One for the medical experts......

JonVR46

JonVR46

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Hello 👋

Last Friday we had the routine occupational health bus visit, it was my first visit to the bus as I've only been working their about a month.

My quesion is: How accurate are the scales they used?

I stood on what looked like a fancy pair of weighing scales, with 4 metal discs embedded into it (flush with the frame).

I stood there in bare feet for 20 seconds, then it spat out, what looked like a supermarket till receipt ( at this point I felt like a packet of McVities Minty biscuits) with the following:
  • Weight (yes I get that one haha)
  • Fat %
  • Fat mass
  • Muscle mass
  • TBW????
  • TBW mass????
  • Bone mass
  • BMR
  • Metabolic age = 32 ( happy with that seen as I'm nearly 48)
  • Visceral fat rating
Is it accurate, as it seems amazing to me, that it can work all this out just by my size 10's standing on it :geek:
 
If it were me I would resign. What the feck has any of that got to do with your job.....unless you're an astronaut or a professional athlete.
 
With a user name like that maybe he is a professional motorcycle racer.
 
JonVR46 said:
Is it accurate, as it seems amazing to me, that it can work all this out just by my size 10's standing on it
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I don't know, but thinking about it someone MUST have at least put your height into the machine, or it had some kind of scanner firing all sorts up through your feet to measure all the other stuff.

As you say, it cannot get all of those details just from your weight alone.
 
I have a set of that kind of scale but you have to out your height, age and activity rating (O-5 with zero doing f**k all and 5 exercise at least 3 times a week for 45 mins or more.
I weigh myself once a month and as long its within 3kgs I'm happy and as I cycle at least 150miles a week I look more at my body fat %, which is about 16% and at the age of 55 I'm happy with that as if you google it athletic is 14.5%.
 
The pads do something electrically to work out all that stuff. I think when I set mine up it asks for your height in the app.
 
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