothpicks and a doughy stomach
Haha.. does anyone remember how the wii fit board would groan and turn obese kids' miis into sad little fatties when they stepped on it? right in the middle of the birthday party?
>I was injecting testosterone 3 years
Why
I dunno how accurate either scale or caliper is if I’m basing the results of aesthetic expectations of this board. I have consistently gotten 13% bf for months, but I have never been able to show abs, even before when I was fighting and doing weigh ins after cuts I would look puffy around my stomach but vascular af on my arms and legs.
I’m more prone to believe that this board is full of body dysmorphic homosexuals that can’t comprehend somebody not showing abs at sub 15%, but I’m not certain.
Sub Q isn’t your total bodyfat % you also have visceral fat
Visceral doesn’t cover abs and calipers don’t measure visceral. According to caliper readings I’m at 13%.
I understand what you’re saying, but according to this board I should still be showing abs. Plus I’ve cut to sub 10% for fights before and barely showed my top 2 abs.
I wonder if you could get this as well as a smartwatch that measures body fat and use the different estimates to determine how lopsided you look
>electrical impedence
There is no electrical impedence in those things. You download an app, sync it to your "smart" scale, and it uploads your weight and compares it to the average and gives you an estimated BF%.
I have a eufy scale and it is literally the exact same cookie cutter smart scale in OP's pic. I gained a few lbs in weight (muscle) and it takes me from 10%bf to 19% despite there being literally no visible difference to my leanness.
I'm sure there exists some commercial scales that actually use the zap to check your real bf%, but if you're getting some cheap 50 buck "smart" scale for that purpose you are being conned.
>I gained a few lbs in weight (muscle) and it takes me from 10%bf to 19% despite there being literally no visible difference to my leanness
How do you become this delusional
Cope fatty, my weight went up, my bodyfat% didn't.
They are just normal scales that sell your data via the app, nothing more. Change your height or hold a weight and watch the bodyfat -estimate- change to hilarious numbers.
>I gained weight and this scale says my bf% went up even though I clearly only gained pure muscle
>Is it possible I am overestimating the effects of my exercise and diet?
>No, it's the multitude of engineers and scientists who have developed this technology who are wrong
I've got a Withings since about 2012 or so. Price was around $299 back then and it still holds up okay. Accuracy is similar to what describes.
i have a renpho too and i weighed myself with and without a 10 pound plate with the 10 pound plate it added 2% bf and i' around 11% 12%
The actual percentage it tells you is not accurate but they are accurate for measuring delta changes over time which is nice.
>delta changes
derivative
I bought the commercial Inbody one. Expensive as frick, and it's all over the place unless you're disciplined in your testing conditions. That being said, when you test under ideal conditions, it's pretty spot on, with maybe 1 lb or 1% bf difference from a dexa or way more expensive impedence scanner.
I'm gonna buy the chinese one from xiaomi because it's based
I have it, and it's shit. Im still using it for weight, but Im thinking about getting something else.
Lmao, one of the things I admire in chinks is that they're never afraid to call you out
>accurate, specifically on body fat percentage?
No. Bf is hard to get right, even paid inbody measurements can be little off
No. They're all over the place. If you get lucky, you might get one that's accurate with your current body shape.
Best to just use some calipers and do the math, or get one of the four-point ones (where you have handles too, so it can take 6 measurements instead of 1).
Hydration is also a big factor.
Calipers are like 2 dollars. Just check your skinfolds every month or so, it's not hard.
I remember a coworker with an average (european) body telling the table at lunch that his bf % was 4% according to his scale.
how is it "smart"?
does it ask your height, weight, waist, hip, midsection, shoulders, chest, neck, upper arm, fore arm, upper leg, calf circumference, blood pressure, heart rate
if it doesnt then its probably not accurate, because how does it come to any estimate?
also OP why do you care to know? its pretty obvious if youre overfat or excessively lean
It doesn't need to be 100% accurate as long as it is consistent. If it's off by 1%, then as long as it's off by the same 1%, you can still use it to track.
It's a real life iq test. You fail if you buy those.
bf℅ is a completely useless metric. If you don't have an at least barely visible sixpack under non-light-frauding conditions, you're fat.
this was kind of my thought process, I can see with my eyes that it's fat not muscle well enough and I know what my own lifestyle has been. I like the idea of tracking it basically, which isn't worth 40-50 bucks to me realistically... but a cheaper one that's not much more than a normal scale, idk I'm still thinking about it.
last time I lost weight and got down to where I wanted, it was with a lot of tracking weight and calories on myfitnesspal.
to modify my appearance (no good reason). stopped 8 months ago, and I barely move so I'm losing the muscle I barely had. it's inexcusable that I haven't been exercising in the slightest
For tracking the long term trend they're fine, just remember that electrical impedance has a +/- variation of 8-12% and that a lot of different things such as how hydrated you are or what you last ate can have a massive impact on the result. What's important for tracking is that you always measure the same way at the same time.
Yup, I have a smart scale with an electrode handle you hold that completes the circuit between your feet and hands, I always measure first thing in the morning after pissing before drinking or eating anything, butt ass naked, on the same part of the floor of my bathroom.
cop one of these
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