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Title: Hand BF calipers VS Tanita digital BF scale?
Post by: jetcity on April 20, 2008, 07:06:36 AM

anyone tried these, and which's more accurate? i would think tanita digital scale but good ol' hand calipers never failed us either...

Title: Re: Hand BF calipers VS Tanita digital BF scale?
Post by: wes on April 20, 2008, 07:17:34 AM

(http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/Barrington%206112.jpg)

Title: Re: Hand BF calipers VS Tanita digital BF scale?
Post by: jetcity on April 20, 2008, 12:43:02 PM

Quote from: wes on April 20, 2008, 07:17:34 AM

(http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/Barrington%206112.jpg)

i'm gonna have to agree wit that! ;D

Title: Re: Hand BF calipers VS Tanita digital BF scale?
Post by: littleguns on April 23, 2008, 01:20:21 PM

both have serious chance of error, the scale has more error.

Stand on the scale, drink a glass of water and watch the % change drastically.

With calipers, people tend to pull too much/too little skin

Title: Re: Hand BF calipers VS Tanita digital BF scale?
Post by: AVBG on April 23, 2008, 01:26:31 PM

The scale is so way off the mark when calculating BF.