We are more sophisticated 
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It won’t double upload, you’ll get links to both Strava and Garmin.
Is there currently a way to see historical watts/kg? You display the current but I can’t access historical data?
These scales are really only accurate on total body weight measurements. The key to having the other measurements like MM, BFP, BW are to measure yourself under consistent conditions and compare them over time. I.e. I weigh myself first thing in the morning, with nothing on, and after going to the bathroom. This way, the conditions feeding into the body comp measurements are consistent and this allows me to draw meaningful information from the trends…
Brief comment known by many but not all: the Nokia scale was the Withings scale before Nokia bought Withings (including its other home and health monitoring devices). Nokia did virtually nothing with this suite (except perhaps make the app less popular and fall from being a market innovator to a lagger) and now the co-founder of Withings is buying back Nokia’s digital health business that was formerly Withings. In other words, my Withings scale from a few years ago is the same as the Nokia scale at Amazon today, and the Nokia scale today will be the Withings scale tomorrow once the acquisition is complete.
Yes, definitely. I use the scale only to find a trend line, and for that it seems very accurate. My day to day measurements which are performed first thing in the morning, and under consistent conditions seem to track as expected. My post-ride weigh-in was more just out of curiosity, to see how that level of dehydration would effect the readings. I still don’t understand the increase in body water though. It’s obviously an error, but a curious one.
No, not at the moment. We’ve got something designed but we haven’t hooked it up yet. I could see us revisit it once calendar settles down.
Great timing guys. After listening to Nate and company, I got my first dexa a couple days ago and am having some trouble accepting the results, I think it’s coming in way too high.
My scale says 10.3 % (regular mode), visual say 10-12% and the dexa says 20.5%!
Has anyone else seen this? Can a dexa produce bad results? 5’9, 146 lbs. If I took the dexa for real, then 8% would have me ~128 lbs which would be silly small.
DEXA is cruel 
Do you have a full six pack? I have a six pack (in good lighting and early morning…) and I came in at 14%.
My first dexa was just under 24%!!
how long after the ride? I thought I remember reading that the impedance reading will be off if you exercised recently.
@Nate_Pearson How’s the Tanita data compare to the Nokia? I had a wonky Tanita that I finally swapped out for said Nokia. But since my old data wasn’t really reliable, curious how you’ve found the two in comparison. (Trying to scale my Nokia data to DEXA based on your Tanita to DEXA)
Yeah. That works. That’s what I have setup. Nokia/Withings pushes to MFP, GC pulls from MFP. Doing that sync is the only reason i have an MFP account. DC Rainmaker had a post that talked about it ages ago.
Awesome, thanks for the confirmation.
I still haven’t brought it home 
. I do know that at 14% dexa the tanita and Nokia were the same. I’m traveling for three weeks now so I won’t have a chance to test for a while.
Okay, thanks!
Safe travels.
If I recall correctly, I stretched and then weighed in. So probably 15min after the ride. That’s interesting though, I wonder what it is that effects impedance after exercise. I suppose there are all sorts of changes that take place such as electrolyte levels, which could effect impedance, salt water conducts electricity much more efficiently then fresh water, so I suppose similar changes in conductivity would take place in the body as electrolyte levels change.
I do have a 6 pack (when flexing…) and some visible ribs. What I don’t get is the departure from my scale to dexa. You are (in absolute numbers) 1% ish off, I am 10% off.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I will re-do while visiting a buddy in Reno where the tests are $50 vs $100 in my area.
Thanks for posting all this stuff Nate!
You’re coming to Reno! 
If you schedule your DEXA at Reno Diagnostics on Sierra Rose you will use the same machine that we use.
Also, if you have time you should stop by our office and get some swag. We’ve got mugs, hats, shirts, bottles, and stickers. If you contact us we can give you a tour, if you drop it we can just give you the swag and say hi but we might have meetings and stuff.
BTW, this offer is open to anyone. If you do come to see us you have to:
- Tell us what you like about TR
- Tell us what you don’t like about TR
- Tell us what we should start doing at TR
- Tell us what we should stop doing at TR
Actually, this would be a good thread…
Thanks for the open invite and the Dexa info Nate!
I gotta figure out when the best time to come to Reno is (lack of smoke from fires + great riding), probably sometime in the spring.
I’ll send you an email with my answers for 1-4 as I don’t really want to take over a dexa thread with TR suggestions, but I do want to help as much as I can.
Interesting data point for me today. I have been using the Nokia/Withings scale for about a year. When I was in really good shape (for me), my weight had come down from 173 to 165 but my body fat (in non-athlete mode) was pretty consistent at 16.0-16.5%.
On Monday, my scale indicated weight of 167 and 16.5% body fat. I had my first Dexa today and total body fat was 9.76% (with weight of 167.1 lbs). I thought for sure it would have been high teens or even 20% based off of others’ experiences in the forum, but it was actually much lower.
Is there a case to be made for actually using the “athlete” setting with the Nokia/Withings scale? I plan to take a measurement in that setting tonight for comparison sake.
Happy that actual bf was much lower per the Dexa though! Seven pounds to go for what I think is ideal race weight between now and next August…
My brief experience with Athlete Mode in 2017 had body fat around 9.5% when regular mode was in the 16% range, so that is interesting to note.
For visual reference, do you have significant definition in your abs/heavy vascularity? 9.5% on the dexa is super low.