Omron Body Composition Monitor With Scale
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Description of Omron Body Composition Monitor With Scale
OMRON 1277722 Body Composition Monitor with Scale (EA)Sports reviews of Omron Body Composition Monitor With Scale
Customer Review: Great scale, excellent price
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I looked into purchasing a similar scale several years ago, but I couldn't justify the cost then ($300-$500). This scale is a great bargain. It seems very accurate for weight and BMI, but what I really like is the body fat percentage and the memory function. It gives me a method to compare what exercises and foods are really working for me. My wife loves the calculated body age. It says she's 24. It tells me I'm 63. That's just rude.
I'm also using an Omron HEM-719IT blood pressure monitor and an HR-100C pulse monitor. It would be nice to be able to download all the data together into the Omron Health Management software that comes with the HEM-719IT to track progress.
Boring personal background:
I'm 41 and my wife is 38. We were married 6 years ago and she/we had a baby 1.5 years ago. Our long working hours and commutes and being up all night with baby left us with zero energy and no desire to prepare proper food. We would skip breakfast, eat fast junk at lunch and pick up fast food on the way home or order pizza. With our aging metabolism and our sedentary home life with baby, we both packed on the weight. Five months ago we decided enough is enough. She started back to jogging and I started back to the gym and cycling. She's lost 25lbs and is back to her pre-baby weight. I've dropped 30lbs and have another 20 to go. Sound familiar?
Customer Review: Great Scale
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This scale is really great if you are serious about keeping track of your weight for health reasons. When you diet, most of the time, you are losing water or muscle, not fat. This type of scale shows you weight, BMI, Body fat (%), Muscle (%), estimate of calories burned in a day, visceral fat (around the belly) and an estimate of your body age based on those figures. This is a lot better than a normal scale because it helps you target fat, not water or muscle.
The scale is a little complicated to set up when compared to normal scales that you just step on. You actually have to open the manual to figure it out. But after the initial 5 minute set up, it is a piece of cake to use. Just tap the on button on the bottom, lift the handle, tap the user number and step on the scale. First it takes your weight, then it does the other measurements. It has a memory to show you where you started and where you are now for each measurement, but, even better is the template weight diary worksheet that included to help you keep track of your progress on paper.
The only thing that could make this better would be to have some kind of PC/Mac connection so you didn't have to write everything down.
If you can get over the high price, you'll love this scale.
Customer Review: Accurate and easy to use
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
We own this scale for a month. It was purchased to replace the German made Soehnle model Gamma. It was very attractive; however, it was not that accurate, because the weight depended on where the feet were placed on the scale. We also used another Soehnle model Piano, with four sensors instead of one. It suffered from the same problems of poor reproducibility.
Professional fitness evaluation at a Fitness Center focused our interest on body fat, body muscle, and on visceral fat. After asking around and searching the Internet we decided to purchase the Omron HBF-516. Programming the scale was easy as the instructions were clearly written. We were pleasantly surprised that the body fat, body muscle, and visceral fat results on the Omron scale matched the results of the professional evaluation.
After one month of use we are very satisfied with this scale. It's easy to use and gives a self-esteem boost when following the results of our low carb diet.
Customer Review: This Scale Gives Excellent Information To Keep You On-Track With Your Fitness Goals!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I use this one and another excellent set of scales. There is probably .5 lb difference between the two, but they have different advantages. This one may be my favorite, because I can compare my results with 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, etc.
I'm particularly interested in building muscle and of course when you do that, your weight goes up, you may panic and think things are going poorly, when they aren't. I don't pay as much attention to the weight as I do the other factors. Am I building more muscle? Is my fat % going up, down, or staying the same? Some of that 'weight gain' may be muscle, which is heavier than fat.
Scales that show me more than just weight keep me accountable and don't make me crazy when I gain a pound or two, as long as one of the more important indicators are improving, fat%, muscle growth, etc.
I recommend this scale. I use it every day. It helps me reach my fitness goals.
Customer Review: It kept me on track and I lost over 50 pounds with it's encouragement
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I have used the Omron full body sensor HBF-514C for 5 months. It has given me the feedback which has both encouraged me and educated me as my body has changed. I am 6 foot tall and have maintained a reduced calorie intake of 1400 calories for over 6 months. My scale age has dropped from 80 to 71. My Viscualar fat down from 20 to 12. I have dropped 30 pounds of fat while only losing 3 pounds of muscle.
This tool makes it possable to track numbers like I have. Are they completely accurate? I don't know but my fitness coach at 24 hour fitness thinks it is much more accurate than the pinch test! I know the changes in the numbers as I monitored my progress has been a major motivator. When my body weight was not decreasing I could see that I was developing muscle as I lost a corresponding amount of Fat!
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