Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
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Product Reviews of Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
Product Review: Innerscan Success
Summary: 4 Stars
The Innerscan Body Composition Monitor does everything it says it does. I especially like the personalized settings. This makes it convenient for my daughter and myself to use the monitor and retain our personal information. The only problem I have is in reading the display screen. The numbers are large enough, however, not dark enough for me to read easily.Product Review: It's OK
Summary: 3 Stars
Not very easy to use. Difficult to dicipher the readouts when standing up. If you get off to read, you can only get a couple of readings. Moving changes the readings. You really have to get off and on a couple of times and be ready to take the readings on the spot and then weigh in again. Then the manual tells you that some of the readings may not be valid. Looks nice; gives your weight. Don't expect a whole lot more.Product Review: It's not so bad that the initial readings are not accurate:
Summary: 1 Stars
A fat pecentage reading doesn't have to be truly -accurate- to be valuable, as long as readings are -consistant-. How fat you supposedly are is just a number; if the machine reads out '30' when it should readout '40', that's ok, as long it goes up or down proportionately, according to whether you gain or lose fat.
This scale is all over the map, no help at all, neither accurate nor consistant.
Product Review: It's ok
Summary: 3 Stars
I was fairly disappointed in the scale. The body fat % is pretty far off from a caliper test. If you just want to know if you are losing body fat it's ok, but if you want to actually know your correct body fat it's off by a few degrees. Also, there are so many restrictions as to when you can weigh in if you want an accurate measurement. Not until after 3 hours after waking, 3 hours after eating, 3 hours after exercise. Since I eat every 3 hours and exercise often it's almost impossible for me to find a time. I am using their suggestion of right before my evening meal which does seem to give me a body fat % close to my caliper measurement but it gives me a higher weight total because I have been eating during the day.
Overall it looks nice and the weight itself seems to be right on compared to my other scale. I don't use the other buttons much because they always read the same thing. And I wouldn't trust the calorie counter that lets you know how much you can eat in calories to maintain your current weight - mine was off by 500 calories per day!! With that I would have been gaining a pound a week.
Product Review: Keep Track of Important Measurements
Summary: 4 Stars
I found the Tanita BC533 a very useful and easy way of keeping tabs on important body measurements. The instructions are easy enough to follow and the measurements take less than a minute to see. I think any one who is serious about health and fitness will find this monitor very useful.