Taylor Body Fat Scale
I guess my wife loves me. I say this because she bought me a digital scale, a Taylor 5578 bodyfat scale to be specific. The scale is a Valentine’s present - actually a pre-Valentine’s day present since my 11 year old teenage son dropped enough hints for me to put two and two together.
It is a nifty little scale. Of course, it measures your weight and does so to the nearest tenth of a pound. Expect the results I post going forward to have numbers that resolve down to the tenth of a pound. I don’t know exactly how it does all the magic to report your weight, body fat and % of weight consisting of water, but it does. It does mention that your feet should be damp. I’ll quote how the body fat is measured:
This instrument uses BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis). BIA is one of the most accurate methods of measuring body fat. It simply sends a harmless signal through the fat and muscle in your body. This method calculates both your personal weight and body fat simultaneously, thus giving you a more accurate reading of your overall health and fitness.
To get that level of detail, you need to program in your height (to the nearest tenth of an inch), your age, your sex, and whether you are a “normal” person or an “athletic” person. For what it is worth, the manual that comes with the digital scale considers a person athletic if they do 10 hours or more per week of aerobic activity and has a resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute.
In the presence of the family, I stepped up on the scale and weighed 181.6 pounds. This was taken just after dinner with my running clothes on, sans shoes and socks. I’m not so sure I believe the report back that 21% of my weight is fat. The other number was 57% of my weight consisting of water. I’ll do what I always do in the morning and weigh myself with very little clothing and see if that body fat percentage changes.
Anyway, my wife orginally planned on putting the scale out before she goes to bed tonight and leaving a few pieces of candy on the scale. I guess she was planning on teasing me.
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I guess my wife loves me. I say this because she bought me a digital scale, a Taylor 5578 bodyfat scale to be specific. The scale is a Valentine’s present - actually a pre-Valentine’s day present since my 11 year old teenage son dropped enough hints for me to put two and two together.
It is a nifty little scale. Of course, it measures your weight and does so to the nearest tenth of a pound. Expect the results I post going forward to have numbers that resolve down to the tenth of a pound. I don’t know exactly how it does all the magic to report your weight, body fat and % of weight consisting of water, but it does. It does mention that your feet should be damp. I’ll quote how the body fat is measured:
This instrument uses BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis). BIA is one of the most accurate methods of measuring body fat. It simply sends a harmless signal through the fat and muscle in your body. This method calculates both your personal weight and body fat simultaneously, thus giving you a more accurate reading of your overall health and fitness.
To get that level of detail, you need to program in your height (to the nearest tenth of an inch), your age, your sex, and whether you are a “normal” person or an “athletic” person. For what it is worth, the manual that comes with the digital scale considers a person athletic if they do 10 hours or more per week of aerobic activity and has a resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute.
In the presence of the family, I stepped up on the scale and weighed 181.6 pounds. This was taken just after dinner with my running clothes on, sans shoes and socks. I’m not so sure I believe the report back that 21% of my weight is fat. The other number was 57% of my weight consisting of water. I’ll do what I always do in the morning and weigh myself with very little clothing and see if that body fat percentage changes.
Anyway, my wife orginally planned on putting the scale out before she goes to bed tonight and leaving a few pieces of candy on the scale. I guess she was planning on teasing me.
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now that you have been using the taylor bodyfat scale for a month, what do you think of it? i just bought one today and have read mixed reviews.
Comment by sandra — 12 April 2007 @ 7:35 am
Sandra,
The Taylor body fat scale works for me. I’ll be honest, I don’t use the body fat measurement ability of the scale. I don’t know if I really believe it (”do I really have that much body fat?”). The scale works fine. When I first used this scale, it said that my weight was lower by more than a pound from the previous day’s weigh in on the old analog scale. I got back on the old scale and sure enough I was about a pound lighter than the day before. One thing I have noticed is that results are accurate to two tenths of a pound (.0, .2, .4, .6, .8) not to the tenth of a pound (.0, .1, .2, .3, etc.) - seems odd.
Comment by admin — 12 April 2007 @ 8:22 pm