I never look at the athlete mode stuff. I want to see my full fatness 
Yep, so-called “athlete” mode == vanity mode.
Yury, looks like it’s in athlete mode. I had a similar Dexa and similar body fat when the scale was in the wrong mode.
you should still be able to perform at a pretty high level assuming your short power numbers aren’t very low. A very good mountain biker around here has similar W/kg as yours, Depending on the length of the climbs, you might see that everyone is going over threshold if they are relatively short. Depending on the grade of the road it might be completely unavoidable.
Think that’s me sold on the Garmin too. Hopefully the calendar expansions continue, but as of now, Connect is my main repository for all data. I was relunctant to go the Tanita or Nokia route and adding another app and still have to manually enter on connect.
Nope. Athlete mode was off. I’ve tried to turn it on, the scales showed 3% 
I guess I’m out of the bell curve of population where the scales and dexa match. Given that I have very similar complexion to sandilandscycles, I don’t really care about loosing weight and focus more on raising power.
As i said when i had Tanita in athlete mode i never measured at anything other than 5% … but now i switched it is consistently between … 6.1-6.6%
It can be confusing as at just shy of 6foot and 59-59.5 kg (130-131lbs) it is comparable or less than many pros - as you are … BUT i always feel awful comparing to pros as don’t want to seem complacent/smug etc.
I have now switched my drive to just focusing on :
- power gains (after Nate’s advice yday)
and
- making sure i get enough grams carbs per gg of bodyweight
hopefully we both see some power gains !! 
Does the Garmin have similar athlete/regular setting? Does it track to Tanita regular or athlete?
Does the Tanita scale measure bf% accurately below 5% ? On both normal mode and athlete mode I come up at 5.0%. I’m quite lean, always have been, but wondering if this means the scale doesn’t read below 5%. Ie. Maybe I’m less than that. Recently I got quite fatigued and a little burnt out. I’m wondering if too low body fat may be partly to blame.
I don’t know but it sounds like it does based on this forum…I’ve never experienced it 
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On athlete mode in 4 years I’ve always been 5% no more no less.
Switched to non-athlete on @Nate_Pearson ‘s advice on podcast. Now 6.1-6% … my feeling is that is influenced more by hydration than body fat.
I’m not really sure what to believe - would love a DEXA but hard to find in UK and not cheap.
I too am pretty lean - but not skeletal. Especially when compared to some of my old running team mates.
Hard to know what to think tbh.
After posting on here though - decided to just maintain weight and get power up plus MORE CARBS!!! 
Yes, I suspect Tanita scale doesn’t go below 5%, previous poster @yury noted a 3% measurement but it was a withings scale. I am in Canada, so also hard to get a private DEXA, regardless the BF% is low and I completely agree with focus on power not weight. I’m 5’10" 145lbs, with FTP of 271.
A concern of mine and thus a question for the group is advice on adequate nutrition to maintain power and not lose weight (Ideally not gain too much either). I don’t want this to sound trite. (yeah me, I can eat cake and Ice cream all day!!!) I try to eat a balanced diet, but when putting in hard weeks, the caloric need skyrockets and it’s hard to get it all in and not feel like you are stuffing yourself all the time. Any ideas on guidelines of carbs/proteins to avoid the burnout but not pack on extra pounds?
I was worried about this too. And so don’t worry about sounding trite- i do too - fully empathise.
i am 5’11, 130-1 lbs FTP probably around 250-55 atm.
I have realised you have to eat a LOT if you eat pretty clean food. (grains fruit veg etc)
I have always eaten food cooked from scratch and my meals (esp. post workout) look stupidly gigantic. BUT if it were ice cream and cake NOT quinoa and brown rice you wouldn’t need as much quantity i guess.
1 thing i found (and this is v much n=1) is that i actually run a caloric deficit of nearly 500-1000 cal a day but don’t actually loose any weight.
i have been using MyFitnesPal to track my calories for about 3-4 months and if anything i probably eat more than i log , it always says i am not eating enough BUT actually as long as i stay on topby feel if it kinda averages the same despite showing very negative totals.
I have started to believe your body kind of finds a homeostasis of sorts. But this is super individual.
Kenyan distance runners, (or even US collegiate distance runners running 100+ mile weeks) must have to so much … but actually sometimes its not as much as one thinks.
Thus my n=1 thoughts.
The big question is - with a mid teens Dexa are Nate’s abs comparable to Mr 17% up there?
Here’s an interesting one for ya. I picked up the Nokia scale a few weeks ago on sale, and have found it to be fairly consistent. On a particularly hot day, I decided to weigh myself before and after riding, to see how much water I lost, and how the composition measurements would be affected. Before the ride my numbers were: 154.3lb 14.2% BFP 81.5% MM 60.3% Body Water
And, after the ride (100 miles, on a 30c day): 149.6lb 12.3%BFP 83.3%MM and 62.3% Body Water.
How could my body water have gone up, when I lost 4.7lbs of hydration? Obviously the other results are all messed up as a result of the hydration levels, but I’m pretty confused about that water number. Maybe I don’t get how these impedance scales work?
@Nate_Pearson - So I guess this falls under feature requests. TR does Ride Sync with Strava, Garmin etc. As a Zwift and MyFitnessPal user I really like that they pull my weight from my Nokia Health Mate account. Any chance you could do this as well? I get on my Nokia regularly but updating in TR manually will take some memory…and I’m not getting any…look a squirrel.
Also topic related: Local supplement store 5 Star Nutrition does free body scans using an InBody system which they claim is 98% accurate. This system also uses impedance, although it’s not just through your feet but also through your hands. Has anyone used an InBody system and compared results to a Dexa? I do not have access to Dexa in my area. I asked my doctor as I know their group has a scanner but they will only do it to check for osteoporosis and it is NOT inexpensive.
Auto weight sync is on the long term roadmap.
Do you have Garmin Connect and MFP linked? I do and when I update my weight on MFP it gets pushed to Garmin. I wonder if Nokia can update MFP which in turn updates Garmin?
I do have MFP and Garmin Connect linked. I didn’t do Ride Sync on TR with Garmin Connect because I didn’t it to double import data as I have had with MFP. But perhaps TR is more sophisticated and won’t double up on an identical ride?
Either way I’m glad it’s in the TR roadmap to do.
I have Strava and Garmin connected to TR and it doesn’t double import. It does show that it was seen on both sources, but only one ride is imported. Might we worth a shot trying. Maybe @Nate_Pearson can comment further?