e: Re: Tanita Scale for Body Fat Measuring

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The scale gives you a definition of athlete mode which is someone who

works out 10 hours or more a week and who has a resting heart rate of

60 beats per second. They don't give you a definition for

professional athlete or bodybuilder. I am assuming it is someone who

works out ALL the time (as their profession maybe).

Wow, according to Tanita's charts 15% bodyfat is way underfat!!! I

think that 22% and up is considered healthy on the charts that they

show... BMI is entirley different than body fat, isn't it??? That's

just a number that is calculated from height and width, right?

There isn't any indication of muscle with BMI, right?? Please

correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just what I thought anyway.

I don't know what to tell you if the you think the scale is right for

you or not. It is suppose to be as accurate as the underwater

measuring (sorry, don't know the exact terminology). So far, it has

been pretty consistent w/ it's measurements. One of my friend's

weighs ten pounds less than I do, is an inch taller than I, but has

almost ten percent more body fat than I do. Another friend weighs

about 2 lbs less than I do, we are the same height and she had almost

20% more body fat!! It's truly amazing to me how it works and how

much more muscle weighs than fat. Everybody is so right about saying

the scale means nothing!!

Let me know what you decide on the scale

Darcy who hopes that this e-mail isn't too oddly written....

> Does the scale info give you a definition of professional athelte

or body

> builder? Or an example of body fat percentage? Using two different

BMI

> methods on the interent I'm anywhere from 17-21% and I haven't

worked out in

> 2 years. Normally, when I workout consistently, I'm at about 15%.

I played

> competitive soccer and competed in gymnastics growing up and after

that I

> lifted weights and worked out until recently, so my body fat has

always been

> towards the lower end.

>

> My boyfriend is a bodybuilder and he often would get incorrect

results from

> some of the free methods at our gym, so he finally quit trying

them...sure

> can mess with your head <G>.

>

> I used to be a scale addict so I'm not quite sure the Tanita is a

good

> choice for me anyway, so I want to be sure to research the

technique ahead

> of time. Thanks for all your info and help with this.

>

> Colleen, who's goal next year is to get back to 15% body fat

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