Scales that measure body fat

[yosshimura]

Not really a section on the board where this post would exactly fit into, but you do work out to lower body fat.....

Anyway, I saw one of those scales that measure your weight and body fat at the store and on a link from fitday.com. It does say, not to be used for extremely fit people or athleates.....

How close is this machine to an actually using a body fat caliper? a couple percentages off or alot?

If no good, where online can I get a decent body fat caliper at a reasonable price? I want to stop looking soo much at weight and start looking more on BF %.

thanks

 

[BP66]

Dude, go with the calipers. They are more reliable, especially when you consider that the better the BF scale, the higher the cost. I believe, most of the scales use some sort of electrical impedence. It's not a bad measure, but that's not the best format for it. Plus, like you mentioned, when you are carrying a large amount of lean tissue, the results will often be inacurate. You can find calipers at a lot of places online, and they are normally pretty affordable. Try DPSnutrition.com. I think I've seen them there, but I'm sure there are plenty of other places on the web that will have them too. Good luck man.

 

[BatZgirl]

RE:

Dude, go with the calipers. They are more reliable, especially when you consider that the better the BF scale, the higher the cost.

I AGREEE

 

[njmuscle]

The bodyfat scales are (IMO) pretty much useless. The readings will vary widely, particularly depending on your hydration. My Tatana said (get this) 34.5% this morning. My "Fat Track" calipers said 16%. I used to be over 35%, I know what it looks like, and I'm NOT 34.5%.

 

[yosshimura]

I went with the calipers. I ordered them Fri from dpnutrition.

As for the scale I went with a digital. Seems to be a good manufacturere. Doing scales since the 1900 or 1800's or somethin like that.

Yeah, I realized for the same $ I would have spent on the scale / body fat scale, I just bought A good scale and A body fat caliper