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: Omron Hbf-516B Full-Body Sensor Body Composition Monitor & Scale
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
Easier to set up than described in some reviews, easy to use after performing setup. Very accurate weight! Being aware of body weight etc scores seems to be an incentive to improve those scores. Have only used this monitor & scale a couple months, so cannot comment on durability. Very pleased with this Monitor & Scale performance and price as purchased on line.Customer Review: Excellent Body Fat Scale
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
If you allow for a bit of leeway in it's accuracy (my engineer husband and I think it's only accurate to plus or minus 1 percent) and note that the manufacturer didn't allow for the 1 pound handle (just subtract 1 pound from you indicated weight) this is a very good way to monitor your weight and changes in muscle mass when on a workout / weight loss program.Customer Review: This scale is incredibly cool!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This scale calculates so many things - it really is incredible! It helps my son and I stay on track and know when we're building muscle and losing fat. This is especially helpful when pounds don't go down, but the ratio's change. We love this scale!!! And, it was shipped promptly and was packed well.Customer Review: This is the Omron HBF 516B, and it's accurate and consistent
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
If the product page doesn't mention this, the scale is the Omron HBF 516B.
I've been using this scale since Feb. 2011 and I'm overall satisfied with it. Pros:
* Appears very accurate for weight: within 1% of what the scale at the gym showed last night, but that can be easily accounted for by garments or how much I had eaten.
* Appears very accurate for body fat - within 3.5% of two Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry body composition scans I did two weeks ago. Note that a deviation of 3.5% means that for body fat in the 20% area, a $60 DXA scan will give you a result of +/- 0.7% of body fat, vs. the scale. Also, I had the DXA tests two weeks ago, and variations may well have occurred within that time. I think the scale is again very accurate on measuring body fat.
After using this scale for two months, I can say that its accuracy is OK, but it won't help you in the short term. It's quite common for the scale to indicate 18% body fat in the morning and 20% in the afternoon. The point is you should use it under controlled conditions, at the same time of the day, a constant number of hours before/after a meal etc.. Also, expect changes in your body composition to develop over months, rather than weeks.
* I weighed myself 4 times, and got the same result 3 times, and 0.2lbs less one time. Therefore the scale appears to be highly consistent as well. After weighing myself while holding a 10lb dumbbell plate, the scale showed 10.2 more pounds. Who is right, the scale or the dumbbell plate manufacturer? It doesn't really matter. The scale's precision is around 0.1% (0.2lbs/160lbs).
* Calculates BMI (don't mind it much), body fat (the manual doesn't mention if this includes bone marrow, which can account for +0.8%), muscle percentage, visceral fat, Resting Metabolic rate, and body age. It got my age within 10% of the real age.
* Solid construction. No tilt whatsoever when you step with only one foot on it.
* Matte surface. Doesn't show fingerprints or foot marks. The monitor, though, is shiny and will show fingerprints. It also takes a few seconds to clean it.
* Easy to use once you've spent 10 minutes reading the instruction manual. The "On" switch can easily be pressed with your toe.
* Uses 4 standard AA batteries and comes with them included.
* Supports both metric and the idiosyncratic US measurement system.
Cons:
* Minus one star for not getting on the computer-integration bandwagon and providing a USB slot or wireless data upload feature like the famous Withings scale. However, if you don't obsess about your body composition, measuring it once a week makes recording data manually acceptable enough.
* The memory function is pretty primitive. For instance, if you weighed yourself but didn't get a chance to record the results, you can't view your last weight and body composition (!).
The problem with the Withings scale is that it doesn't use a full-body scan (it has no hand grips), and foot-to-foot scans are necessarily less accurate than the foot-to-palm scans in this Omron model.
Customer Review: Nice scale but is the BIA accurate?
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I recently purchased this scale and find that my body fat measurement is high by 8% versus the tape measure and caliper methods. I am more athletic than most and this is probably due to that fact.
The inaccuracy does not concern me as long as it is linear and I can use a correction factor to get the true value. I am in the process of losing fat (from 24% to about 10%) and do not have enough data points to know if this is true.
The scale is very easy to use and I really hope its BIA measurements can be trusted, lots easier than calipers that's for sure.
I rated it 4 stars on the assumption that it is a linear error and thus easily corrected for. I didn't give it 5 stars because the manual should have discussed the methods it uses to arrive at it's findings in more detail (some detail?, any detail?). I would like to know the method behind the skeletal muscle, visceral fat, and metabolic rate analysis.
Plus it tells me that my physical age is 80 years old (I'm 53)and that's just insulting.