So to probably contradict myself; I’ve got leaner and more muscle mass, i can even physically measure it, but my renpho is saying muscle, fat, etc is going up, which is unlikely in my opinion, so it is probably finding it hard to distinguish at lower levels.
By the way, I’m 65-66 kg and it says can 10%. Anyone else in the same boat?
Has anyone got a good comparison of accuracy between Withings and Tanita in NON-athlete mode for body fat % readings?
I think @Nate_Pearson might have mentioned he switched - so I wondered if anyone else had and how close they are?
i Just purchased the Withings scale to replace my Tanita as I like the idea of seeing trends over time and also the suggestion from the podcast of taping the screen and having it send to phone so only checking 1x per week etc. ie not obsessing too much.
For anyone interested in my n=1 of DEXA vs Tanita - I got my 1st DEXA a few weeks ago and my Tanita was exactly the same as DEXA to the decimal place!!! 7.0%
However the person doing the dexa did say as you get lower it tends to be less margin of error - less of a pendulum swing as it were…
Not sure if women generally get different readings but I did a comparison of several body fat calculation methods using myself as the test subject a few years back.
Results:
Navy method: 4 measurements plus height and weight - 22.3%
Accu-measure method: skin fold calipers, one site - 17%
Tanita scale: non athlete mode - 25.5%, weight 141.8 lbs
Taylor scale: athlete mode - 15.9%, weight 140.4 lbs
Zone diet BF calculator: 2 measurements, height and weight, activity level - 24%
Picture comparison: looking at pictures of different female BF % - 20%
Bod pod test: weight 141.0 lbs, body fat 20.0%, lean mass 112.8 lbs
OK, my self estimation method results ranged from 15.9% to 25.5%, with the professionally done bod pod result of 20.0%. So as you can see, the best free method I found for accurately estimating BF% is just looking at pictures of women with known body fat percentages to see which one most closely resembled what I look like, or just taking the high and low estimates and averaging them.
I got a DEXA scan about a year ago, it said I was at 19.9% while my Garmin scale in athlete mode said I was around 23%. My home scale readings are always about 3% high in athlete mode, non athlete mode is about 6% high.
@Nate_Pearson my question is what did you do during those first 2 months to lose 8 lbs of fat and gain almost 4 lbs of muscle? I assume there was weight lifting? What was your on the bike training like? My apologies if this has already been answered but I couldn’t find anything perusing through the thread.
Things that I did:
I don’t have comparison with Dexa scan but I had some model of Tanita and I have Withing right now. I had both for a while. My Tanita readings were lower in terms of BF but the difference wasn’t significant. Tanica ~9% Withings 10%. My nutritionist scale (I don’t know exact model but it’s some certificated body analizer) always from -1% to -1.5% in comparison with Tanita. But…I notice (at least for me) readings are different in different time of a day and other factors are significant too (amount and quality of sleep, what I ate before, how much water I drank etc.). So, again - at least for me - those scales are useful only to track trends and there is always some error rate.
Hi Nate,
Which Volume did you do in sweetspot base? I have just started ssb high volume 2 and do strenght training but do not know if it blocks my tr workouts (beacuse of fatigue etc). And which days did you do strengh?
Thanks in advance.
I think I started in high, failed, and moved to mid volume.
My first two times through high volume was killer.
Melatonin helps?
Have you tried tryptophan instead, I’ve heard it’s much cheaper and as good as melatonin?
Sorry, for offtopic!
I haven’t tried that.
Hello everyone,
I have question about scales. I have tanita bc730 and it has athletes mode but i just realized that i dont set it as a athletic mode on. So i always try to measure myself without athletic mode. I wonder does it matter?
Or is there anyone who can tell me the difference with normal mode and athlete mode? And as a cyclist who follows high volume plans, should i weight myself with athletes mode on or off?
The Omron body composition scales measure impedance through the entire length of torso and legs rather than just looping current through both legs. This may be more accurate than the Tanita and Nokia scales that don’t measure through the upper body. The price of the Omron scale is competitive with the others. Body Composition Monitor And Scale | 90 day memory
@Jonathan are you still using the Garmin Index? Any long-term feedback?
I bought the garmin s2 scale and threw a body fat of 21%, returned it and bought it again thinking it was a mistake and I threw the same result 21% body fat, activity level 8, then I realized an InBody and threw 9.2% body fat, that same day I did a DEXA and 7.1% body fat came out. I measure 1.75 and weigh 67k. I practice calisthenics and running. 39 years old. I think that the garmin s2 scale comes with problems because it seems that I am not the only one who had that problem, but garmin does nothing.