But I think that distribution is pretty typical for male and female: belly and thighs respectively
I’m not totally against navel gazing but wow, just wow. Enough already… go ride your bikes!
Hi @Nate_Pearson . I’m planning to upgrade my 10 year+ scale with fat/water/bone etc to a newer.
Would you suggest either Tanita og Nokia or something else?, i will pay extra for better/best fat percent meassurements.
I don’t know how accurate they are, I’m just hoping they are precise.
Personally, I like the Nokia more because it syncs to my phone and I can see trends.
Got a DexaFit scan a few weeks ago and was a little bummed that my BMI and fat percentage was so high but also unsure of the accuracy. It had me at 30% fat with me being 163 lb at 5’11.
I got the Nokia scale or Withings that they recommended to help track changes over the off season. The Withings has me at 163 lbs and 20% fat. Athlete setting is off but I’m just going use the numbers as a way to track and get another Dexa in about 4 months.
Anyone have any issues w/ their Dexa and a scale being way off from one another?
It’s been a productive off-season. Biggest learning for me is that my body responds really quickly to a bit of strength work.
It feels so strange to say, but I’ve probably reached an optimal body composition for my goals. There really isn’t much more to do from a fat loss perspective and I’d like to be able to maintain the volume I’ve been doing without getting sick (I’ve put in 700-800 TSS the last few weeks)
Is this a decent scale, and how accurate can the bodyfat measurements really be using something like this?
I’m having a decent offseason and my dexascan results are what I was hoping, more muscle, less fat right? I don’t want to make anybody cry here but the local place does these for $50…and $35 for subsequent scans. It certainly makes checking once or twice per year pretty easy.
But I do want to complain about BMI. I mean, I’m a skinny dude and my body fat is in the lowest 4% of all guys, lowest 1% of 51 year old guys. So BMI saying I’m overweight is…slightly maddening LOL
Also, my
gain in lean muscle is partially…maybe completely…due to creatine supplementation, I have been doing this in the fall and winter for the last couple of years.Joe
Just got one of these smart scales so I can start having daily data. Not sure how accurate the other metrics are but it says I have high muscle mass so that’s good if true I guess
Forget BMI, you’d know if you were overweight, obese etc.
Creatine didn’t build your muscles, your hard work did.
Damn 10.2% I wish…
Creatine didn’t build your muscles, your hard work did.
Not to be pedantic but creatine allows more hard work volume so it’s really a combination
I appreciate a pedantic comment as much as any forum poster. So while it is true that creatine has positive effect on strength training, it only adds when led by the hard work of strength training.
BMI should really have no place in serious discussions. From the formula, once you have set your height (which presumably won’t change much ) it moves in direct proportion to your weight, and so you may just as well track your weight, which you do anyway. BMI is simply a device by which broad segments of the population may be linked to obesity based on statistics, and well-trained people (like most of us here) tend to have skewed statistics (more muscle, less fat) leading to a misleading excess weight (since muscle is heavier than fat). Even many doctors appear to be ignorant about the true nature of BMI (they think it’s some kind of clever and complicated formula, and they stop thinking).
I have this one. I’ve heard of some surprisingly accurate correlations with dexa comparisons. Like all that’s been said though, trends are most important. Mine logs me currently at 10 something BF, and I’m not pretty lean, so it seems relatively ok ballpark-wise.
I couldn’t agree more. As you say, it’s a liner scale…which is not how objects get heavier as they get larger. If you are 5’ tall you can have a normal BMI and be quite a fireplug. If you are 6’ 6" tall you have to be a serious bean pole to be in the “normal” range.
I guess I’m just amazed at how this concept of BMI having significance has grabbed hold.
Joe
turned my new Withins off of Athlete mode. Said 6.8% body fat which i know isn’t correct; Normal mode has me at 13%. Some work to do!
I’ve found that normal mode tracks pretty close with Dexa until you get to between 11-12% and then it starts to struggle.
My scale was reading 11% and the Dexa came out at 9.3% so I’d double check when you lose the couple extra pounds since it’s possible to overshoot.
thanks for the tip!!
Just got an updated dexa today. Last one was in August and I was at 18.1% bf. I gained 1 lb, but down to 16.7% bf. I put on 3 lbs of lean mass and lost 2 lbs of fat. My withings scale had me at 16.5% bf, so pretty much dead on (probably just lucky).