Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale
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Product Reviews of Omron Body Fat Monitor and Scale
Product Review: Good scale, junk fat monitor
Summary: 2 Stars
Scale comes within two pounds of other scales I know to be trustworthy. So far so good.
Scale reports my body fat as 17% higher than the caliper test, 14% higher than the navy test, and declares me obese. I'm far, far from obese. I've tried various times of day, before/after eating drinking, read the entire manual, I just can't get a consistent or remotely accurate fat measurement.
Product Review: Good scale, not good for body fat
Summary: 3 Stars
It performs well as a digital scale and seems to be pretty accurate and consistent. I ditched my cheaper digital scale because I could step on 3 times in a row and get 3 readings varying by 5 lbs in either direction. For the price, this scale is worth it just as a solid digital scale.
As a body fat calculator, however, it's ridiculously inaccurate and inconsistent. If you want body fat (to measure body fat, that is; not that you actually want more body fat), forget this thing. You'll have to pay more for that if you want it to work, I guess.
If you're just looking for a reliable and consistent digital scale, however, I think this one is pretty good.
Product Review: Good scale, uncertain body fat monitor
Summary: 3 Stars
The good.
As a scale, the device seems accurate and solid. This seems likely to be a durable scale.
Setting up parameters for estimating body fat was straightforward.
The not so good.
When setting up the scale, you are asked to enter your age and height (I am 58, 6', ~152 pounds, run 30-40 miles a week, not much spare fat anywhere; was a decent caliber distance runner when younger and am perhaps 2 pounds over my weight in those days).
Following the procedures, my body fat estimate was about 19.6%, which put me on the bottom end of the average range.
At a fitness center I visit occasionally, I used their body fat estimation system. The estimate was 10.5%, which is with 1-2 of what the trainers there would have estimated based on visual examination. That's a pretty serious discrepancy from what the Omron scale is indicating!!!!
The Omron manual indicates that readings for the elderly and the athletic (and perhaps I'm both) may not be accurate, but I would have expected something a little better than a 100% error. To try to circumvent this problem, I re-entered my age as 25. That still resulted in body fat readings of 15%. Now, I'm sure someone will say, "well, why the heck would you want a device to measure body fat anyhow when you are near 10%?" Well, it was primarily for other members of my family, and now the problem is we don't know how accurate it may be for them.
Now perhaps this device, assuming it is stable, can be considered a useful "relative" body fat indicator, such that if one is seriously working at making changes, perhaps the device will provide a good indication of that. Only time will tell on that one.
Product Review: Great BMI & Weight, not so good with body fat
Summary: 3 Stars
So I received my scale yesterday. I have a friend who bought another brand for $120+, which I would never pay for a scale. I setup my profile and stepped on the scale. I'm 27 yrs old, weigh 165lbs and I'm in decent shap (run regularly around 10+ miles/week).
My friend's scale has two modes for body fat %, an athletic mode and a normal mode (this one only has one). Under athletic, it reads I'm around 16% body fat. Under normal mode, it reads I'm around 19% body fat. This Omron scale says I'm 23% body fat. I'm sorry, but that's borderline OBESE.
If you are just looking for a weight & BMI scale, this will do just fine, but if you are buying this for the body fat monitor, skip this model and buy something more accurate.
Product Review: Great Scale
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm very pleased with this scale. Accuracy is very good and repeatable with both the weight and bmi and fat measurements. It looks good too.
The weight measurement is straight-forward. It took me a few minutes to understand how the bmi/fat measurement works(simple after you figure it out). But it was worth the time. Highly recommended.