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Title: bathroom scales
Post by: tatoo on January 25, 2024, 12:23:28 PM: how accurate are they when it comes to bf, water, bone mass, blood volume, ect??... i was just looking for a run of mill scale on amazon and noticed some of these contraptions..not to mention the prices! any opinions? itd be nice if they were reliable.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: joswift on January 25, 2024, 12:24:21 PM: Quote from: tatoo on January 25, 2024, 12:23:28 PM
how accurate are they when it comes to bf, water, bone mass, blood volume, ect??... i was just looking for a run of mill scale on amazon and noticed some of these contraptions..not to mention the prices! any opinions? itd be nice if they were reliable.

theyre not
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: tatoo on January 25, 2024, 12:25:43 PM: Quote from: joswift on January 25, 2024, 12:24:21 PM
theyre not

thanks brother.. i figured lol.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: Grape Ape on January 25, 2024, 12:26:31 PM: Quote from: tatoo on January 25, 2024, 12:25:43 PM
thanks brother.. i figured lol.

The BF stuff is WAY off.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: robcguns on January 25, 2024, 12:29:23 PM: Yeah never seen one that’s accurate. Doesn’t make any sense to me how it could be.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: Rambone on January 25, 2024, 01:20:51 PM: Only members of Mensa get an accurate bathroom scale with their membership benefits. It has a bodyfat algorithm that you wouldn’t even believe if I told you.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: The Scott on January 25, 2024, 01:29:34 PM: Quote from: Rambone on January 25, 2024, 01:20:51 PM
Only members of Mensa get an accurate bathroom scale with their membership benefits. It has a bodyfat algorithm that you wouldn’t even believe if I told you.

Ah...But what if bhanky told him? ;D
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: The Scott on January 25, 2024, 01:32:06 PM: All my doctors have told me they're not very accurate but will admit that if I had one 50 years ago it would've been totally Trek.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: BB on January 25, 2024, 01:59:18 PM: There's no standardization among them. I remember reading that the Naval Bodyfat Calculator Measurements calculations perform better than the scales, and they are usually off by 1-3% BF for most people -

https://www.bizcalcs.com/body-fat-navy/ .
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: loco on January 25, 2024, 02:12:30 PM: Depends on how close to the toilet you place it, and whether or not you get pee on it.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: oldtimer1 on January 25, 2024, 02:39:11 PM: Those body fat scales are off the chart inaccurate. Especially if you're a lean athlete.

On a different note I keep my bathroom scale in the kitchen. Yes, I roll like that.
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: Taffin on January 25, 2024, 03:11:14 PM: Had a few electronic ones over the years, always came back to mechanical sort for one reason or another

If I won the lottery, I always wanted one of those really big old fashioned public scales with the visible workings

(http://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FBA9GBM%2Fthe-classic-large-imperial-metric-pay-to-weigh-scales-weighing-machine-BA9GBM.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=42f416cd93fb9bc9dcd7cb9859c5b49c44f8c7540430a6d1181305968b2eb454&ipo=images)
Title: Re: bathroom scales
Post by: Taffin on January 25, 2024, 03:13:34 PM: Quote from: oldtimer1 on January 25, 2024, 02:39:11 PM
Those body fat scales are off the chart inaccurate. Especially if you're a lean athlete.

On a different note I keep my bathroom scale in the kitchen. Yes, I roll like that.

:D

I used to do that when I was dieting hard to compete - stepped on the thing every time I wanted to cheat. That and the classic B&W pics of Berry DeMey on my fridge door helped me through some tough times LOL