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ratmonkey
Joined: 02 May 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: BMI scales, any good? |
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| Looking for reviews/experiences with fat % and weight scales. Brands,models, best value etc. Do they even work. Any comments appreciated. |
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Boss Man
Joined: 25 Nov 2006
Posts: 3604
Location: My site, (Steelmuscle), and anywhere else I feel like
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| BMI indexes are noted to be a bit innacurate, so buying something to measure them, could be potentially a futile spend of money |
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jd12
Joined: 27 Dec 2006
Posts: 133
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| bmi scales would be useless for your purpose and besides you can just find bmi calculators for free on the web... a bmi calculator only measures your weight per some unit of measurement (can't remember which one) so if you are very muscular with little fat it could show you as obese and if you're very fat with very little muscle mass it could mislead you into thinking you're in the healthy range or even underweight... |
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swanso5
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 6891
Location: melbourne, australia
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:13 am Post subject: |
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| do you mean body fat % scales???? |
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Joesportstalk
Joined: 27 Oct 2007
Posts: 90
Location: Las Vegas
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| in my humble opinion, this method is far outdated and something that should be thrown out as a viable method of body measurments. |
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stephaniejean
Joined: 22 Jul 2008
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| I have a body fat scale and I dont think it is accurate but when I have done skin calipers I have gotten way different results. Calipers are the way to go in my opinion. |
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